Baltimore "Block Party" Shooting

[BigRed]

A Baltimore Party, a Hail of Gunfire and a Neighborhood Shattered

The shooting on Sunday in the city’s Brooklyn neighborhood killed two people and wounded 28 others.

www.nytimes.com

When I was younger, a "block party" was an event where families (read as a mom, a dad, and their kids) in the neighborhood would do a pitch in dinner / cookout and take an evening to catch up with each other. We often had "yard games" and such. Most often, some folks from the police department or fire department would stop by to hang out. The cops would talk to kids and let them "run the siren and turn on the lights". Firemen would let kids climb the truck and they would set up the "biggest yard sprinkler" in town for kids to cool off in.

Sounds like "culture" has "progressed" since then.

Or, perhaps, it is a different "culture".

After all, "block party" has been redefined. Why not "culture"?

 

[Bugzilla]

Maybe Baltimore needs stricter gun laws.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

A Baltimore Party, a Hail of Gunfire and a Neighborhood Shattered

The shooting on Sunday in the city’s Brooklyn neighborhood killed two people and wounded 28 others.

www.nytimes.com

When I was younger, a "block party" was an event where families (read as a mom, a dad, and their kids) in the neighborhood would do a pitch in dinner / cookout and take an evening to catch up with each other. We often had "yard games" and such. Most often, some folks from the police department or fire department would stop by to hang out. The cops would talk to kids and let them "run the siren and turn on the lights". Firemen would let kids climb the truck and they would set up the "biggest yard sprinkler" in town for kids to cool off in.

Sounds like "culture" has "progressed" since then.

Or, perhaps, it is a different "culture".

After all, "block party" has been redefined. Why not "culture"?

There was another "block party" last night at 32nd and Forest Manor. Same type of activities at that one. Strangely, all the witnesses took off before police arrived. Huh. Go figure.

16-year-old dead, 4 injured after shooting at east Indianapolis block party

The shooting happened shortly after 11 p.m. Monday on Forest Manor Avenue, near East 32nd Street.

www.wthr.com

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Perhaps some "cultures" are just too violent to be allowed to gather in large groups, eh?

Fort Worth mass shooting: Three killed and eight wounded at July 4 fireworks display

The massacre unfolded just before midnight on Monday night as revellers gathered to enjoy Independence Day celebrations in the area of Diaz Avenue and Horne Street in Fort Worth’s Como neighbourhood

www.independent.co.uk

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Wonder how the Fourth Fest will go downtown this evening.

 

[tim87tr]

Cops at a block party. I've always laughed at these NSFW bloopers Fox New videos that made it on air.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Wonder how the Fourth Fest will go downtown this evening.

I'm not holding my breath that it is uneventful.

It hasn't hit the news yet but BGPD prevented a shooting at the BG fireworks last night. Apparently some juvenile out-of-towner got his ass beat during the event and was in the process of chambering a round in his pistol so he could get his revenge when he was tackled by officers.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I'm not holding my breath that it is uneventful.

It hasn't hit the news yet but BGPD prevented a shooting at the BG fireworks last night. Apparently some juvenile out-of-towner got his ass beat during the event and was in the process of chambering a round in his pistol so he could get his revenge when he was tackled by officers.

WTHR said there will be 150 officers patrolling downtown tonight, so we'll see.

You know, I was just thinking... I don't recall hearing of any incidents at the Italian Festival or the now defunct Irish Festival. Wonder what the difference is? 'tis a puzzlement.

 

[Twangbanger]

I'm not holding my breath that it is uneventful.

It hasn't hit the news yet but BGPD prevented a shooting at the BG fireworks last night. Apparently some juvenile out-of-towner got his ass beat during the event and was in the process of chambering a round in his pistol so he could get his revenge when he was tackled by officers.

Empty chamber will get you kilt arrested.

 

[BigRed]

Wonder how the Fourth Fest will go downtown this evening.

Considered going for a bit, then decided to pass. Just don't feel like the risk is worth the reward.

Large crowds seem to attract a lot of garbage these days

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Considered going for a bit, then decided to pass. Just don't feel like the risk is worth the reward.

I don't like crowds, and besides, I will have been asleep for at least 2 hours before the fireworks start.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Considered going for a bit, then decided to pass. Just don't feel like the risk is worth the reward.

Large crowds seem to attract a lot of garbage these days

I wouldn't be downtown if I wasn't working. And I'm assigned to the roof where they are launching the fireworks so I don't have to deal with the crowds.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I'm not holding my breath that it is uneventful.

It hasn't hit the news yet but BGPD prevented a shooting at the BG fireworks last night. Apparently some juvenile out-of-towner got his ass beat during the event and was in the process of chambering a round in his pistol so he could get his revenge when he was tackled by officers.

As Sgt Phil Esterhaus said back in the day,

 

[BigRed]

I wouldn't be downtown if I wasn't working. And I'm assigned to the roof where they are launching the fireworks so I don't have to deal with the crowds.

I didn't get any fireworks this year....just going to run a box of shells to the sky through my 12 gauge later tonight.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

And I'm assigned to the roof where they are launching the fireworks

 

[BigRed]

I didn't get any fireworks this year....just going to run a box of shells to the sky through my 12 gauge later tonight.

I'll be tossing beer bottles on the air and knocking them down. That stops the pellets so it's safe.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I wouldn't be downtown if I wasn't working. And I'm assigned to the roof where they are launching the fireworks so I don't have to deal with the crowds.

So the choices include: (a) in a crowd with violent yoots and assorted miscreants; or (b) on a rooftop with a metric ****-ton of stuff that goes BOOM!! I think b is the better choice. You get to hang out on a roof with dudes named "Boom-Boom".

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

So the choices include: (a) in a crowd with violent yoots and assorted miscreants; or (b) on a rooftop with a metric ****-ton of stuff that goes BOOM!! I think b is the better choice. You get to hang out on a roof with dudes named "Boom-Boom".

You forgot about Lefty and Pirate Steve. Aargh.

 

[bobzilla]

So the choices include: (a) in a crowd with violent yoots and assorted miscreants; or (b) on a rooftop with a metric ****-ton of stuff that goes BOOM!! I think b is the better choice. You get to hang out on a roof with dudes named "Boom-Boom".

Well and if it goes wrong you’ll never know.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

So the choices include: (a) in a crowd with violent yoots and assorted miscreants; or (b) on a rooftop with a metric ****-ton of stuff that goes BOOM!! I think b is the better choice. You get to hang out on a roof with dudes named "Boom-Boom".

Stuff that goes boom doesn't talk, so I'll take it over yoots any day of the week. Haven't heard any of the pyrotechnicians nicknames though, and they all seem to have all their limbs/digits.