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Pantone802 t1_j1c8ryq wrote

I heard these loud noises, came here looking for answers. My first thought was they were too much of a “bang” to be gunshots. And they sounded really far away to me, I’m at the top of West Passyunk, or the bottom of Point Breeze. Air moisture carrying noise from the river? Just heard another bang as I typed this at 12:48am.

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mklinger23 OP t1_j1c8wsl wrote

Just heard another followed by blood curdling screams...

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mklinger23 OP t1_j1c92k0 wrote

I was really hoping it was fireworks and it really sounded like it but then the screams are unsettling.

I'm definitely it going outside to check

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K3R3G3 t1_j1clk6i wrote

I don't want to discourage looking into things - and I'd be curious, too - but typically with gunshots, you're not going to have them spaced out like that.

If a shooting takes place, the parties involved almost always: 1) leave immediately and go anywhere else but there, 2) die or get into an ambulance , 3) get arrested.

Highly unlikely for there to be a 10+ minute gap.

"I shot this person. I have decided after having a sandwich that I would like to shoot this person again. No one has come to stop me."

Or

"I shot this person and peeled out, but decided to come back 10 minutes later to the scene and pop off a few more."

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mklinger23 OP t1_j1d95kk wrote

Yeah I know. The reasons I wanted to look into it were that It seemed to be moving. So I thought people might have been chasing each other or something. But the main reason is I heard a bunch of screams. Like really scared screams.

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K3R3G3 t1_j1d9ysw wrote

Screaming can be unnerving and obviously good to check on. Universal sign of distress. I have also seen adolescent/teen girls in groups shrieking in a distressed manner, but they were just running around acting wild. I'm not a fan of such false alarm screaming. Boy who cried wolf and all that.

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mklinger23 OP t1_j1dabyd wrote

Yeah I've seen that before too. People just screaming for fun. I'm glad it wasn't anything serious. I honestly thought it could have been a drunk driver crashing into shit on broad or something because it didn't quite sound like fireworks and it didn't sound like gunshots either until I heard the screams.

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