Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Gunshots? Fireworks? In this case, the latter.

 


Officers sent to the 1900 block of Atwood Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. found no evidence of gunfire, but did find spent fireworks in a parking lot, police spokesperson Stephanie Fryer said in a statement.

11/29/2021 update starts here


10/8/2021 update starts here.

Rest assured, though, that we're likely to see numerous 'gunshots or fireworks?' posts on Next Door during the next few days.


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Original 9/16/2021 post, "Fireworks or gunshots?   The great debate continues at Next Door", starts here.







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The Atlantic, July-August 2018
Takahashi echoes Wymer on noise complaints—talk of fireworks or gunshots (they are rarely actual gunshots) is common, she says. Sometimes these complaints have dramatic consequences. In Seattle, a post about a dog’s bad reaction to some kind of cannon that was sounded during Seahawks football games led to an online dispute, and a neighborhood meeting at a library to talk it out erupted into a brawl. “Seattle is like the Florida of Nextdoor,” Takahashi told me, referring to the Sunshine State’s tendency to surface all manner of improbable events.

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