  1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1188 Registered: 12-2004 |
Did anyone else here what sounded like gunshots downtown this evening (12/4/06) between 6:05 p.m. and 6:10 p.m.? I was on Madison near Gratiot when I heard it. At first I thought it was someone's junkie car, but as that person drove off, the sounds kept coming. My next reaction was to duck, but I doubt that would have done any good. | ||
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal Post Number: 966 Registered: 09-2004 |
I think it was a motorcycle backfiring in front of the Kales Building. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1190 Registered: 12-2004 |
Thanks. I hope thats what it was. It was very loud, though. Hard to believe thats what it was. Hope you are right. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 1136 Registered: 12-2005 |
My Mustang GT backfired a few times. It sounded exactly like a shotgun. It was startling. You just never know. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10982 Registered: 10-2003 |
Heh...I remember the days when I tried to convince myself that it was fire crackers or a vehicle backfiring. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10987 Registered: 10-2003 |
Heard another "car backfire" up here just prior to falling asleep last night. I wonder if it was the same car?  | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 900 Registered: 11-2003 |
SS, in your case, it was a cracker........ | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 901 Registered: 11-2003 |
But seriously, I've lived downtown for a year and have not heard anything that sounds like a gunshot, but any loud sound can echo off of the buildings and seem like gunshots.....if you have ever heard one from a distance, it's not all that different from alot of other sounds.......IMO | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10992 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gamblingman, Perhaps if you ever left Delux maybe you would hear them. haha | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9030 Registered: 10-2003 |
BANG! Now which one is it, a car or a gun? I woud think it's the gun. Detroit isn't in the top 5 list of murders for nothing. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10993 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not to mention, how often do you seriously hear a car backfire? | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10994 Registered: 10-2003 |
Perhaps this was the backfire?
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20061206/NEWS99/ 61206005 | ||
Roaringmouse Member Username: Roaringmouse Post Number: 5 Registered: 09-2006 |
We get cars backfiring (the real backfiring) driving through my neighborhood all the time. They also roll through real slow with flat tires a lot. But then we get that other backfiring more often. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1191 Registered: 12-2004 |
Its a shame they shot and him and missed. | ||
Ohudson Member Username: Ohudson Post Number: 160 Registered: 09-2004 |
SS, that happened this morning. I heard on the radio about 6:20 this morning that the guy fled from the police just minutes prior to the report. That cannot be what 1953 is talking about. Unless 1953 can hear guns being shot 12 hours later.... | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1310 Registered: 01-2004 |
1953 heard ECHOES | ||
Detroite Member Username: Detroite Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2006 |
It was just a car backfiring on Madison Ave. all the way towards Grand Circus. I'm a doorperson at the Gem, and being outside, it made me jump | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 7436 Registered: 12-2003 |
Welcome, Detroite. Thanks for the witness. |
