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In Dorchester, driver crashes when he hears gunfire - that turns out to be fireworks
By adamg on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:38pm
Jason Grover reports the driver of this car thought he'd come under fire this evening and was so shook up, he crashed his car at Columbia Road and Hamlet Street. In fact, it was fireworks, not gunfire, Grover - who said he got a whiff of that distinctive fireworks smell - says:
There were a series of sharp cracks that could have been mistaken for gunshots then our building shook.
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Well.
So highly anticlimactic...
That's a heck of a right hand jerk!
Pop pop pop makes this person yank a 40 degree right hand turn into a lightpole (which was two feet in front of a brick building)?
Methinks
he has a reason to believe that someone would be shooting at him.
Reality Check: Basic fight or flight!
Be a little empathetic, geesh. Clearly this demonstrates the TRAUMA that inner city residents have experienced from hearing the shots, reading about neighborhood shootings, and having to always feel alert. He we in fight or flight mode so he did what he had to do. I lived in Dorchester for half my life and when we hear fireworks, we are always on alert...so while you're in your cozy bubble, don't criticize someone for feelings unsafe in their own neighborhood.
Thank you.
I've embarrassed myself more than once hitting the ground far away from home and any hint of violence, and with all the fireworks now (which are actually sometimes a way to "confuse" the shotspotter, even though it doesn't work), I'm constantly on alert. It's a stress that many people function with as their normal.
or maybe
...he's a veteran with PTSD and these sounds flip him out. Who knows. Could be lots of things. It's not all that bizarre that someone should be frightened of what they think are gunshots.
Thats crazy atleast he wasnt
Thats crazy atleast he wasnt really under fire. If he was he might have been in trouble. You cant rec your car when fleeing from a gunmen
It's official
Time to cut back on the coffee intake dude.
Balloons
This reminds me of this one time that I went to a birthday party at Chez Vous, the roller rink near Blue Hill Ave. It was daylight when we left and I was asked to take the balloons home. I shoved them all into my back seat. My friend and I were in the front seat, with the windows cracked, at a red light and I was getting annoyed because the balloons were blocking my view and drifting all over the car so I instructed my friend to pop them. As she started popping them, this guy that was standing on the corner waiting to cross dropped down to the ground. I didn't understand immediately why, but when he got up and looked at us, he pointed to us and shook his head in disbelief. He eventually cracked a smile when we gave him the "Oh my god, I'm sorry" face. He was a good sport about it. We felt like giant assholes but were completely naive about the situation having not grown up in a neighborhood where hearing gunshots is commonplace.
Yeah Right
Michele McPhee's got every excuse in the book.
'Tis the Season...
Firecrackers and fireworks from now until the beginning of August. We heard our first ones of the year last night.
Pro tip: Gunfire doesn't have crackle sounds after the pop.
same
we live in the area. my husband heard the same noise as he was getting our daughter out of the car and then, a few seconds later, two cars went roaring down our one way street *the wrong way*... needless to say he scooted right in the house!
seems this poor guy wasn't the only one who thought they were gunshots.