Strange happenings last night.

[SideShow Bob]

Last night at about 0130 I was awakened by a few people screaming, yelling & carrying on on the street in front of my house. After about 20 minutes of this, I looked out the bedroom window and saw a late model GM truck blocking about 3/4s of my driveway and an unidetified smaller car sitting on the street side of the truck.

After a mother couple of minutes of the raucous, I was reaching in my nightstand for my HD pistol to go outside and and tell the stupid f*cks to shut the hell up & to get their truck out from in front of my driveway, when I I heard several people shout "Don't do it man, don't do it !" Immeadiatly followed by a single gunshot.

I hit the floor, it was silent for a couple of seconds, then I I heard someone shout "let's get the hell out of here !"
Then both vehicles pealed out & left in opposite directions, the directions they were facing.

End of event... Any comments ?

[Zundfolge]

Presumably there are no bodies or blood in the street?

Did you call the police?

[cstone]

What did the 911 dispatcher say when you told them about this when you spoke to them at 0131 AM?

Please tell me your first thought wasn't to grab a gun and go outside to confront a bunch of total strangers.

[SideShow Bob]

No bodies or blood, no use calling the police, they were long gone by the time I could have called. I woke the wife up and made sure she was OK first, she slept through the whole thing including the gunshot. The head of our bed is to the wall to the street in front of the house.
Guess I will be giving the member that has those ballistic panels for sale a call.

[SideShow Bob]

Please tell me your first thought wasn't to grab a gun and go outside to confront a bunch of total strangers.

I was going to shine a 4D cell mag light on them from inside the front door and tell them to shut up and move along.
The pistol was going to be at my side behind the door just in case.

[cstone]

But there may have been a police car just a few blocks away and based on your description they may have been able to make a stop and recover a weapon. All just possibilities and no way of knowing whether it could have happened unless you make the call.

I'm not sure I've ever understood the yelling at people who are making too much noise response. It reminds me of my neighbors who yell at their dogs who are barking.

Glad no one was injured...at least as far as we know.

[fportmen45]

I was reaching in my nightstand for my HD pistol to go outside and and tell the stupid f*cks to shut the hell up & to get their truck out from in front of my driveway

Bad call on so many levels.

[SideShow Bob]

Bad call on so many levels.

Read post #5.

Try reading all the posts before making a half informed comment.

[fportmen45]

I'm not sure I've ever understood the yelling at people who are making too much noise response.

Yup. I made a 5 second cut with a chop saw at 9pm (my bad - turns out the noise ordinance is 7pm - learn something new everyday) - dude behind my house shot at me at least twice with a BB gun & took out my sliding glass door ($1.7k to replace) because of it.

[fportmen45]

Read post #5.

Try reading all the posts before making a half informed comment.

Your initial post now makes more sense. Thank you.

I was reaching in my nightstand for my HD pistol to go outside and and tell the stupid f*cks to shut the hell up