Quoth ArcticChicken
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a) firecrackers
b) car backfiring
c) gunfire
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish, but rifles and BB guns, for example, are slightly different from a handgun.
Case in point: 3 summers ago now we had a rash of teen gang activity going on near us. Had several businesses vandalized, a couple of wooden privacy fences spray painted, and groups of teens wandering through the neighborhood at all hours, being very loud, obnoxious and vulgar.
One evening, while I was in bed (had to go to work later in the morning) I woke up to what I thought sounded like popping. Heard 3 of them - vauguely - out of the corner of my ear. Went to look outside and saw headlights.
Got outside on the back deck, went around the back of the house towards the wheelchair ramp and Mom was outside on the ramp in her chair, talking with a police officer. Turned out Mom had heard the pops and called 911 . . . to her it sounded more like a rifle or BB gun and told the officer which direction she thought it sounded like they had come from.
Turned out someone else in the neighborhood called 911 at the same time Mom did to report hearing 3 shots from the same direction. And on top of that, a nearby hardware store was broken into just a few hours before - one of the items missing was a rifle.
Not long after that incident and school started back, a lot of the troublemakers were gone and haven't been back since. Been fairly peaceful since around here.
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