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deviant-joy t1_j2hijeb wrote

Reply to comment by DisciplineShot2872 in Happy silent hill new year by miklawbar

Out of curiosity, which neighborhood and when? Curious to know if some of the fireworks I heard weren't actually fireworks.

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ell0bo t1_j2hujmi wrote

Up I'm brewerytown, it sounded like people were popping off rounds in the park around kelly drive. I sure hope they were blanks

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rushrhees t1_j2l08f3 wrote

Blanks require a heavily modified gun those were most likely real

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DisciplineShot2872 t1_j2ie1hp wrote

Wissinoming. Between 12:30 and 1:30. It wasn't just the audible difference. I could see them doing itnout my windows. I found a bunch of brass on my morning dog walk as well. At least now I know what set off my car alarm last night after finding it surrounded in 9mm casings.

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ColdJay64 t1_j2j03q0 wrote

No one called the cops during an hour of gunfire? If they had, wouldn’t the casings have been recovered?

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DisciplineShot2872 t1_j2j2i5y wrote

It was sporadic, not non stop, and was coming from multiple points throughout the neighborhood. Without anyone getting hit, there's not much for the police to do and im dubious theyd get out of their cars if they showed up at all. Shell casings don't tell you much beyond caliber and brand. I'm unaware of any way to even determine how long they'd been out there.

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ColdJay64 t1_j2jao8o wrote

So all this happened and you didn’t call, and they didn’t respond at any point? I’m seriously not attempting to be a jerk at all, this just doesn’t make sense if the area was a “warzone” for an hour. I know they are bad about showing up to calls but an hour of sporadic gunfire anywhere in the city would prompt them showing up, especially if there are victims, which is incredibly likely given that amount of activity. I know if it were my street - I’d call until they showed. Maybe and hopefully it was mostly fireworks.

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DisciplineShot2872 t1_j2jclq0 wrote

They never showed up. Either nobody in the neighborhood called, or they just didn't come. There's brass all over the neighborhood. There were at least 100 shots fired that I could count.

There was a fatal shooting the next block up a few weeks ago. Police were called. In the interim, I ran up to attempt first aid. It was clear the victim was past first aid. The victim's girlfriend was standing in the street screaming holding a gun that she had used to return fire. I talked her out of the gun and safed it before the cops got there, so nobody else got hurt. Probably not my wisest moves ever, but here we are.

When the cops and medics did turn up, they went the wrong way and ended up two blocks away, facing the wrong direction and just milled around confused until someone went down and screamed and pointed them in the correct direction. When they finally got to where they needed to be and secured everything, I talked to them about the gun I'd handled, with neighbors jumping in to corroborate. Due to previous government jobs my prints are in the system and I wanted to let them know why they were on a gun of unknown providence and use. They took my ID and all my information. And never contacted me.

So, I'm seriously unimpressed, and with everything else going on all over they city for last night, random aerial gunfire in the Northeast seems to be a low priority.

Maybe in Mt. Airy, Society Hill, or Rittenhouse Square the result would have been different. I don't know.

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DisciplineShot2872 t1_j2jmbj1 wrote

I want to make it clear that while I'm a newcomer here, I love this city and the people. I feel far less unsafe than when I lived in rural Arizona (and that fear wasn't the border, it was the anti-goverment nuts that threatened me on a regular basis). Other than an exciting trip to a shipping store in Kensington one day I've never felt like there was a threat, and even there it was clearly a mental health issue that can happen anywhere.

I like my neighborhood and the people here. I just don't like guns being fired into the air to "celebrate". I didn't like it in Arizona and even less so here where there is a higher risk of harm from falling bullets. But it's something I've never seen the police do anything about, in L.A., Tucson, rural areas, or anywhere else. There's just too much else to do unless someone is getting hit. I'm still pretty jumpy about gunfire because of the incident a few weeks back, and that didn't help. Seeing one of my neighborhood friends standing out in the alley blazing away at the sky was disconcerting, but calling the cops was unlikely to accomplish anything.

Heck, I'd almost forgotten that in late summer someone fired off a bunch at about 6am. I heard the neighbors call. With no one hit, it took hours for the cops to arrive. Because no one was hurt I just shrugged it off.

Fortunately none of the rounds fired off into the air here last night seem to have hit anyone on the way down, since none of the nine shootings last night were near here. Again, I love this city, and the neighborhood, but I could do with fewer guns.

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