I didn't take Rosie outside for her evening walk until I was sure the coast was somewhat clear. I wouldn't even take Nibbles out. He would be way to noisy. If there was still anything going on out there, I wanted to be as quiet as possible. I know, a little paranoid.
The dispatcher who called me back stated there were police in the area and they were checking it out. She said some of the police officers in the area said it sounded like fireworks. I told her I believed it was a 45 caliber gun. She said some of the police officers in the area also thought the sounds were made from a gun and not fireworks. Conflicting stories even from the police officers in the area did nothing to calm my nerves.
We still don't know what happened. And I agree with you about our current neighbors. They are really nice people. I wish they could buy the house instead of renting it.
This was a mild incident. Many years ago we lived just outside of Hillsboro, Oregon. We lived in a fairly large mobile home park right next to a big farm. Next to the farm was a smaller piece of property with a berm out back(This berm was set up to keep bullets contained within a shooting range.) The neighbor would go out shooting at least once a day during the week. On weekends he would go out shooting most of the day. One day we heard automatic gun fire, not semi-automatic. Then we started hearing ricochets off of the sides of the houses in the mobile park. There were children in the park's playground. They children scattered to their homes
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Ok, I am a BIG fan of gun rights but... NO one has a right to fire a weapon for anything other than immediate self-defense within anything resembling a populated area, let alone a neighborhood. Oregon has state wide clear laws saying how far you must be from occupied homesteads before firing a weapon and I can guarantee what you just described doesn't cut the mustard! Getting rid of the guns doesn't really resolve it. Our news here is just always full of stabbings and knives being confiscated instead.
My mom has a neighbor like that. He likes to get drunk and wave his gun around. My brother went to return something of his a couple of years ago (I think something had blown out of his yard and into ours) and he pulled his pistol on Scotty. Really scary stuff! I was terrified that he'd shoot at the house one day and hit someone!
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The dispatcher who called me back stated there were police in the area and they were checking it out. She said some of the police officers in the area said it sounded like fireworks. I told her I believed it was a 45 caliber gun. She said some of the police officers in the area also thought the sounds were made from a gun and not fireworks. Conflicting stories even from the police officers in the area did nothing to calm my nerves.
We still don't know what happened. And I agree with you about our current neighbors. They are really nice people. I wish they could buy the house instead of renting it.
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Getting rid of the guns doesn't really resolve it. Our news here is just always full of stabbings and knives being confiscated instead.
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My mom has a neighbor like that. He likes to get drunk and wave his gun around. My brother went to return something of his a couple of years ago (I think something had blown out of his yard and into ours) and he pulled his pistol on Scotty. Really scary stuff! I was terrified that he'd shoot at the house one day and hit someone!
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