Gunshots on Washington Avenue

Subject: Shots fired

A friend of mine was there when it happened. His focus is more about himself, naturally, but he's got a description.

Shots fired in the middle of the afternoon. Nuts.

Subject: Re: Shots fired

ugarte wrote: A friend of mine was there when it happened. His focus is more about himself, naturally, but he's got a description.

Shots fired in the middle of the afternoon. Nuts.

wow, glad your friend is ok. I'm totally not glad that this happened, apparently, right across the street from my apartment building. awesome.

Wow! Another schmuch making outstandingly bigoted remarks involving black people! That's new and original KWAC. Outstanding effort and nice job writing something completely unoriginal and offensive! Keep up the good work, my lad!

Subject: Yeah, no bullet Holes...

...because the guy who was doing the shooting was the worst shot ever. If you're going to do broad day light shootings, atleast use some sort of accuracy.

Seriously. I have no clue where the bullets hit.


Oh, I'm the idiot who's blog was listed above.


Fun times.

I don't know what started the incident, but what I saw was some guy running down Washington ave towards Eastern Parkway and a dude in a car firing.

I didnt actually see the faces of either. I'm not sure if im suffering hysterical memeory lost or what. But I do clearly remember seeing a gun firing. Not the most enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.

Fuck that it sucks big time! Do you talk to anyone who happens to hang out on Washington Avenue?

It'd be fair to say that if you knew the intended victim. It'd be fair to say that if you even knew someone who knew the intended victim. Then you could say it sucked for someone and certainly not yourselves who just go to work and come home.

A shooting anywhere sucks. I feel like what happened in Queens last weekend REALLY SUCKS. And I don't care how close ths is to my home. None of you or I were the intended targets of this shooting and that is the bottom line. This is not a case of random violence. This is something that went on between two people.

Fuck that shit with the "it sucks" bit because it's just around the corner from me shit.

We live in a violent country with violent leaders doing shit everywhere.

LeeHo wrote: Fuck that it sucks big time! Do you talk to anyone who happens to hang out on Washington Avenue?

Well I do talk to myself, so I guess I do.

leeho wrote:

It'd be fair to say that if you knew the intended victim. It'd be fair to say that if you even knew someone who knew the intended victim. Then you could say it sucked for someone and certainly not yourselves who just go to work and come home.

A shooting anywhere sucks. I feel like what happened in Queens last weekend REALLY SUCKS. And I don't care how close ths is to my home. None of you or I were the intended targets of this shooting and that is the bottom line. This is not a case of random violence. This is something that went on between two people.

Fuck that shit with the "it sucks" bit because it's just around the corner from me shit.

That's ridiculous. It in fact DOES suck when the place you call home or an area that you work in every day has gun fire erupting in the middle of the fucking day.

Kids are walking down the street. I was fricken walking down the street. Yeah, douche bag was aiming for some dude, but that guy got away so obviously he wasn't that great a shot. Anybody could have been hit. It would have definitely sucked if you got randomly hit over some bullshit that has nothing to do with you.

I like my neighborhoods safe. And as long as shots are being fired, it fricken sucks.

A shmuck is someone who justifies shootings in broad daylight on a busy commercial strip at 2:45 pm when kids are getting out from school. These are not random isolated incidents. The fact is that the victim/perp is a Male black, who just happens to be on parole, whats bigoted about that statement? Thats factual! Whats also factual is that (14) 45 cal. shell casings were recovered at the scene, any of those bullets could have struck an unintended target. But ofcourse you're not outraged at that? Wheres Al Sharpton now? I guess black on black crime doesn't make the press?

LeeHo wrote: My point is that it is a random occurrence, and not the norm, to have gunplay on Washington Ave these days.

You seem to be resigned to the fact that violence occurs every once in a while and that there's nothing that can be done about it. No. There's a high correlation between shootings and other illegal activity; Shootings are probably a good barometer of the level of lawlessness in a given neighborhood. So, while people are chiding others for being concerned with people gambling in the streets, while people turn a blind eye to the dealer on the block because well, they see him everyday and he says 'hi' to them and because, 'well, he's never bothered me,' while all this shit is going on, you're nurturing the type of environment that breeds violence.

Also, I can't help but point out a double standard - weren't you all hopped up because cops tackled some guy that was in the vicinity at the time of a shooting? A guy that resisted questioning from them? How is it that that situation is so outrageous to you while this one (attempted murder, innocent third parties potentially in the crossfire) is so, "meh, it happens - nothing you can do about it"?

LeeHo wrote: This is not a case of random violence. This is something that went on between two people.

No, this is expressly NOT something that went on between two people. When you drive up in your car on a street full of people in broad daylight, and fire a weapon out of the window this is between you and EVERYONE who is within stricking distance of your bullets. When you fire a gun in a public place you make it the business of the ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD.

None of these folks are marksmen. Most of them couldn't hit the side of a barn if they were standing in it. The thing that stopped this from being random violence is that a bullet didn't fly through a storefront or up the block and hit some innocent bystander.

King without a crown wrote: A shmuck is someone who justifies shootings in broad daylight on a busy commercial strip at 2:45 pm when kids are getting out from school. These are not random isolated incidents. The fact is that the victim/perp is a Male black, who just happens to be on parole, whats bigoted about that statement? Thats factual! Whats also factual is that (14) 45 cal. shell casings were recovered at the scene, any of those bullets could have struck an unintended target. But ofcourse you're not outraged at that? Wheres Al Sharpton now? I guess black on black crime doesn't make the press?

What does victim/perp mean here? Surely they weren't the same person.

I also don't really see what Sharpton has to do with any of this. Is it really his fault that black-on-black crime doesn't make the press? Really?

I do agree that the whole thing sucks, though. I will also make the bold statement that stuff that happens around the corner from me affects me more than similar stuff happening in a different borough or city.

I looked at this post specifically to see how long it would take LeeHo to bitch about everyone talking about it. Obviously, I wasn't disappointed.

go anywhere where there's a shooting around the block and i think you'll find people are uncomfortable. it isn't normal life. and if it happens a lot that's reason to be more uncomfortable, not less. we are not living in a war-zone. it is reasonable to expect not to see a firing weapon when you walk down washington.