drabley Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Shots were just fired in our neighborhood and one took out the french doors in our kitchen. Just missed my roommate by, literally, inches. The bullet wound up in the dining room, just a few feet from where we were all sitting waiting for the Packers game to start. It was a big round too; 45 cal, so someone was out to do some damage. Crazy. We live in a pretty ritzy neighborhood, so the cops think it was from one of the shitty neighborhoods a few blocks over. Fucking thugs and their guns. Should all be rounded up and sodomized with a rifle. Time for a beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Holy shit haha. Crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I wouldn't rule out the possibility they were aiming for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaminrthreat Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Fuck...glad you're okay. Bummer about the door... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I wouldn't rule out the possibility they were aiming for you. I have an alibi, I swear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I wouldn't rule out the possibility they were aiming for you. I have an alibi, I swear! C'mon...we all know you would never shoot anyone/thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 GO PACK GO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 We live in a pretty ritzy neighborhood, so the cops think it was from one of the shitty neighborhoods a few blocks over. If there's a bad neighborhood within shooting distance from your place, you live in a bad neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 We live in a pretty ritzy neighborhood, so the cops think it was from one of the shitty neighborhoods a few blocks over. If there's a bad neighborhood within shooting distance from your place, you live in a bad neighborhood. This is true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burdenx Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I found this lady's purse and wallet and stuff all over my backyard and also the guy's white shirt: http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_17150290?source=most_viewed Why did I buy a house here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 If there's a bad neighborhood within shooting distance from your place, you live in a bad neighborhood. This is true. False. The range of a handgun is well over a mile and depending on the gun / munition, it may be closer to 2 miles. Don't know of any urbanized area that has a 2 mile radius as a buffer zone between good and questionable neighborhoods. In New Orleans, where wealth and poverty are, literally, side by side, you're lucky to have a few blocks as a buffer. Nice try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I wouldn't rule out the possibility they were aiming for you. I have an alibi, I swear! If Jack McCoy taught me anything, it's that fast food joints never stand up as alibis in a court of law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Drabs, you and I have kind of lost touch and, in all sincerity, this thread has made me miss you very much. You gave shit to Scott, made an educated and informed statement about urban living, and threw in a Law & Order reference...all in one thread. You are one of my favorite humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Somebody was just murdered this afternoon outside the smoke shop down the street from my apartment. Broad fucking daylight. People are insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 This is true. False. The range of a handgun is well over a mile and depending on the gun / munition, it may be closer to 2 miles. Don't know of any urbanized area that has a 2 mile radius as a buffer zone between good and questionable neighborhoods. In New Orleans, where wealth and poverty are, literally, side by side, you're lucky to have a few blocks as a buffer. Nice try. False. A handgun bullet, by in large, will travel less than a mile (a rifle is another story). That being said, in an "urbanized area", the odds are that the bullet is likely to be hit something long before even going 50 yards much less a mile. You live in a bad neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/DomnaAntoniadis.shtml also, how many times have i told you not to die, bradleyyy?! this was cutting it pretty close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 False. A handgun bullet, by in large, will travel less than a mile (a rifle is another story). That being said, in an "urbanized area", the odds are that the bullet is likely to be hit something long before even going 50 yards much less a mile. You live in a bad neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaminrthreat Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Yeah, I don't know anything about how far a bullet will fly, but I can't imagine it not hitting something before it flies that far unless you're in an open area. Just because a bullet came through his door doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad neighborhood, though. Assholes make their way into nicer neighborhoods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 False. The range of a handgun is well over a mile and depending on the gun / munition, it may be closer to 2 miles. Don't know of any urbanized area that has a 2 mile radius as a buffer zone between good and questionable neighborhoods. In New Orleans, where wealth and poverty are, literally, side by side, you're lucky to have a few blocks as a buffer. Nice try. False. A handgun bullet, by in large, will travel less than a mile (a rifle is another story). That being said, in an "urbanized area", the odds are that the bullet is likely to be hit something long before even going 50 yards much less a mile. You live in a bad neighborhood. You are making numerous assumptions and sweeping generalizations with little knowledge base. Odds are against lots of things, yet they still occur. How do you explain that? I live in a 4000+ square foot home on one of the more affluent streets in the city. The house consistently appraises in the upper six figures, some neighboring ones have breached the seven figure mark. 4 doctors live on my block. Adjacent is an investment banker that makes more money in an hour than most of us will see quarterly. His home (which isn't even his primary residence; he keeps it for his children to use when they are in school) is one of those seven figure houses. Bad neighborhood? Really? And we're speaking on a micro level -- let's push it up to macro levels. There are numerous countries in the world that possess weaponry that could vaporize ANY city in the United States before almost all of us could scratch our balls and figure out what's going on. By your logic, we ALL live in bad neighborhoods. Odds are against that happening, but odds were against 9/11. Is Lower Manhattan a bad neighborhood? Again, nice try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j4m35 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 i've lived in three different neighborhoods that varied from high seven figure homes to low six figure condos, and there have been comparable amounts of violence in each one. if you live in a city, you are going to have gun-related issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 there's a neighborhood in the city, a couple miles from me called Allison Hill. when i was a kid, i always thought that was the coolest thing ever and wondered why we didn't live there until i realized that if we lived there, i would probably get a bullet for my 8th birthday instead of that my little pony i wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest markovianprocess Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I wouldn't rule out the possibility they were aiming for you. I like drabley, but this made me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxmartinxx Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 You are making numerous assumptions and sweeping generalizations with little knowledge base. Odds are against lots of things, yet they still occur. How do you explain that? I live in a 4000+ square foot home on one of the more affluent streets in the city. The house consistently appraises in the upper six figures, some neighboring ones have breached the seven figure mark. 4 doctors live on my block. Adjacent is an investment banker that makes more money in an hour than most of us will see quarterly. His home (which isn't even his primary residence; he keeps it for his children to use when they are in school) is one of those seven figure houses. Bad neighborhood? Really? And we're speaking on a micro level -- let's push it up to macro levels. There are numerous countries in the world that possess weaponry that could vaporize ANY city in the United States before almost all of us could scratch our balls and figure out what's going on. By your logic, we ALL live in bad neighborhoods. Odds are against that happening, but odds were against 9/11. Is Lower Manhattan a bad neighborhood? Again, nice try. No, you're right, someone shot a gun two miles away and it hit nothing, yet went through a wall (or a window or something), continued through the house and hit a french door. That sounds completely reasonable. I'm not suggesting that random gun violence doesn't occur, I'm suggesting that your apartment isn't in as safe an area you'd like to believe based on your own statements. And I'm also busting your balls. But seriously... move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseydave77 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 if you live in a city, you are going to have gun-related issues. Good Point. I moved to Brooklyn in 2002. We had three shootings within 2 blocks of my apartment in the first 6 months I lived there. I didn't have another such incident in the next five years I was in the same apartment. In some areas there is a random nature to these things. I'm glad you weren't hurt though - that is scary stuff and anything that violates the sanctity and safety of your home makes it even worse. Years ago I witnessed an attempted drive-by in Atlanta while sitting outside of the Hot Water/Leatherface/Panthro show before it started. I still recall it as one of the more frightening moments of my life as it was 30 feet away. Thankfully they missed the guy and we dodged being witnesses to a murder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 What the fuck, man?! It went through the french doors in our kitchen that go to the back porch. We live in a temperate climate and do not need 6" thick freezer doors to insulate us from the elements, so external french doors suffice. The bullet then ricocheted in the kitchen, made it into the dining room, and landed a few feet away from where were sitting in the living room. Whether you care to believe what happened or not, that's the way it went down. The cops said that given the trajectory, the amount of time it took from the gunshots to the time of impact (about 5 seconds), and the line of sight surrounding our property, there was no other explanation than it was a fallen shot from afar. Shit happens all the time. January 1, 2010: A 4-year-old boy was killed shortly after midnight while sitting in church during a midnight service in an Atlanta suburb. The cause of death was thought first to be due to falling ceiling debris until an autopsy confirmed an intracranial bullet injury to be the culprit. How fucking likely is that??!! It happened. It happens more than you think. So fuck off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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