Another Shooting in my Neighborhood Last Night

[InternetTuffGuy]

Got a call from my wife last night while working. A few blocks up squad cars had all the intersections blocked off and caution tape was up. Found out shortly after that there was another shooting in our neighborhood. That's the second one in the last two months. I also noticed this summer that there's a bullet hole through the backboard of a basketball hoop in a playground across the street from my house. It's at an angle where it's in the direction of my house. Getting sick of this kind of thing. Last summer the police arrested a teenager at the playground with a pistol. He was 13. I live in a city of roughly 125k people. Last year there were something like 17 shootings reported. That number had doubled this year by June. Crazy how times are changing.

[ChazWood]

We recently had a shooting incident here, too. Scary stuff! A block from where I live, some punks with slingshots took out 3 street lights. The Mounties were on the scene within minutes, but by then the punks had already run off. On the news they said the Mounties have no leads on the suspects or idea of the motive.

I've heard about this sort of thing happening in other neighborhoods, but it's unsettling when it happens where you live. It's getting so bad, people are considering locking their doors.

[TubbyDad]

We recently had a shooting incident here, too. Scary stuff! A block from where I live, some punks with slingshots took out 3 street lights. The Mounties were on the scene within minutes, but by then the punks had already run off. On the news they said the Mounties have no leads on the suspects or idea of the motive.

I've heard about this sort of thing happening in other neighborhoods, but it's unsettling when it happens where you live. It's getting so bad, people are considering locking their doors.

Crazy eh? I heard the Tim Horton's Slingshots-for-Donuts program has been pretty effective though.

[ChazWood]

Canadien Mounties wear crotchless pants so that they can have unprotected buttseks with each other.

and their horses.

Don't get me started on the Mounties!!!

[InternetTuffGuy]

try living back gate Oceanside....

ask any marine or ex marine...

this place has been a jungle for the last 30 years

I grew up in a little Iowa town. Shootings didn't happen where I grew up. Now I've moved to a larger area and it's new to me. I cannot imagine living in a place where it's an every day occurance.

[MrBungle11]

We recently had a shooting incident here, too. Scary stuff! A block from where I live, some punks with slingshots took out 3 street lights. The Mounties were on the scene within minutes, but by then the punks had already run off. On the news they said the Mounties have no leads on the suspects or idea of the motive.

I've heard about this sort of thing happening in other neighborhoods, but it's unsettling when it happens where you live. It's getting so bad, people are considering locking their doors.

Sounds like where I live, I left the car unlocked last night because I was too lazy to go outside and lock it. Still there in the morning and I saved 0.5 seconds from having to unlock it again.

[baker]

Most cities have shootings daily. But guns aren't the problem, right?

[Brackneyc]

Most cities have shootings daily. But guns aren't the problem, right?

And in other news...spoons found to be driving obesity.

[MrBungle11]

And in other news...spoons found to be driving obesity.

Finally eating with my hands is paying off!

[Brackneyc]

Finally eating with my hands is paying off!

Be careful, you don't want to get too lean. Removal of spoons has been known to cause widespread fitness and an overall sense of safety and well-being.


Those not allowed to possess spoons will often tout the benefits of not being "allowed" to have them.

[deadwoodgregg]

And in other news...spoons found to be driving obesity.

Well that's just great. Now Obama and Harry Reid will be waging a war against my silverware.

[Brackneyc]

Well that's just great. Now Obama and Harry Reid will be waging a war against my silverware.

But it will be for the good of the order, so no one fight it.

[MrBungle11]

Well that's just great. Now Obama and Harry Reid will be waging a war against my silverware.

We're all forked!

[Mobraelite]

Wait a minute OP


If we banned guns then 13 yr olds and others would never get their hands on them


It's a simple enough fix relax

[bodyhard]

Got a call from my wife last night while working. A few blocks up squad cars had all the intersections blocked off and caution tape was up. Found out shortly after that there was another shooting in our neighborhood. That's the second one in the last two months. I also noticed this summer that there's a bullet hole through the backboard of a basketball hoop in a playground across the street from my house. It's at an angle where it's in the direction of my house. Getting sick of this kind of thing. Last summer the police arrested a teenager at the playground with a pistol. He was 13. I live in a city of roughly 125k people. Last year there were something like 17 shootings reported. That number had doubled this year by June. Crazy how times are changing.

Two shooting in one month? I guess born and raised in the hood, running the streets, doing and seeing the sh!t I have done/seen desensitized me to all this. Two shootings in a month is really low.

Again not trying to say what you are witnessing or living is minor just for me it is the norm.

[6doublefive321]

I grew up in a little Iowa town. Shootings didn't happen where I grew up. Now I've moved to a larger area and it's new to me. I cannot imagine living in a place where it's an every day occurance.

Oakland brah checking in, chit is stupid aint it haha.

[paolo59]

In Dallas we seem to wake up every morning to reports of a shooting somewhere or another in the city. Two or three sometimes! You do get a little desensitized to it, honestly. I suppose if the shooting was in my apartment complex or right outside my work place I'd 'freak' out a little bit. The weekends are bad! Word to the wise...stay away from clubs/dancehalls in the 'wee' hours of the morning.

[poundXpound]

Most cities have shootings daily. But guns aren't the problem, right?

Yeah, it's funny how inanimate objects spontaneously break the law of gravity by rising into the air and go off.....

[drudixon]

Most cities have shootings daily. But guns aren't the problem, right?

My town requires gun ownership and we have a few hundred thousand people. Maybe a couple shootings every year or so.

[Clinos]

Its getting harder and harder to isolate oneself from gun violence when the problem has nothing to do with guns.

[Plateauplower]

We have had a few around Chicago too. But not much more than one would expect in an actual war zone....

[bustasinclair]

try living back gate Oceanside....

ask any marine or ex marine...

this place has been a jungle for the last 30 years

Haha, yep!

November 1989, i was there sitting in a Taco Bell with some of my marine buddies when a dude came running out of the bathroom with a knife sticking out of his thigh and blood everywhere. Turned out a hooker stabbed him and took his wallet while they were doing some business in the restrooms.......

As an 18 year-old kid, that scared the shiit out of me.

[Galactus]

A south side Chicagoan checking in. A few shootings over 2 months. Not here. EVERY DAMN DAY. But to the point that guns aren't the problem. Last week on one of the train platforms 7 young gang thugs ran up and attacked 2 brothers with machettes. And honestly even with all the shootings, it seems like there are way more stabbings. Probably because the homeless people can't afford guns, so they're always shanking poeple. Good times.

[Brackneyc]

A south side Chicagoan checking in. A few shootings over 2 months. Not here. EVERY DAMN DAY. But to the point that guns aren't the problem. Last week on one of the train platforms 7 young gang thugs ran up and attacked 2 brothers with machettes. And honestly even with all the shootings, it seems like there are way more stabbings. Probably because the homeless people can't afford guns, so they're always shanking poeple. Good times.

Did they arrest those knives and machetes? I hope so. We cannot have those things running (or however they get around) around hurting innocent folks.

[ChazWood]

Did they arrest those knives and machetes? I hope so. We cannot have those things running (or however they get around) around hurting innocent folks.

They arrested them but the charges didn't stick cuz they were non-ferrous.

Sorry...

[Phily4321]

Guns shouldn't be legal

[ILurkAtWork]

try living back gate Oceanside....

ask any marine or ex marine...

this place has been a jungle for the last 30 years

Don't particularly miss that place.

[Wayne Evans]

November 1989, i was there sitting in a Taco Bell with some of my marine buddies when a dude came running out of the bathroom with a knife sticking out of his thigh and blood everywhere. Turned out a hooker stabbed him and took his wallet while they were doing some business in the restrooms.

Ho-ly shvt....that would certainly suck (ahem) and scar one for life.

Oceanside...interesting....you live near the back gate of Pendelton?
My training there was Nov '65-Feb '66 and after SE Asian picnic from April-Dec '67 but certainly would get lost on the base now.
I almost got a tat in Oceanside (drinking with some Brothers) in summer '67 but I wasn't in my cups enough to actually do it.

Back to topic....

[Brackneyc]

Guns shouldn't be legal

Neither should free speech.

[sy2502]

Oakland brah checking in, chit is stupid aint it haha.

LOL I work in West Oakland and was about to post the same...

OP in Oakland there's a church that plants a white cross in their front yard for every homicide. Last time I drove by, they were running out of space... Sad chit is sad.