BANG BANG - there goes the neighborhood
Well - it started out as a pretty nice, calm, relaxing evening.
We each had had a few drinks, some sushi, and had just watched the last episode of Six Feet Under, which needed to be taken back to the store by midnight.
We then heard a huge BOOM BOOM outside - huh? The sounds of lights turning on, doors opening up and down the street and a few 'what the fucks?' and 'ey carajos' filled the neighborhood. Startled, we decided that we'd both walk on down the street to the video store, and check out what was going on. Nothing much, down the street, beyond a white sheep dog scaring the living shit out of us as it jumped from behind a cloud of darkness.
On the way back home, two cop cars breezed by, asking us from their window if we'd seen anyone running past. Our first instinct was to say, 'yeah, we saw them running away' - but we hadn't, and from the tone in his voice, this wasn't a time to be fecking around - so we responded honestly by telling him "no".
A few neighbors where sitting on their porch stoops, an older Puerto Rican couple said something about a gun - I wasn't coherant enough to really comprehend their rapid spanish completely, but I caught the gist of it: "4 guys, gunshot, nobody shot, just a shot in the air" - I confirmed with a young woman who had just spoken with the cops herself - there'd been four guys walking down the street, nothing uncommon, they arrived at the corner and randomly decided to shoot the gun into the air - no fight, no apparent gangsta nonsense, just a couple of punks shooting a gun for fun - or so I hope the story really goes. Atleast one of them was in custody of the cops, the thug who'd shot the gun.
Well, atleast the cops will be around a bunch for the next few days. I've seen them about twice since.
We each had had a few drinks, some sushi, and had just watched the last episode of Six Feet Under, which needed to be taken back to the store by midnight.
We then heard a huge BOOM BOOM outside - huh? The sounds of lights turning on, doors opening up and down the street and a few 'what the fucks?' and 'ey carajos' filled the neighborhood. Startled, we decided that we'd both walk on down the street to the video store, and check out what was going on. Nothing much, down the street, beyond a white sheep dog scaring the living shit out of us as it jumped from behind a cloud of darkness.
On the way back home, two cop cars breezed by, asking us from their window if we'd seen anyone running past. Our first instinct was to say, 'yeah, we saw them running away' - but we hadn't, and from the tone in his voice, this wasn't a time to be fecking around - so we responded honestly by telling him "no".
A few neighbors where sitting on their porch stoops, an older Puerto Rican couple said something about a gun - I wasn't coherant enough to really comprehend their rapid spanish completely, but I caught the gist of it: "4 guys, gunshot, nobody shot, just a shot in the air" - I confirmed with a young woman who had just spoken with the cops herself - there'd been four guys walking down the street, nothing uncommon, they arrived at the corner and randomly decided to shoot the gun into the air - no fight, no apparent gangsta nonsense, just a couple of punks shooting a gun for fun - or so I hope the story really goes. Atleast one of them was in custody of the cops, the thug who'd shot the gun.
Well, atleast the cops will be around a bunch for the next few days. I've seen them about twice since.
posted by justinian at 9:35 AM
6 Comments:
actually, it was BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM.
idiots.
4? Shit, Dirty Harry lives in our hood.
Hey, I was just talking to the guy who works on Aura's house and minds most of the houses on the block - he said that he saw the cops stopping by the Tombstone. Not sure if it was a problem there, or if they were just stopping to ask questions.
shit! okay, here's the difference between y'all and me...i am evidently a huge woos, because if i hear a loud BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! there's no way i'm going to investigate. i'm rather awed by the bravado, but disturbed that there were gunshots on your block.
call me weird, but i just don't get the whole joy inherent in making a loud noise with a weapon fired into the air...there are many many other activities that just sound so much more amusing to me really. am i missing something? am i un-american?
Dumb asses...haven't they ever heard the urban legend of the bullent coming down on their heads and piercing their brains? Oh wait...shooting a gun in the air...their heads are apparently empty anyway.
le synge bleu - walking about after all of this probably wasn't the most prudent move on our part - and we're all but fecked, should 'our family lurker' still be reading this blog ... but, we've long since fealt that we're not going to fear being in our own neighborhood - and that we'd always have a visible presence, active role, in what goes on in the neighborhood. Silly and dangerous, probably, but I'm also of the opinion that the neighborhood was probably much safer after these jackasses started shooting the air up - and will remain so for atleast the immediate future, as there have been cops about just checking on things.
Thank goodness that you're alright. Like synge, I would have tucked my tail and hid in my house. I don't care what time the movies are due back!
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