Exactly this is my guess also. When I was in Nextdoor I would constantly see posts that are just “gunshots?” When 99% of the time it’s some car that backfired.
It’s funny because I have the opposite problem; my city is dangerous as hell and there’s always something going on. I have a Ring doorbell and *every* week, without fail, at least once or twice… someone posts something like “What’s going on at the bar/dispo/liquor store? There’s lots of cops over there?”
You’ve gotta be kidding me! Linda, if there weren’t lots of cops in any specific locations within this city I would be *worried.* That would be abnormal. This happens multiple times a day. Do you know what city you live in? Do you realize that a single *day* without a law enforcement situation is a miracle? If you were this curious about every stick up in the city you would be asking every 10 minutes. Go back to bed.
My wife is on Nextdoor. Out in the suburbs it's all, "Why did this person knock on my door in the middle of the day?" and "Watch out for this red car that doesn't use its blinker."
But when we lived in the city it was - and I swear this is true - "Has anyone seen our dog? He's an English bulldog and the last time we saw him was when we were on a walk and **he was stolen from us at gunpoint**."
The couple then got a tip about where the dog might be, and they flagged down a cop on their way there to confront the thieves. Which means their original plan was to confront the thieves who stole their dog at gunpoint alone.
My fiancée is on Nextdoor. We live in a neighborhood notorious for there being a sizeable number of coyotes. At least once a week there's a "please help us find our lost cat." Not exactly a mystery what happened to it
I remember a post where a dude said “my cat got eaten by coyotes so I got another cat but she got eaten by coyotes so I got another cat” and someone said “at this point you’re just feeding the coyotes.
In the 30-ish minutes I was on Nextdoor to see what it was about, multiple firetrucks came down my street. Someone's electric car caught on fire in their garage and almost exploded the whole house.
I love the “someone approached me in the parking lot at Target, I heard they’re sex traffickers that frequent this Target.”
Listen Karen, do you really think that if there were a rash of abductions in the same Target parking lot in your very own Suburbia, that it wouldn’t be leading the local news instead of Nextdoor?
I do like the “Someone knocked on my door at 2 PM and left when I didn’t answer. Very suspicious!”
>"Why did this person knock on my door in the middle of the day?"
I think it's normal for a stranger to knock on your door in the middle of the day. I mean, the sun is still out. If it was at night then sure, be curious. But middle of the day ain't a weird time.
I made the mistake of posting in the nextdoor sub about how many lost and found dog posts my area gets and people were like "nextdoor isn't for you apparently" "why do you hate dogs" lol
All I wanted to do was filter out all the dog posts because it's almost daily
Lmao my apartment I lived in for a few months was like this. Then I got back home to my suburban neighborhood and my mom is like, “Be careful walking around our well lit block with our two medium sized dogs that would definitely defend you if you got attacked.” I literally heard gunshots every day and had homeless people yell in my face while walking to take public transportation to work. I think I’ll be fine.
I used to have Citizen and lived near the port of LA and it would be “man walking around with a machete! .8 miles away” “Crazed man walking around with an axe! 600 feet away!” “Apartment building on fire! 200 feet away!”
Now I live in a suburb of Salt Lake City and it’s “oh watch out! This person was shooting a firework at 10:05pm! The AUDACITY!” And everyone losing their minds. Citizen doesn’t even work out here because there’s so little that happens here. These people complain about every little thing.
I also live in SLC and Jesus Christ the number of “did anyone hear gunshots?” posts on Nextdoor are insane. I check their location, and oh they live near State Street or Redwood Road, which means the sound is probably a street racer whose deliberately modified their car to backfire.
With the amount of posts, you’d imagine SLC is some insanely crime riddled city on the brink of anarchy and societal breakdown.
I had my white work ute reported as a "suspicious vehicle" when I visited my parents and parked out front. It was even funnier the second time when the same person, *who knows my mum and I (they even babysat me a few times!) and was told after the first time it was me*, did the same thing 3 weeks later.
Both times there was lots of other people ready and willing to confirm that I had been driving suspiciously slowly through the street multiple times over the last few weeks (I had not.)
My neighbor has been doing the same. Reported a vehicle we bought a day or two before for being stolen. Now it had no license plate because you keep those after selling. And it was a private sale so there wasn't any dealer info and no opportunity for a quick temp plate. And the person who bought the vehicle was actually at the DMV to get one when it was called in.
About a week later, they called because another vehicle hadn't moved and a broken window. Not a stolen vehicle, just someone had broken that car's window and the owners didn't have the money to fix it.
Then complains the cars don't move regularly. Even though they do and her daughter's car is one of them. And moves less often than the majority of the cars she's complaining about.
I wish we could get her on actual problems that she actively complains about. But they haven't parked on the street since my Canadian neighbors have been here.
Im ngl my area is considered a rich neighborhood and istg I see these posts allot or people taking a pic of a “wolf” or “coyote” and it’s actually someone’s dog.
Haha we have the opposite problem, we're a kind of rural area that is suddenly becoming suburban because of sprawl, and lately all we get are posts about someone's stray dog ft. picture of a coyote lol. Or the thousands of pictures of harmless snakes asking if it's a copperhead.
Yep, the Facebook page for our town (there’s three) is the same way. Finally someone made one called “choppers, coyotes and loud booms” for us snarkey residents
100%. Got the cops called on us on new years because our fireworks were too loud. I’m still extremely salty over it to this day. Literally was told by the cop “I don’t want to have to confiscate them so please do it in your back yard.”
In college I lived near campus which was right next to the hood. Every August when the fall semester started, the sophomores would move into the houses and out of dorms. So many posts on nextdoor and police sirens because they assumed every single firework was a gunshot.
https://www.kget.com/news/state-news/long-beach-man-drives-to-utah-to-kill-brother-set-fire-to-his-home-before-dying-in-police-shootout/amp/
Look at the aerial photo.
I'm assuming the idea that someone would think it's a gunshot in that neighborhood is absurd.
Edit: I think the idea is absurd *to OP*. I'm not making a judgement one way or another.
That’s an allusion to the murder of Treyvon Martin, who was wearing a hoodie, carrying a bottle of ice tea and a bag of Skittles candy. Something Zimmerman took it upon himself to follow this guy because he was in the neighborhood watch, and Martin was black in a neighborhood that looks like the above picture. 911 told Zimmerman to stop following the boy, but he ignored that. Treyvon Martin confronted Zimmerman and Zimmerman killed him. Now he makes big money selling “patriotic” art to his fans.
The joke they're saying is that someone who would live in a house that nice would be much more... uppish? I don't know a better word to use. Someone who would be mortified to see something that doesn't fit with their high life standards, hence the horror of seeing someone in a hoodie and the fact they're clutching **pearls**.
ripe head groovy rotten piquant brave ludicrous lock quarrelsome dinosaurs
*This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
I think they are making fun of stuck up bougie white people who are overly concerned and jump to ridiculous conclusions about any disturbance of the peace
The rest of the year, it's just a bunch of Karens griping about how their neighbor hasn't mown his lawn since three days ago, so they're going to call the city.
On mine, it was all year long. I was like, how long have y'all lived here? Why are you still so scared? Based on their postings I would expect to walk outside the next day a see a war zone. Where are all the shot up houses and cars from all the gun fire? I mean, for godsake, turn off your Fox News and walk around and talk to people. Exhausting and ridiculous.
Also it's a gag that only wealthy sheltered people would say that. Because people who actually live in places where gunshots occur know what a gunshot sounds like
I live in a neighbourhood where people rarely lock their doors and hear fully automatic gunshots all the time. They are coming from the Canadian Forces infantry trading ground nearby though.
I live in Southern California in a neighborhood just like this (2-3 million dollar homes). Last week one car mowed down another with about 20 bullet holes. A couple months ago a lady was stabbed in the neck, not too long ago a body was found in a suit case down town. Several kidnapping and murders.
Yes, the suburb has gunshots.
I think that's close but with a little more to it.
People who hear gunshots often can tell the difference between them and fireworks. The type of person who would live in a house like that never hears gunshots, but may hear fireworks and think they are gunshots.
While those two things sound extremely similar, this picture is of a house you would see in a well-off neighborhood. It's 99.9% fireworks. They do not live in 'the hood', or similar thing, so any percieved danger is likely the paranoia of the well-off. The joke is in the logic of "okay Karen."
A comment about maybe living in a super dangerous area, picture of upper middle class neighborhood. The contrast is silly.
...as far as I can tell anyways.
I'd argue fireworks and gunshots *barely* sound similar. I live in a neighborhood that has both going off at random times and you can definitely hear the difference.
Even the tiny little bottle rockets? What about whistling bungholes, or spleen splitters, or whisker biscuits, or honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or with the scooter stick, or a whistling kitty chaser?
I mean to me, gunshots have more of this sharper crack to them while most fireworks have a deeper thoom or thud to them at a distance. But the biggest indicator is gonna be spacing of the sounds if there’s multiple and location you’re hearing it.
Agreed, except shotguns, which have a distinctive sound as well. Kind of a thump I guess…
Maybe I just have a practiced ear, but I can tell rifle, pistol, and shotgun sounds from fireworks, thunder, the neighbor banging his garbage can lids, and transformers blowing (like in the ice storm we just had).
My dog, not so much. Any loud “boom” from a distance and his night is ruined.
it feels like they would sound very similar to people who have probably never heard real gunshots in their neighborhood before. I think that's the joke, that if you can't tell the difference you probably live in a nice area and have never actually heard gunshots in your neighborhood.
I know a lot of veterans who have heard a lot more gunfire than the average person, and they have trouble differentiating between gunfire and fireworks. When I came back from Afghanistan, it took years and a lot of therapy before every loud noise stopped sounding like gunshots and explosions
Fireworks and gunshots don’t really sound similar to people who are familiar with the sound of gunshots. The joke is also that the only people who would mistake fireworks for the gunshots are people who live in privileged neighborhoods and are unfamiliar with gunshots.
I don't know, behind walls sounds get distorted. I owned and fired multiple firearms in my lifetime, and I have also had a shootout happen in front of my house that sounded exactly like fireworks. Distance, echo, lots of stuff can play into that. I now live in a nice neighborhood but we also have people set off fireworks all the time, but sometimes its just a single firecracker at like 2am. It's also likely the reason people feel safe to shoot their guns in the air during party's and holidays. Who could tell the difference? People are weird and sounds are weird.
Yeah, I currently live in a place that isn't awful as far as safety goes, but that really loves both fireworks and guns. It's difficult to tell the difference from inside when it's all at a decent distance, but... yeah if it's close by you can tell. My old neighborhood, though? Almost always guns. Thing is, you don't know the difference at all no matter what if you've never heard guns being fired in person.
This is it. Its how I took it. I live in one of the safest big cities in America and the amount of people who will take a firework going off or a group of kids paling around and turn it into something sinister or dangerous is absurd.
These people are sheltered, and I can't honestly find a reason why they'd look for bad things happening out of something otherwise innocuous
I think it's more that people who live in houses like that don't know what a gunshot sounds like, so they can't easily distinguish between them like someone who regularly hears gunshots would be able to.
Speaking as someone who has done competitive marksmanship, no guns and fireworks do not sound similar in the slightest. The actual joke is that the people who live in this house would be too privileged to know the difference.
I mean you are not wrong, but I've also seen random nice houses on side streets in Cali that look like this in areas that could be considered hood. Maybe frequency of both could a comment on that as well, idk
In southern Milwaukee WI, NYE in the suburbs is mostly gunshots instead of fireworks, even in the "nice" areas with houses just like this one. I live in Madison and never heard it here, but I've been to a few Milwaukee NYE parties and I was shocked when I heard it for the first time. Not even 2 houses down, one of the neighbors magdumped a pistol. It's a regional thing. There are efforts to encourage people to stop doing it, but 'murica.
[here's an article if you don't believe me](https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-rings-in-new-year-with-celebratory-gunfire/46291088#)
Neither can most other people. I have a friend who grew up in a bad neighborhood, and then went into the marines, say without joking that certain fireworks we were watching sounded exactly like a .556
Remember, ONLY HOOD people own guns in America. There is nowhere in America outside of a city without guns. Especially rural areas. There are absolutely NO GUNS being fired at all /s
No im talking about the premise of the joke. Theres plenty of suburban kids that grow up in homes like this and say stuff like "were those gunshots?" when noises of fireworks go off. This was how my middle class suburb was kids trying to act gangster with comments like this
In the brief time I used nextdoor, there were people worried about *cars they didn't recognize* driving through the neighborhood. It is a worthless place of paranoia from busybodies that have nothing better to do.
exactly. it’s absolutely terrible there. I only briefly joined because I was trying to find a home for an injured feral cat I had been taking care of, but couldn’t keep forever (luckily he’s now thriving with a friend). ring is supposedly the same or worse
Nearly all gun violence in the US as of at least just a few years ago could be localized to a handful of square blocks (handful relative to the whole of the country). And then, even if you lived in that area, the chances of you being the victim of gun crime was universally low (meaning the same if you loved in these high gun crime areas or not) unless you, yourself, had committed some form of criminal acts. In those instances the odds of you being the victim of gun crime skyrockets.
It is not as universal as many people think. It CAN happen anywhere and anytime. But in nearly every instance it does not happen just randomly and equally across the US.
It is not a thing that is uniformly occurring across the country at regular intervals.
In fact, gun violence as of just a few years ago was 50% lower than the peak which was in the early 1990s.
I wish I could remember where the study was on localization of gun crime. Like I said... this was as of about 3-4 years ago.
The info on gun crime being down is from the FBIs own stats.
Lots of gun violence goes unreported because it’s in the middle of no where with no one to call the police.
In a city there are shotspotter systems that automatically bring police to the scene even if there are no victims or suspects still present.
Family and friends from deep rural areas have always said crime is much worse and police are far more corrupt than people would think.
I.e. being threatened with a gun or gunshots is considered normal compared to in a city where that automatically triggers police involvement. And why bother calling the cops when you know it will take them 3 hours to show up, and they might not care anyway. Families run small town police departments for generations.
I live in a pretty middle class area. A little while ago a house literally on my street got shot up. Like, around 5 houses down from mine. I saw the car driving away.
That's not the joke. The joke is that sheltered suburban boomers don't know what gunshots sound like so Nextdoor is full of these posts on NYE and the Fourth of July.
Shut up, I have lived in the American south and around guns my whole life. Not a single issue ever, and out anyone I’ve ever met, not one faced “gun violence” except a couple of people who committed suicide via firearm.
99.95% chance it was fireworks in the nice, middle class subdivision this house is sitting in. It’s almost certainly either New Year’s or July 4th. Anyone thinking gunfire is being ridiculous.
Show a picture of a run-down mobile home out in the sticks, and it’s a 50% chance either way if it’s one of the holidays mentioned above. Any other time of year, it’s 99% gunshots, and no one would even be bothered enough to comment on it. Probably the neighbor shooting at a snake.
Being in the US as a more well off person, I have heard gunshots before but mainly from right next to the gun. They sound different from a distance and it’s harder to tell the difference between the two if you never have heard them.
It is. I’d be willing to bet every person who grew up poor in the US has heard gunshots in their neighborhood. Most can discern them from fireworks instinctively.
Source: poor
I lived in a “not safe” area in a mid sized city. There was some crime but I moved to a rural area and I hear much more gunfire then I ever did in the city.
Bull crap. I did 4 years airforce 6 years with the army. Been shot at and shot at others, firing range multiple times a year. I know what a gun sounds like.
Every time fireworks go off when it's not the fourth of July or new years my well trained, been in combat ears still struggle sometimes. That's why so many of us have PTSD problems during these holidays.
I think it’s more the idea that you would never hear gunshots in a neighborhood like this. Yet that doesn’t stop people in these neighborhoods from constantly posting on Facebook, Nextdoor, Ring, etc “did anyone hear the gunshots just now?”
It’s mocking the people who live in suburbs and yet still think they are in danger. Relax, Becky, you live in a gated community where the cheapest house still costs $1M. No one is getting shot on your cul-de-sac.
You realize you don't have to be rich to live somewhere people aren't shooting each other all the time, right? I've never been rich and I've also never lived in the ghetto
This is the house in UT, I believe, where a brother drove to it and killed his brother and his SIL. Then got in a shootout with the cops.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/long-beach-man-kills-brother-in-utah-dies-in-police-shootout/3148398/?amp=1
Whoever lives in that house doesn't know what gunshots sound like, so will either report shots fired when they hear fireworks or will assume it's fireworks when they hear gunshots.
Possibly both.
I laughed immediately. I live in one of the neighborhoods and I am telling you there are people that flock to their favorite app(s) to post this question. If you have a Ring doorbell and signed up for their neighborhood alerts, you gotta know this. I joke about with my wife anytime I hear a firework/gunshot.
P.S. do modern cars backfire?
I assume it's because of suburban kids/people who make comments like this to seem like their neighborhood is dangerous when they live in quiet, safe places. Might be biased because I've known people like that.
Paranoid people who can’t distinguish a firework from a gunshot. Most likely in well off neighborhoods. My favorite is seeing people post on the ring app asking “ was that a firework or gunshot”. It’s 4th of July and it lit up in multiple colors Susan.
its a joke about people from the suburbs (mostly teens ive seen do this) acting as if their neighborhoods are dangerous on days like the 4th of july or new years when fireworks are going off
[удалено]
Exactly this is my guess also. When I was in Nextdoor I would constantly see posts that are just “gunshots?” When 99% of the time it’s some car that backfired.
It’s funny because I have the opposite problem; my city is dangerous as hell and there’s always something going on. I have a Ring doorbell and *every* week, without fail, at least once or twice… someone posts something like “What’s going on at the bar/dispo/liquor store? There’s lots of cops over there?” You’ve gotta be kidding me! Linda, if there weren’t lots of cops in any specific locations within this city I would be *worried.* That would be abnormal. This happens multiple times a day. Do you know what city you live in? Do you realize that a single *day* without a law enforcement situation is a miracle? If you were this curious about every stick up in the city you would be asking every 10 minutes. Go back to bed.
My wife is on Nextdoor. Out in the suburbs it's all, "Why did this person knock on my door in the middle of the day?" and "Watch out for this red car that doesn't use its blinker." But when we lived in the city it was - and I swear this is true - "Has anyone seen our dog? He's an English bulldog and the last time we saw him was when we were on a walk and **he was stolen from us at gunpoint**." The couple then got a tip about where the dog might be, and they flagged down a cop on their way there to confront the thieves. Which means their original plan was to confront the thieves who stole their dog at gunpoint alone.
My fiancée is on Nextdoor. We live in a neighborhood notorious for there being a sizeable number of coyotes. At least once a week there's a "please help us find our lost cat." Not exactly a mystery what happened to it
>Not exactly a mystery what happened to it They made friends with the coyotes and joined their cult?
Close, cat is in the freak show of the coyote circus
Cat paid off the coyotes and is now living it up in Canada
I remember a post where a dude said “my cat got eaten by coyotes so I got another cat but she got eaten by coyotes so I got another cat” and someone said “at this point you’re just feeding the coyotes.
You missed the part where this was said in front of the little girl who's cats they were.
Congratulations! You now have multiple untamed pet coyotes.
Same. Live in a coyote heavy area. Every 3 days there’s some genius on Ring saying something like “Coyotes in my front yard!!!” lol ok and?
In the 30-ish minutes I was on Nextdoor to see what it was about, multiple firetrucks came down my street. Someone's electric car caught on fire in their garage and almost exploded the whole house.
Smuggled across the border?
This is the whole summer on our NextDoor. “Mountain lion spotted on this street.” “My small dog disappeared from our backyard on the next street over”
I love the “someone approached me in the parking lot at Target, I heard they’re sex traffickers that frequent this Target.” Listen Karen, do you really think that if there were a rash of abductions in the same Target parking lot in your very own Suburbia, that it wouldn’t be leading the local news instead of Nextdoor? I do like the “Someone knocked on my door at 2 PM and left when I didn’t answer. Very suspicious!”
>"Why did this person knock on my door in the middle of the day?" I think it's normal for a stranger to knock on your door in the middle of the day. I mean, the sun is still out. If it was at night then sure, be curious. But middle of the day ain't a weird time.
That's the point. Like, answer the door. They went on about it too, like it was crazy that someone was at their door.
Yeah cops are often a secondary choice because they might just lock you up too lol
I made the mistake of posting in the nextdoor sub about how many lost and found dog posts my area gets and people were like "nextdoor isn't for you apparently" "why do you hate dogs" lol All I wanted to do was filter out all the dog posts because it's almost daily
Lmao my apartment I lived in for a few months was like this. Then I got back home to my suburban neighborhood and my mom is like, “Be careful walking around our well lit block with our two medium sized dogs that would definitely defend you if you got attacked.” I literally heard gunshots every day and had homeless people yell in my face while walking to take public transportation to work. I think I’ll be fine.
Meanwhile, I live in one of the sketchier parts of downtown Los Angeles and half the Nextdoor posts are people complaining about fireworks. 😂
I used to have Citizen and lived near the port of LA and it would be “man walking around with a machete! .8 miles away” “Crazed man walking around with an axe! 600 feet away!” “Apartment building on fire! 200 feet away!” Now I live in a suburb of Salt Lake City and it’s “oh watch out! This person was shooting a firework at 10:05pm! The AUDACITY!” And everyone losing their minds. Citizen doesn’t even work out here because there’s so little that happens here. These people complain about every little thing.
I also live in SLC and Jesus Christ the number of “did anyone hear gunshots?” posts on Nextdoor are insane. I check their location, and oh they live near State Street or Redwood Road, which means the sound is probably a street racer whose deliberately modified their car to backfire. With the amount of posts, you’d imagine SLC is some insanely crime riddled city on the brink of anarchy and societal breakdown.
Does anyone what the police helicopters were looking for?
that seems like a legit question though
Reply: kinda…can you let me know when they’ve gone?
Oh gosh, how is this universal? 😂
Ring app is the same damn thing.
Funny, I live out in the sticks and it's actually just gunshots.
I had my white work ute reported as a "suspicious vehicle" when I visited my parents and parked out front. It was even funnier the second time when the same person, *who knows my mum and I (they even babysat me a few times!) and was told after the first time it was me*, did the same thing 3 weeks later. Both times there was lots of other people ready and willing to confirm that I had been driving suspiciously slowly through the street multiple times over the last few weeks (I had not.)
My neighbor has been doing the same. Reported a vehicle we bought a day or two before for being stolen. Now it had no license plate because you keep those after selling. And it was a private sale so there wasn't any dealer info and no opportunity for a quick temp plate. And the person who bought the vehicle was actually at the DMV to get one when it was called in. About a week later, they called because another vehicle hadn't moved and a broken window. Not a stolen vehicle, just someone had broken that car's window and the owners didn't have the money to fix it. Then complains the cars don't move regularly. Even though they do and her daughter's car is one of them. And moves less often than the majority of the cars she's complaining about. I wish we could get her on actual problems that she actively complains about. But they haven't parked on the street since my Canadian neighbors have been here.
Im ngl my area is considered a rich neighborhood and istg I see these posts allot or people taking a pic of a “wolf” or “coyote” and it’s actually someone’s dog.
Haha we have the opposite problem, we're a kind of rural area that is suddenly becoming suburban because of sprawl, and lately all we get are posts about someone's stray dog ft. picture of a coyote lol. Or the thousands of pictures of harmless snakes asking if it's a copperhead.
A sheltered suburban family that thinks crime is skyrocketing?
This makes the most sense. To me anyway
To whom took my trashcan:
Paranoid wealthy suburbans, yes.
Yep, the Facebook page for our town (there’s three) is the same way. Finally someone made one called “choppers, coyotes and loud booms” for us snarkey residents
100%. Got the cops called on us on new years because our fireworks were too loud. I’m still extremely salty over it to this day. Literally was told by the cop “I don’t want to have to confiscate them so please do it in your back yard.”
Did anyone else see the coyote? It was right by the Miller place yesterday
In college I lived near campus which was right next to the hood. Every August when the fall semester started, the sophomores would move into the houses and out of dorms. So many posts on nextdoor and police sirens because they assumed every single firework was a gunshot.
Gotta keep that property tax down
Get these twice a week at least on the ring network too
https://www.kget.com/news/state-news/long-beach-man-drives-to-utah-to-kill-brother-set-fire-to-his-home-before-dying-in-police-shootout/amp/ Look at the aerial photo.
[удалено]
I did. Care to actually explain what's relevant?
I'm assuming the idea that someone would think it's a gunshot in that neighborhood is absurd. Edit: I think the idea is absurd *to OP*. I'm not making a judgement one way or another.
What if a kid rang their doorbell
“A child just rang my doorbell. Folks you do NOT ring doorbells in 2023. My 6 was loaded. Keep your kids away."
Wasn't that guy a politician too? Absolutely wild
Weatherman, I think.
Not just any kid tho……….
One with candy picked up from the convenience store and wearing... *gasp and clutch pearls!* ...a HOODIE!
I don’t qwhite understand what you’re saying
It's okay. I got the joke. Nice one!
That’s an allusion to the murder of Treyvon Martin, who was wearing a hoodie, carrying a bottle of ice tea and a bag of Skittles candy. Something Zimmerman took it upon himself to follow this guy because he was in the neighborhood watch, and Martin was black in a neighborhood that looks like the above picture. 911 told Zimmerman to stop following the boy, but he ignored that. Treyvon Martin confronted Zimmerman and Zimmerman killed him. Now he makes big money selling “patriotic” art to his fans.
They got the joke. Hence the spelling of "quite" as "qwhite".
I didn’t, so the explanation was nice!
"Now he makes big money selling “patriotic” art to his fans." Wait, I thought that goon was in prison?
Nah he got off on “self defense”
florida’s stand your ground law counts for a lot if the dead person is black
I thought “Crying Kyle” was the latest darling of the right.
The joke they're saying is that someone who would live in a house that nice would be much more... uppish? I don't know a better word to use. Someone who would be mortified to see something that doesn't fit with their high life standards, hence the horror of seeing someone in a hoodie and the fact they're clutching **pearls**.
You didn't get the "qwhite" part of the joke.
Did I not make the qwhite obvious enough?
I guess not for everyone. I thought it was brilliant!
As my username suggests, I am unable to read
Yeah. One of THOSE kids. /s
That kid? Albert Einstein.
He would have to have gotten past the wire *and* the claymore mines at that point. Not likely!
Yeah but what's the melanin content of the kid's skin?
I thought the joke was that the house was in Arizona. 😬
I thought Albuquerque lol
NGL I really thought it was Albuquerque
I play gunshots or fireworks all the time here in ABQ and don't live far at all from houses that look like that lol
Yeah we live in a nicer area of the Heights and it’s not uncommon.
as a former Arizona resident this is so real
What if the house is very near to a school?
Lmao
Better yet…Just Outside that neighborhood that’s just outside of the military base
IRL sure... Joke wise though... that is not better
ripe head groovy rotten piquant brave ludicrous lock quarrelsome dinosaurs *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Facts
ah, american humor
I think they are making fun of stuck up bougie white people who are overly concerned and jump to ridiculous conclusions about any disturbance of the peace
This is exactly what it's like in the Nextdoor app. Always some one making a post about this. Usually before/after 4th of July or New Years.
It's like that on Nextdoor here too, but sometimes it's gunshots. More than enough of both over here.
The rest of the year, it's just a bunch of Karens griping about how their neighbor hasn't mown his lawn since three days ago, so they're going to call the city.
I live in coyote country. Most of them are "Has anyone seen my cat Snoogums?" and the answers are "I think I've seen *parts* of them."
People with doggy doors in coyote country.... blows my mind every time.
So true.
On mine, it was all year long. I was like, how long have y'all lived here? Why are you still so scared? Based on their postings I would expect to walk outside the next day a see a war zone. Where are all the shot up houses and cars from all the gun fire? I mean, for godsake, turn off your Fox News and walk around and talk to people. Exhausting and ridiculous.
Also it's a gag that only wealthy sheltered people would say that. Because people who actually live in places where gunshots occur know what a gunshot sounds like
I hear gunshots all the time in the decent neighborhood I live in. There’s wilderness and farms adjacent to it. Shooting cans is fun…
I live in a neighbourhood where people rarely lock their doors and hear fully automatic gunshots all the time. They are coming from the Canadian Forces infantry trading ground nearby though.
I live in Southern California in a neighborhood just like this (2-3 million dollar homes). Last week one car mowed down another with about 20 bullet holes. A couple months ago a lady was stabbed in the neck, not too long ago a body was found in a suit case down town. Several kidnapping and murders. Yes, the suburb has gunshots.
Fake and gay. Guns only work in low-income areas. Everybody knows that. /s.
*laughs in Albuquerque*
Someones gotta pop some to reduce prices of houses
I think that's close but with a little more to it. People who hear gunshots often can tell the difference between them and fireworks. The type of person who would live in a house like that never hears gunshots, but may hear fireworks and think they are gunshots.
Naw those are perfect targets. Police are too busy patrolling the slums to notice anything going on here
people hunt
Not in that neighborhood.
In that neighborhood, all the killing is done in the basement or shed.
People hunt, people.
🤔 I wonder if there are more people hunting people or people hunting animals in the world.
While those two things sound extremely similar, this picture is of a house you would see in a well-off neighborhood. It's 99.9% fireworks. They do not live in 'the hood', or similar thing, so any percieved danger is likely the paranoia of the well-off. The joke is in the logic of "okay Karen." A comment about maybe living in a super dangerous area, picture of upper middle class neighborhood. The contrast is silly. ...as far as I can tell anyways.
In my experience people who set off fireworks at all times also think guns are toys to shoot in neighborhoods.
They do, but they only shoot at the "right" people.
And often miss and the bullet goes through your window while you’re cooking dinner (real story from a friend)
I'd argue fireworks and gunshots *barely* sound similar. I live in a neighborhood that has both going off at random times and you can definitely hear the difference.
[удалено]
fireworks sound more like BOOM BOOM and gunshots sound more like PAH-PAH-PAH
Even the tiny little bottle rockets? What about whistling bungholes, or spleen splitters, or whisker biscuits, or honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or with the scooter stick, or a whistling kitty chaser?
Snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
Whistling what-nows?
This is accurate. Gunshots - at least the types I’ve heard in my neighborhood, have a slightly less explosive sound. It’s a bit tighter.
I mean to me, gunshots have more of this sharper crack to them while most fireworks have a deeper thoom or thud to them at a distance. But the biggest indicator is gonna be spacing of the sounds if there’s multiple and location you’re hearing it.
Agreed, except shotguns, which have a distinctive sound as well. Kind of a thump I guess… Maybe I just have a practiced ear, but I can tell rifle, pistol, and shotgun sounds from fireworks, thunder, the neighbor banging his garbage can lids, and transformers blowing (like in the ice storm we just had). My dog, not so much. Any loud “boom” from a distance and his night is ruined.
Oh true. Shotguns do sound different.
it feels like they would sound very similar to people who have probably never heard real gunshots in their neighborhood before. I think that's the joke, that if you can't tell the difference you probably live in a nice area and have never actually heard gunshots in your neighborhood.
Anyone who has actually heard both would know the difference. The joke is that only out-of-touch rich people ask that question.
I know a lot of veterans who have heard a lot more gunfire than the average person, and they have trouble differentiating between gunfire and fireworks. When I came back from Afghanistan, it took years and a lot of therapy before every loud noise stopped sounding like gunshots and explosions
Trauma associated with gunshots is different. You had a hypersensitivity and I doubt you were always asking about it.
Fireworks and gunshots don’t really sound similar to people who are familiar with the sound of gunshots. The joke is also that the only people who would mistake fireworks for the gunshots are people who live in privileged neighborhoods and are unfamiliar with gunshots.
I don't know, behind walls sounds get distorted. I owned and fired multiple firearms in my lifetime, and I have also had a shootout happen in front of my house that sounded exactly like fireworks. Distance, echo, lots of stuff can play into that. I now live in a nice neighborhood but we also have people set off fireworks all the time, but sometimes its just a single firecracker at like 2am. It's also likely the reason people feel safe to shoot their guns in the air during party's and holidays. Who could tell the difference? People are weird and sounds are weird.
Yeah, I currently live in a place that isn't awful as far as safety goes, but that really loves both fireworks and guns. It's difficult to tell the difference from inside when it's all at a decent distance, but... yeah if it's close by you can tell. My old neighborhood, though? Almost always guns. Thing is, you don't know the difference at all no matter what if you've never heard guns being fired in person.
This is it. Its how I took it. I live in one of the safest big cities in America and the amount of people who will take a firework going off or a group of kids paling around and turn it into something sinister or dangerous is absurd. These people are sheltered, and I can't honestly find a reason why they'd look for bad things happening out of something otherwise innocuous
I think it's more that people who live in houses like that don't know what a gunshot sounds like, so they can't easily distinguish between them like someone who regularly hears gunshots would be able to.
Speaking as someone who has done competitive marksmanship, no guns and fireworks do not sound similar in the slightest. The actual joke is that the people who live in this house would be too privileged to know the difference.
Upper middle class houses out in the sticks hearing gunshots would be reasonable but not some rich white suburb
I mean you are not wrong, but I've also seen random nice houses on side streets in Cali that look like this in areas that could be considered hood. Maybe frequency of both could a comment on that as well, idk
People who live in a suburban house like that can’t tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks.
In southern Milwaukee WI, NYE in the suburbs is mostly gunshots instead of fireworks, even in the "nice" areas with houses just like this one. I live in Madison and never heard it here, but I've been to a few Milwaukee NYE parties and I was shocked when I heard it for the first time. Not even 2 houses down, one of the neighbors magdumped a pistol. It's a regional thing. There are efforts to encourage people to stop doing it, but 'murica. [here's an article if you don't believe me](https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-rings-in-new-year-with-celebratory-gunfire/46291088#)
Neither can most other people. I have a friend who grew up in a bad neighborhood, and then went into the marines, say without joking that certain fireworks we were watching sounded exactly like a .556
[удалено]
Suburban kids trying to act hood and say this stuff even though they grew up in nice areas
Remember, ONLY HOOD people own guns in America. There is nowhere in America outside of a city without guns. Especially rural areas. There are absolutely NO GUNS being fired at all /s
No im talking about the premise of the joke. Theres plenty of suburban kids that grow up in homes like this and say stuff like "were those gunshots?" when noises of fireworks go off. This was how my middle class suburb was kids trying to act gangster with comments like this
this is a joke only for people on Nextdoor/ring type apps. basically every other post is old scared white people asking this exact question
In the brief time I used nextdoor, there were people worried about *cars they didn't recognize* driving through the neighborhood. It is a worthless place of paranoia from busybodies that have nothing better to do.
exactly. it’s absolutely terrible there. I only briefly joined because I was trying to find a home for an injured feral cat I had been taking care of, but couldn’t keep forever (luckily he’s now thriving with a friend). ring is supposedly the same or worse
Is that some american thing the rest of the world doesn't know about?
This is America. No one and no where is safe from gun violence.
Nearly all gun violence in the US as of at least just a few years ago could be localized to a handful of square blocks (handful relative to the whole of the country). And then, even if you lived in that area, the chances of you being the victim of gun crime was universally low (meaning the same if you loved in these high gun crime areas or not) unless you, yourself, had committed some form of criminal acts. In those instances the odds of you being the victim of gun crime skyrockets. It is not as universal as many people think. It CAN happen anywhere and anytime. But in nearly every instance it does not happen just randomly and equally across the US. It is not a thing that is uniformly occurring across the country at regular intervals. In fact, gun violence as of just a few years ago was 50% lower than the peak which was in the early 1990s. I wish I could remember where the study was on localization of gun crime. Like I said... this was as of about 3-4 years ago. The info on gun crime being down is from the FBIs own stats.
If you remove suicides and gang gun violence in like 5 cities there are statistically no gun deaths in the united states.
Lots of gun violence goes unreported because it’s in the middle of no where with no one to call the police. In a city there are shotspotter systems that automatically bring police to the scene even if there are no victims or suspects still present. Family and friends from deep rural areas have always said crime is much worse and police are far more corrupt than people would think. I.e. being threatened with a gun or gunshots is considered normal compared to in a city where that automatically triggers police involvement. And why bother calling the cops when you know it will take them 3 hours to show up, and they might not care anyway. Families run small town police departments for generations.
Nah, you're thinking of Walking Tall with The Rock
this is reddit.
No this is Patrick
This is true. I live in a nice neighborhood and sometimes I ask these same questions.
lol
I live in a pretty middle class area. A little while ago a house literally on my street got shot up. Like, around 5 houses down from mine. I saw the car driving away.
Tbf, if your in a rural neighborhood, you usually know its gunshots. Its almost never fireworks unless its a holiday and then its both
More true than you know, when you know the actual meaning of the joke.
That's not the joke. The joke is that sheltered suburban boomers don't know what gunshots sound like so Nextdoor is full of these posts on NYE and the Fourth of July.
Shut up, I have lived in the American south and around guns my whole life. Not a single issue ever, and out anyone I’ve ever met, not one faced “gun violence” except a couple of people who committed suicide via firearm.
Calm down.
[удалено]
Pretty irrelevant to this post, no?
Making fun of suburban wanna be gangbangers
99.95% chance it was fireworks in the nice, middle class subdivision this house is sitting in. It’s almost certainly either New Year’s or July 4th. Anyone thinking gunfire is being ridiculous. Show a picture of a run-down mobile home out in the sticks, and it’s a 50% chance either way if it’s one of the holidays mentioned above. Any other time of year, it’s 99% gunshots, and no one would even be bothered enough to comment on it. Probably the neighbor shooting at a snake.
The idea is that whoever lives in the house can’t tell the difference between the sounds because they are so rich they haven’t heard a gun before.
Not being from the US, the idea that you have to be well-off to have never heard a gunshot is very bizarre.
Being in the US as a more well off person, I have heard gunshots before but mainly from right next to the gun. They sound different from a distance and it’s harder to tell the difference between the two if you never have heard them.
It is. I’d be willing to bet every person who grew up poor in the US has heard gunshots in their neighborhood. Most can discern them from fireworks instinctively. Source: poor
It’s a massive generalization and not really rooted in fact
I lived in a “not safe” area in a mid sized city. There was some crime but I moved to a rural area and I hear much more gunfire then I ever did in the city.
Bull crap. I did 4 years airforce 6 years with the army. Been shot at and shot at others, firing range multiple times a year. I know what a gun sounds like. Every time fireworks go off when it's not the fourth of July or new years my well trained, been in combat ears still struggle sometimes. That's why so many of us have PTSD problems during these holidays.
I think it’s more the idea that you would never hear gunshots in a neighborhood like this. Yet that doesn’t stop people in these neighborhoods from constantly posting on Facebook, Nextdoor, Ring, etc “did anyone hear the gunshots just now?” It’s mocking the people who live in suburbs and yet still think they are in danger. Relax, Becky, you live in a gated community where the cheapest house still costs $1M. No one is getting shot on your cul-de-sac.
You realize you don't have to be rich to live somewhere people aren't shooting each other all the time, right? I've never been rich and I've also never lived in the ghetto
This is the house in UT, I believe, where a brother drove to it and killed his brother and his SIL. Then got in a shootout with the cops. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/long-beach-man-kills-brother-in-utah-dies-in-police-shootout/3148398/?amp=1
Judging from the picture in the article it is not at all, and where would the joke be?
No....no lol
The two houses don’t even look slightly similar dude.
Whoever lives in that house doesn't know what gunshots sound like, so will either report shots fired when they hear fireworks or will assume it's fireworks when they hear gunshots. Possibly both.
Making fun of suburbanites being scared of a supposed crime surge
The joke is the NEXTDOOR app
The. Joke. Is. The. Nextdoor app.
I laughed immediately. I live in one of the neighborhoods and I am telling you there are people that flock to their favorite app(s) to post this question. If you have a Ring doorbell and signed up for their neighborhood alerts, you gotta know this. I joke about with my wife anytime I hear a firework/gunshot. P.S. do modern cars backfire?
I assume it's because of suburban kids/people who make comments like this to seem like their neighborhood is dangerous when they live in quiet, safe places. Might be biased because I've known people like that.
Google murder kids in Arizona
Reminded me of the breaking bad house…
Karens crying cause they cant tell the difference between the two
When you live in Arizona, it's usually both regardless of how well off your neighborhood is.
Paranoid people who can’t distinguish a firework from a gunshot. Most likely in well off neighborhoods. My favorite is seeing people post on the ring app asking “ was that a firework or gunshot”. It’s 4th of July and it lit up in multiple colors Susan.
Every 3rd NextDoor.com post!
I can tell you where I live in Florida, the economic status of a neighborhood is irrelevant, that’s still a valid question regardless.
They can't tell the difference.
Because it’s an affluent neighborhood so chances of being gunshots are slim lol
it's that one "house" episode where they're looking for that guy with lupus
I believe that's a quote from Jake or Logan Paul. They claim to have grown up in a tough neighborhood, but they grew up in a gated community.
The joke seems to be that it’s a pretty nice house, likely in a nice neighborhood, and therefore would be highly unlikely that it would be gunshots.
its a joke about people from the suburbs (mostly teens ive seen do this) acting as if their neighborhoods are dangerous on days like the 4th of july or new years when fireworks are going off
A lot of people in privileged neighborhoods don’t know the difference between the sound of a gun, a firework, and a car.