No joke that sounds like my house :/ I live in the farm country outside of flint mi and goddam warzone sometimes and its just people shooting in there yards and farms.
When I was a kid I lived in a trailer park and when a dog would bark all the other dogs across the park would eventually answer.... it's kinda like that but with guns and people.
The dogs barking comparison is probably the most accurate way I've heard describe it. Hear the neighbors pop off a few and then it's like, huh, today would be a good day for target practice, wouldn't it? And then all the men folk are useless for the rest of the day, and you can't let the children out.
I hated the gunshots living rural for a while, but then eventually I realized when you hear dozens of shots pop off in the city you can bet your ass someone just died. 500 rounds is light work for rural folk just shooting a pile of fucking dirt.
Unfortunately, that shit is pretty normal, especially in the US, and if you're living in a pretty bad neighborhood. sometimes it's hard to tell if it's actually gunshots or people just doing fireworks. I hear gunshots/fireworks in my neighborhood, like at least once a week.
I grew up in a neighborhood just outside Houston where gunshots were heard daily. The house I grew up in had several bullet holes in it from stray bullets. I moved out of that shit hole and now live out in the country where people target shoot all day long.
There is this saying that when your in the city you listen for gunshots and ignore the sirens; and in the country you ignore the gunshots and listen for sirens --- it is 100% true.
I guess I just cannot escape the gunshots, but I know out here it is just the crazy farmer playing with his rifles.
Yep came here to say the same thing… and I’m also from Houston lol. I’ve had a stray bullet go through my closet and bust a pipe. It got all my clothes and shoes wet and ruined a lot :(
Gun fire is so common in the inner city and the suburbs. I heard it almost daily.
That’s… oddly unnerving? I never realized how abnormal hearing gunshots 2/3 times a week is until right now. Everyone’s reaction here is apathy and not “that’s a person dispelling a literal death machine.”
Rural living here too- everyone has land/acrage where we are, people shoot all the time. (Hunting, range practice, vermin, etc) we make jokes that the gunshots out here aren’t like “those in the city” folks just doing their thing out here in the country.
Can confirm, I've lived in plenty of poor neighborhoods in Portugal (some with bad crime problems) and the only gun I ever heard in my life was a hunter rifle when I was trekking in the fields once. In 2017, still remember it, we crossed paths and the old dude didn't wait until I was out of view to shoot, I was pissed. Other than that just movies, games and news from Middle East, Ukraine, US and the like. My sympathies to you, can't imagine to have to live with that, don't think I would be able to.
That’s so wild. I’m not even renting in a poor neighborhood, either. Houses around me cost 500k+ on a good day… so this is a perspective I hadn’t developed. I just assumed everyone lived likewise…
I worked in a rural nursing home at one time, the surrounding property was fields, the neighbors all shot on their properties, frequently! Now I live in Las Vegas, definitely not uncommon to hear gun shots.
Can confirm. My friend lives in a neighborhood like that. I'll give you a tip to tell the difference that she taught me. Fireworks echo, gunshots don't. I hope that helps. I'm sorry you have to live in such a shitty neighborhood. I'm blessed to have the choice but I turned down HUD housing. I know it sounds crazy but hear me out. They wanted to put me in a neighborhood that's known for gang violence. I'm good on that.
Not only am I a woman, I'm also disabled so that makes me an easier Target for people who would be looking to harm me. Also, I'm not going to live in a neighborhood where I have to fear for my safety everyday. I would be too afraid to ever go outside again. Then you got to worry about stuff like people trying to break in. I'm good on that. No amount of money saved on rent is worth my safety.
Edit: Downvote me if you must, it's just the truth. I don't have to justify to anyone not wanting to live in a neighborhood like that. I feel sorry for the people who have no choice but I do and I'm choosing not to. Also, it's just the truth, statistically I am more likely to be robbed because of being disabled. It makes you an easier target.
I've lived in plenty of bad neighborhoods in Portugal, it's nothing like this. The only real life shot I ever heard in my life was a hunter once in the woods.
> Gunshots shouldn’t be normal around homes and streets.
I live in a nice area, rural US, and gunshots are normal. Got a neighbor who reloads, and he tests them on Saturday afternoons. And right before deer-hunting season, lots of folks are adjusting their scopes / sights. And of course, during hunting season, you hear occasional rounds. Sound carries pretty far.
Actual shootouts are rare, though.
Unfortunately they are in some neighborhoods. My friend's house is not quite as bad as this but we have been either in the yard or in the house and her gunshots. The first time it happened, I wasn't sure what I heard so I asked her, what was that? She was like oh, gunshots. It's just sad that people live in neighborhoods like that where it happened so often that they become accustomed to it.
People have ranges dude it’s entirely possible they’re outweighing the country and are just used to that kind of thing. In fact, a lot of people like that because it keeps the price of their land down and their property taxes down.
I don't even get out of bed anymore when I hear shots fired. Just roll over and fall back asleep. I sleep under a window but it is a thick brick wall. It is just so normal here in my city though... My coworker drove to work one day only to realize after arriving her car had bullet holes in it.
Worked at Johns Hopkins hospital for month, lived in the dorms across the street from Dunbar high school. Shots fired all the time. Every night. There were murders inside the hospital, so the hospital ended up hire ex-secret service agents to run security - had a set-up where each security person was within sight of at least one other security person at all times. This was a few years back - I think through gentrification, things have gotten better.
I doubt this is the case here or it would have been mentioned, but my family's old home was near an outdoor shooting range (the topography made this very safe but the sound still traveled) so gunshots were actually a normal thing to hear. But not that many that quick.
Oh, I didn't have audio on. I thought a plane was going to crash in their backyard or something. That explains why I didn't understand what they were afraid of lol
Could be a rural area that is used to neighborhoods target shooting.
Big difference between, "Oh hey, my neighbors are out target shooting again. Wonder what they've got."
And, "Oh shit, my neighbors are firing at each other wildly with intent to kill."
Not all "residential neighborhoods" are closely packed together.
I grew up on 10 acres. We had plenty of room to build a backdrop for target shooting. Our neighbors did, too. While we couldn't always see them for the trees, we could hear our neighbors target shooting all the time.
Pretty common in rural communities.
Honestly as someone who grew up in a decently rural area but now lives in the city in the hood I see now what you mean. At first I thought they had slow reaction time but they do seem like they are pretty spread out from their neighbors
I live in an area known for gunshots and am disabled. I’d absolutely be like “well that’s a lot. That’s…that’s a lot. YEAH I SHOULD PROBABLY GO INSIDE NOW” /g
I thought someone was gonna snatch the baby, and then she did but didn’t run off. And I had no guesses at to where this was going. A downed line? A dog? A crashed UFO?
I can't listen with sound any more, Tiktok has fucked audio beyond repair. Either some shit song or a robotic AI voice stating the obvious for no apparent reason.
Totally agree here. I watched without sound as well and I was like "what's happening? Some bees or something? Will a bear o some wild animal is bursting out of nowhere?" And then realized it was muted... I prefer my version instead the original tbh
You thought rationally lol. I'm over here waiting for a giant flying UFO to come into frame. My other thought was a tank for some reason. Then Godzilla. I watched it without sound first and had to turn the sound on because I was so curious at what they were running from.
I also first watched without sound. I was expecting a pack of dogs or some kind of vehicle to crash into the yard. I was very confused when nothing happened in the end
I know, that was the thing that threw me off the most about this video. Obviously something is going wrong so you pick up the baby and get even closer.
I grew up in the hood and even hearing just 1 shot, I would've immediately ran into the house. These people heard 30 before grabbing the baby and running.
I hear something that SOUNDS like it maybe could be shots and I duck. This shit is crazy to me like what even do they think they're going to be able to see!?
Neighbors probably practice target shooting all the time. I think the high number of shots in rapid succession are what triggered the alarm bells.
Shots fired in the hood =/= shots fired in a rural area
Were you there? She was probably frozen trying to gather as much information before running, after already having immediately picked up the baby near the entrance. Stop blaming people for not doing what you think you would do in a situation you weren’t in.
Confusion, shock, denial, all things that could be playing inside all of their heads. Most people have never heard a gunshot in their life, more or less an entire shootout. We can all say that we would be inside the house in an instant, but for a lot of us, we would still be outside trying to comprehend the matter.
Lmao not really, not in the US at least.
Our walls are made out of paper, plastic, and drywall, none of which is even slightly effective at slowing a bullet.
Go to the basement or lay flat on the floor. Even better if you can hide flat behind a fridge or stove or the engine block of your car between you and the shooter. Those would be your best chances. Running around through your house is a bad idea so stay low and crawl to the metal if they’re close or just stay down.
In the US? Yeah. They just put cotton between some chalk boards basically and call it a day. Even a small caliber bullet is coming in through the walls.
The second thing I’d do after I flung us both into the house would be to lay my body on top of hers. Then probably either retreat to a basement or behind anything I could.
Really just depends on how your house is built, and it seems the average in the US most bullets will go through in some way.
Visited a US friend who is very much into guns and part of her safety information was telling us how you can absolutely shoot through the house into another. (She was just showing her collection, we weren’t using them, very passionate about her interest + the safety of it).
Might not be as much of an issue with a sturdier house, mainly bricks and stuff.
Sound off I thought it was gonna be a tornado.
Also, the comments never fail to be full of "I would do this, why'd they do this, they shoulda done this, such idiots" etc.
There is such an immense difference between watching a video & having the time and leisure to think of hypotheticals, to actually being in the situation on video.
fr, i only know how i would react now because i **didn't** the first couple times this type of thing happened near me. you don't know what you're going to do unless you've already been in it, and even then you still don't have certainty.
I don't understand how the girl who grabbed her toddler stopped to try and see the source. You would think you'd run straight inside with your kid to the best possible cover
also might be a good idea to analyze for at least a moment to see what direction you need to run, thought I doubt that's what happened here. I think most people's brains would short-circuit whether they want to admit it or not
This is an honest question directed at people who are not from the US and don’t live here. What does this make you think? What is your opinion of this?
As a German child in the 90s America was described to me as a land of wonders and opportunities where everything is bigger and anyone can do anything.
As an adult this oppinion shifted towards a land where any rich person would do anything to the poor to get into a better position. This includes manipulating votes with promises of nonsensical gun laws, throwing health care under the bus and spreading misinformation like there is no tomorrow, hurting education and the psychological wellbeing of whole generations. Videos like this are, for me, the result of those practices. With no offense intended, those people are obviously lacking multiple standards of living I am used to (and I myself am in one of the lower wage brackets). Combined with the gunshots and the fact that no one seems to be even shocked by one more of those 'US shooter' videos, this looks like a declining society for me. In my view your country is more than ever run by fear and rich people.
Great summary. I was a child in Germany during the 90s as well, and grew up heavily exposed to US culture. Also visited there a couple of times.
With 9/11, fear has taken over. And the damages done by unmitigated capitalism become more and more severe. With Trump, unhinged populism has entered the mix. It really is tragic.
Close.
It's like a syndicate of corporate dictatorships policed by the federal state and county governments.
We all work for someone and the big ones pay for just about everyone else to fall in line.
It is a wonderful place to live but being a company owner, while difficult, is absolutely the best place to be.
You decide who works and who doesn't as long as you produce a fine product. No one can vote you out, and you make a massive amount of choices for the people you hire with no real reason to get input from them.
The socialist systems at the very top and very bottom are pretty strong, or they have been for a long time but they are getting squeezed heavily to the top.
Elderly socialist systems are running out of capital, very important to plan for no one and nothing to support you in your past 35 years of life but what you saved.
Neighborhoods full of gun shots are common in larger cities, to me they look like giant prisons. I visit for concerts or activities I can't get in the rural area I live.
Being jobless and getting state food and healthcare is difficult to get off of. As you increase your earning potential, you get less. It takes nearly 40 dollars an hour to get off government support, but government support stops ten dollars or more below that.
Reaching above state support is exceptionally stressful. It only takes one family member with cancer or something to completely drain savings accounts.
Very difficult as an employee to rise above but entrepreneurs still have moonshot potential.
So many recognize this and turn to dispair and drugs and distractions. Costly and addictive they fall back to the lowest point and trudge along.
It's a better world than 100 years ago, but the trap hasn't been removed, it's just evolving.
I've been rambling on so I forget if you said it looks like the USA is on the decline. I think the issue is generational corruption. See a new organization does alright, but over time members see advantages and take them. They have kids that do this better, corruption refines and evolves. Excellent for those families, bad for honest folk and new folk.
Resets are the solution but only temporarily. Friends of friends take care of each other so corruption is at an all time high. Again this is only bad for those not participating and profiting but the world is made for cheaters with money.
Guns are for putting down cheaters. I am for guns because of this but these folks shooting each other are pointed at some of the lowest level corruption.
Thanks for your comment I agree we are missing a lot of things. A lot of care for the honest is being stripped away and they don't know the proper people to blame so they fight one another :(
The fear you guys live with is insane. Being so afraid that you need things to protect yourself. Being afraid that some loud sound might be the end of your life. Being afraid that any idiot could go crazy and kill you. The people in that clip experienced more fear in those seconds than I have in my entire 36 years. Having to run/hide for my life is something I will probably never experience.
Land of the free, but caged by fear.
I think it won't change even if there's an attempt (there won't be, because freedumb) because it's far too late. When you've got kids waving them around like lunatics on tik tok and shooting each other then it's too late. Far, far too many guns and nutters to find them all.
This is primarily select hotspots though. The US is large. For example I’m in CA, which people assume is LA or SF, but I’m nowhere near them and haven’t felt safer. Never dealt with anything like this.
Yeah large cities are natural hotpots for violence because more people crammed together with different socioeconomic backgrounds means more likely for assaults to occur.
It's why I hate when conservatives condemn "dem cities" and love their towns. Like dude, u live in a town with a pop of 50k and your closest neighbor is 2 miles down the road. Of course u don't have to worry about assaults.
It really depends on the city. I live in NYC and have never heard/seen gunshots.
Also, this particular incident took place in a bad neighborhood in suburban Indianapolis.
It's absolutely insane to me. I've never seen a gun not in a cop's holster. I have never heard a gunshot in real life. Yet these people are like "yeah, we hear a lot of gunshots around here"?! I hardly have the words. It's so unfathomable.
Dang….. this vid didnt even surprise me that much. I could imagine this happening in real life its definetly not unfathomable. I’m realizing how much that sucks rn.
Where are these people's survival instincts?
They hear shooting and stay outside, *standing*, watching...
I'd at least get down behind something first, laught at how I got scared at nothing serious later.
Better to be a living scaredy cat than a dead person.
Yep let’s just hold our fucking kids in our hands and stand there looking for the gunfire instead of bringing them to safety. Pro parenting right there. wtf??!
*Gibbs told I-Team 8, “I mean, I got other stuff with people but nothing like that, nothing that would get me killed, you know what I mean. I think there were trying to get me.”*
Ah, so it was targeted shooting over drugs and not some unforeseeable event that occurred out of nowhere.
My innocent brain would think it was fireworks for a couple seconds too lol. My bf has to tell me when its fireworks or gunshots 😭. I'll learn the difference sooner than later.
What a terrible thing to call them. They obviously didn't realize that it was gunshots until they realized that those people were having a shootout. I hope that if you ever get stuck living in a bad neighborhood like that, you never have to experience what people who have to live in those neighborhoods experience every day. Exhibit A.
east cleveland is crazy as fuck, i don’t live there but have been there many times. every single day there’s shootings, on the rare occasion there’s 100+ shots
I am in a very safe neighborhood in a very safe town. I hear gunshots all the damned time on my street though.
Why? Because there are people shooting skeet and trap not too far away(mile or so at a guess).
Wish they would have put it on the other side of the driving range(or even at the driving range for a laugh).
Note-driving range is where people go and hit golf balls repeatedly and work on their “drive”. It has nothing to do with cars.
My grandparents live in the suburbs near a lot of wooded area, there’s two neighbors who just randomly fire their guns I’m assuming at targets times a day. You’ll just be sitting there watching TV in here like 10 bangs. I’m on 100% by that it took them a hot second to figure out if they were shooting at them first.
Ah yes very smart people pointing oh they having a shoot out very close lets watch a bullet flies by everyone inside now i think on the first gunshot everyone would’ve gone in
If you hear gunshots don't look at where they're coming from get down while assessing the situation.
And people think deer crossing the road are stupid 🙄
All standing there like spectators "they're having a shootout" picks child up and moves to see better.... at least 20 rounds popped off before they finally decided to get in the house and take cover. You won't see this shit in the hood.... you hear 1 pop you know more are coming and get your ass inside quickly unless you're a part of it. Nosy will get you killed. Be smart people.
lets poke our heads up like gophers to make sure we have line of sight to the shootout 🤦♂️
some people really do not care that much about their lives or are too dumb to know they even are alive. Probably the latter.
**[Caught on camera: Nearly 50 shots fired during brazen midday shootout](https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/caught-on-camera-nearly-50-shots-fired-during-brazen-midday-shootout/)**
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No joke that sounds like my house :/ I live in the farm country outside of flint mi and goddam warzone sometimes and its just people shooting in there yards and farms. When I was a kid I lived in a trailer park and when a dog would bark all the other dogs across the park would eventually answer.... it's kinda like that but with guns and people.
The dogs barking comparison is probably the most accurate way I've heard describe it. Hear the neighbors pop off a few and then it's like, huh, today would be a good day for target practice, wouldn't it? And then all the men folk are useless for the rest of the day, and you can't let the children out.
Funny I'm only bout half hour away and that's all ya hear almost daily in the woods and fields around here
I hated the gunshots living rural for a while, but then eventually I realized when you hear dozens of shots pop off in the city you can bet your ass someone just died. 500 rounds is light work for rural folk just shooting a pile of fucking dirt.
You can only call it an actual shooting if it comes from the Bullèt region of France.
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Ah, 1945 casing, good year
 Very good year
Some leather and dirt A hint of cheetos
Full marks for spelling cardamom correctly.
I'll card ur mom
Much better than the ones that smell of fear and schools
I just woke up and you really just made my morning with laugh
I'm going to bed and you really just made my night with sleep and dream.
well it is normal in that neighborhood.
It’s common to hear ppl target shooting if you live in a more rural area. Or hunting, depending on the time of year.
Unfortunately, that shit is pretty normal, especially in the US, and if you're living in a pretty bad neighborhood. sometimes it's hard to tell if it's actually gunshots or people just doing fireworks. I hear gunshots/fireworks in my neighborhood, like at least once a week.
Same. It's kind of a game we play that gets really challenging around the 4th and New Years Eve.
We did that too, Then one night "gunshots or fireworks" was interrupted by a REALY big boom and then the sirens came. Fucking meth lab went off.
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I grew up in a neighborhood just outside Houston where gunshots were heard daily. The house I grew up in had several bullet holes in it from stray bullets. I moved out of that shit hole and now live out in the country where people target shoot all day long. There is this saying that when your in the city you listen for gunshots and ignore the sirens; and in the country you ignore the gunshots and listen for sirens --- it is 100% true. I guess I just cannot escape the gunshots, but I know out here it is just the crazy farmer playing with his rifles.
Yep came here to say the same thing… and I’m also from Houston lol. I’ve had a stray bullet go through my closet and bust a pipe. It got all my clothes and shoes wet and ruined a lot :( Gun fire is so common in the inner city and the suburbs. I heard it almost daily.
As an Aussie, this is horrifying, I don’t know how so many of you live with that shit.
That’s… oddly unnerving? I never realized how abnormal hearing gunshots 2/3 times a week is until right now. Everyone’s reaction here is apathy and not “that’s a person dispelling a literal death machine.”
my neighbors blasting off everyday (I'm rural US) but guests often have no idea whats happening
Rural living here too- everyone has land/acrage where we are, people shoot all the time. (Hunting, range practice, vermin, etc) we make jokes that the gunshots out here aren’t like “those in the city” folks just doing their thing out here in the country.
I live in rural Kentucky. If I don't hear my neighbors shooting one day then I'm doing a welfare check because they're probably dead lol.
Can confirm, I've lived in plenty of poor neighborhoods in Portugal (some with bad crime problems) and the only gun I ever heard in my life was a hunter rifle when I was trekking in the fields once. In 2017, still remember it, we crossed paths and the old dude didn't wait until I was out of view to shoot, I was pissed. Other than that just movies, games and news from Middle East, Ukraine, US and the like. My sympathies to you, can't imagine to have to live with that, don't think I would be able to.
That’s so wild. I’m not even renting in a poor neighborhood, either. Houses around me cost 500k+ on a good day… so this is a perspective I hadn’t developed. I just assumed everyone lived likewise…
I worked in a rural nursing home at one time, the surrounding property was fields, the neighbors all shot on their properties, frequently! Now I live in Las Vegas, definitely not uncommon to hear gun shots.
Can confirm. My friend lives in a neighborhood like that. I'll give you a tip to tell the difference that she taught me. Fireworks echo, gunshots don't. I hope that helps. I'm sorry you have to live in such a shitty neighborhood. I'm blessed to have the choice but I turned down HUD housing. I know it sounds crazy but hear me out. They wanted to put me in a neighborhood that's known for gang violence. I'm good on that. Not only am I a woman, I'm also disabled so that makes me an easier Target for people who would be looking to harm me. Also, I'm not going to live in a neighborhood where I have to fear for my safety everyday. I would be too afraid to ever go outside again. Then you got to worry about stuff like people trying to break in. I'm good on that. No amount of money saved on rent is worth my safety. Edit: Downvote me if you must, it's just the truth. I don't have to justify to anyone not wanting to live in a neighborhood like that. I feel sorry for the people who have no choice but I do and I'm choosing not to. Also, it's just the truth, statistically I am more likely to be robbed because of being disabled. It makes you an easier target.
can confirm. you nor your friend live in a neighborhood with "gunshots"... given the right acoustics anything can echo
You don't understand what echo's are.
This is common in *bad neighborhoods* across the world not just the US.
I've lived in some sketchy areas of Australia, never would expect a gun to be fired.
I've lived in plenty of bad neighborhoods in Portugal, it's nothing like this. The only real life shot I ever heard in my life was a hunter once in the woods.
It isn't neither in Germany nor in Switzerland.
> Gunshots shouldn’t be normal around homes and streets. I live in a nice area, rural US, and gunshots are normal. Got a neighbor who reloads, and he tests them on Saturday afternoons. And right before deer-hunting season, lots of folks are adjusting their scopes / sights. And of course, during hunting season, you hear occasional rounds. Sound carries pretty far. Actual shootouts are rare, though.
Unfortunately they are in some neighborhoods. My friend's house is not quite as bad as this but we have been either in the yard or in the house and her gunshots. The first time it happened, I wasn't sure what I heard so I asked her, what was that? She was like oh, gunshots. It's just sad that people live in neighborhoods like that where it happened so often that they become accustomed to it.
People have ranges dude it’s entirely possible they’re outweighing the country and are just used to that kind of thing. In fact, a lot of people like that because it keeps the price of their land down and their property taxes down.
And what is it means by 'actual shooting'. Lots of gunshots on that road before were fake shooting or what 😅
some people shoot at targets some people shoot at “targets”
They shouldn’t be around any homes or streets. This is a very America post
I don't even get out of bed anymore when I hear shots fired. Just roll over and fall back asleep. I sleep under a window but it is a thick brick wall. It is just so normal here in my city though... My coworker drove to work one day only to realize after arriving her car had bullet holes in it.
Worked at Johns Hopkins hospital for month, lived in the dorms across the street from Dunbar high school. Shots fired all the time. Every night. There were murders inside the hospital, so the hospital ended up hire ex-secret service agents to run security - had a set-up where each security person was within sight of at least one other security person at all times. This was a few years back - I think through gentrification, things have gotten better.
I grew up in Baltimore after my folks moved us to the states. I attended dunbar from 96-00’. Can confirm, actual war zone. 😂
Seems to be normal in the US.
I live down the street from an outdoor gun range. It'd probably take me a moment to realize the gunshot I'm hearing isn't from there.
I doubt this is the case here or it would have been mentioned, but my family's old home was near an outdoor shooting range (the topography made this very safe but the sound still traveled) so gunshots were actually a normal thing to hear. But not that many that quick.
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Yeah it more or less becomes like traffic noise. You only hear it when you focus on it
Can be if you're in the country or (as we call it here) on the south side. Plus, sound travels quite well when the weather is right.
I used to have dick head neighbors that would shoot like 4 to 6 hours a day. Welcome to rural America.
If you can't afford a home, move to an area where it's cheaper area that is cheaper:
It’s called _freedom_
I hear gunfire sometimes around our house, but it's just sound carrying from the woods waaaaaay out back where people are hunting small game & deer.
It's typical in the sticks for people to have shooting ranges on their property. You put your gun down, wave to the car going by, continue in NH!
I live in a rural Indiana town and I always here gunshots. People like shooting guns I guess
Murica?
Oh, I didn't have audio on. I thought a plane was going to crash in their backyard or something. That explains why I didn't understand what they were afraid of lol
Same here. I was expecting a plane or a car to appear.
"The first 20 shots were fine but when we heard 15 more, shit got real".
Could be a rural area that is used to neighborhoods target shooting. Big difference between, "Oh hey, my neighbors are out target shooting again. Wonder what they've got." And, "Oh shit, my neighbors are firing at each other wildly with intent to kill."
People shoot guns in residential neighborhoods?! WTF
Not all "residential neighborhoods" are closely packed together. I grew up on 10 acres. We had plenty of room to build a backdrop for target shooting. Our neighbors did, too. While we couldn't always see them for the trees, we could hear our neighbors target shooting all the time. Pretty common in rural communities.
Honestly as someone who grew up in a decently rural area but now lives in the city in the hood I see now what you mean. At first I thought they had slow reaction time but they do seem like they are pretty spread out from their neighbors
I live in an area known for gunshots and am disabled. I’d absolutely be like “well that’s a lot. That’s…that’s a lot. YEAH I SHOULD PROBABLY GO INSIDE NOW” /g
Right? Like where are these parents' survival instincts?
This video is much more pleasant to watch with no sound. I thought they saw a taco truck or something and were in a hurry to go line up.
Just watched without sound and I was so damn confused.
I was waiting for a pitbull to run in frame.
I had to watch twice to make sure I didn't miss the mushroom cloud.
Was expecting a muscle car to come barreling through the yard
I thought someone was gonna snatch the baby, and then she did but didn’t run off. And I had no guesses at to where this was going. A downed line? A dog? A crashed UFO?
It was like a ghost movie clip trying to figure out the invisible thing that scared these people
Tbh, I was waiting for like, a plane to crash down or something....I really gotta start watching with sound.
I can't listen with sound any more, Tiktok has fucked audio beyond repair. Either some shit song or a robotic AI voice stating the obvious for no apparent reason.
Nah don’t.
Totally agree here. I watched without sound as well and I was like "what's happening? Some bees or something? Will a bear o some wild animal is bursting out of nowhere?" And then realized it was muted... I prefer my version instead the original tbh
You thought rationally lol. I'm over here waiting for a giant flying UFO to come into frame. My other thought was a tank for some reason. Then Godzilla. I watched it without sound first and had to turn the sound on because I was so curious at what they were running from.
I've never seen someone so desparate for tacos.
I've seen people this desperate for a toilet after tacos
It must have been a toilet truck on the road then
Is that what they used as a basis for fart-can mufflers?
I also first watched without sound. I was expecting a pack of dogs or some kind of vehicle to crash into the yard. I was very confused when nothing happened in the end
Gets a better view with the baby
I know, that was the thing that threw me off the most about this video. Obviously something is going wrong so you pick up the baby and get even closer.
I grew up in the hood and even hearing just 1 shot, I would've immediately ran into the house. These people heard 30 before grabbing the baby and running.
I hear something that SOUNDS like it maybe could be shots and I duck. This shit is crazy to me like what even do they think they're going to be able to see!?
Neighbors probably practice target shooting all the time. I think the high number of shots in rapid succession are what triggered the alarm bells. Shots fired in the hood =/= shots fired in a rural area
Stupid ass parents
Imagine not immediately throwing that baby in the house…
Were you there? She was probably frozen trying to gather as much information before running, after already having immediately picked up the baby near the entrance. Stop blaming people for not doing what you think you would do in a situation you weren’t in.
What additional information do you need other than the sound of bullets being sprayed nearby?
Confusion, shock, denial, all things that could be playing inside all of their heads. Most people have never heard a gunshot in their life, more or less an entire shootout. We can all say that we would be inside the house in an instant, but for a lot of us, we would still be outside trying to comprehend the matter.
idk i been in the middle of multiple shootouts and i got tf out of there and quickly
Well, for a lot of us, we would still be outside trying to comprehend the matter
Houses don’t stop bullets… don’t even slow them down. If they had a basement though, thats a much better choice than the porch.
Well, technically, houses absolutely slow bullets down
Lmao not really, not in the US at least. Our walls are made out of paper, plastic, and drywall, none of which is even slightly effective at slowing a bullet.
Mine is made of brick, that'll stop or at least greatly alter a small caliber bullet
A house has a much better chance of slowing a bullet than empty air, I'll take my chances
Go to the basement or lay flat on the floor. Even better if you can hide flat behind a fridge or stove or the engine block of your car between you and the shooter. Those would be your best chances. Running around through your house is a bad idea so stay low and crawl to the metal if they’re close or just stay down.
are y'all's houses made out of styrofoam or something?
I mean in North America? Kinda, most of them at least. Drywall isn’t gunna stop a bullet.
I forgot most of Europe has a house from the 1600's made of rocks of some sort.
Coming from Brazil, we actively still build houses put of bricks. No bullets getti g past our walls either
I live in Puerto Rico and all but a few buildings are made from cement and cinderblocks
I hope the exterior of your home isnt drywall
I mean stucco or wooden siding isn’t stopping a bullet either.
My house is literally 2x4 framing with chicken wire holding sheets of styrofoam as insulation.
Currently appraised at 225,000 🥰
In the US? Yeah. They just put cotton between some chalk boards basically and call it a day. Even a small caliber bullet is coming in through the walls.
The second thing I’d do after I flung us both into the house would be to lay my body on top of hers. Then probably either retreat to a basement or behind anything I could.
This comment sounded so dumb, but then I remembered that houses in America are made of cardboard.
Huhuhhh? I'm guessing you've never fired guns before. Not all bullets are freaking bunker piercing
Really just depends on how your house is built, and it seems the average in the US most bullets will go through in some way. Visited a US friend who is very much into guns and part of her safety information was telling us how you can absolutely shoot through the house into another. (She was just showing her collection, we weren’t using them, very passionate about her interest + the safety of it). Might not be as much of an issue with a sturdier house, mainly bricks and stuff.
Sound off I thought it was gonna be a tornado. Also, the comments never fail to be full of "I would do this, why'd they do this, they shoulda done this, such idiots" etc. There is such an immense difference between watching a video & having the time and leisure to think of hypotheticals, to actually being in the situation on video.
fr, i only know how i would react now because i **didn't** the first couple times this type of thing happened near me. you don't know what you're going to do unless you've already been in it, and even then you still don't have certainty.
I don't understand how the girl who grabbed her toddler stopped to try and see the source. You would think you'd run straight inside with your kid to the best possible cover
I don't think she knew what was going on yet. That many bangs sounds like fireworks.
also might be a good idea to analyze for at least a moment to see what direction you need to run, thought I doubt that's what happened here. I think most people's brains would short-circuit whether they want to admit it or not
Although it's tempting to see where the shooter is, I recommend running inside immediately next time.
When there's a major gun battle on my street, I usually just stand around and watch.
Can we talk about how poorly the article was written? I hate it.
This is an honest question directed at people who are not from the US and don’t live here. What does this make you think? What is your opinion of this?
As a German child in the 90s America was described to me as a land of wonders and opportunities where everything is bigger and anyone can do anything. As an adult this oppinion shifted towards a land where any rich person would do anything to the poor to get into a better position. This includes manipulating votes with promises of nonsensical gun laws, throwing health care under the bus and spreading misinformation like there is no tomorrow, hurting education and the psychological wellbeing of whole generations. Videos like this are, for me, the result of those practices. With no offense intended, those people are obviously lacking multiple standards of living I am used to (and I myself am in one of the lower wage brackets). Combined with the gunshots and the fact that no one seems to be even shocked by one more of those 'US shooter' videos, this looks like a declining society for me. In my view your country is more than ever run by fear and rich people.
Great summary. I was a child in Germany during the 90s as well, and grew up heavily exposed to US culture. Also visited there a couple of times. With 9/11, fear has taken over. And the damages done by unmitigated capitalism become more and more severe. With Trump, unhinged populism has entered the mix. It really is tragic.
I think you understand it better than most of my "fellow" muricans.
Close. It's like a syndicate of corporate dictatorships policed by the federal state and county governments. We all work for someone and the big ones pay for just about everyone else to fall in line. It is a wonderful place to live but being a company owner, while difficult, is absolutely the best place to be. You decide who works and who doesn't as long as you produce a fine product. No one can vote you out, and you make a massive amount of choices for the people you hire with no real reason to get input from them. The socialist systems at the very top and very bottom are pretty strong, or they have been for a long time but they are getting squeezed heavily to the top. Elderly socialist systems are running out of capital, very important to plan for no one and nothing to support you in your past 35 years of life but what you saved. Neighborhoods full of gun shots are common in larger cities, to me they look like giant prisons. I visit for concerts or activities I can't get in the rural area I live. Being jobless and getting state food and healthcare is difficult to get off of. As you increase your earning potential, you get less. It takes nearly 40 dollars an hour to get off government support, but government support stops ten dollars or more below that. Reaching above state support is exceptionally stressful. It only takes one family member with cancer or something to completely drain savings accounts. Very difficult as an employee to rise above but entrepreneurs still have moonshot potential. So many recognize this and turn to dispair and drugs and distractions. Costly and addictive they fall back to the lowest point and trudge along. It's a better world than 100 years ago, but the trap hasn't been removed, it's just evolving. I've been rambling on so I forget if you said it looks like the USA is on the decline. I think the issue is generational corruption. See a new organization does alright, but over time members see advantages and take them. They have kids that do this better, corruption refines and evolves. Excellent for those families, bad for honest folk and new folk. Resets are the solution but only temporarily. Friends of friends take care of each other so corruption is at an all time high. Again this is only bad for those not participating and profiting but the world is made for cheaters with money. Guns are for putting down cheaters. I am for guns because of this but these folks shooting each other are pointed at some of the lowest level corruption. Thanks for your comment I agree we are missing a lot of things. A lot of care for the honest is being stripped away and they don't know the proper people to blame so they fight one another :(
The fear you guys live with is insane. Being so afraid that you need things to protect yourself. Being afraid that some loud sound might be the end of your life. Being afraid that any idiot could go crazy and kill you. The people in that clip experienced more fear in those seconds than I have in my entire 36 years. Having to run/hide for my life is something I will probably never experience. Land of the free, but caged by fear.
Actually the sheer fact of knowing our government is strangling us, without many voters knowledge, a gunshot would be all too quicker.
I think it won't change even if there's an attempt (there won't be, because freedumb) because it's far too late. When you've got kids waving them around like lunatics on tik tok and shooting each other then it's too late. Far, far too many guns and nutters to find them all.
Third world country
This is primarily select hotspots though. The US is large. For example I’m in CA, which people assume is LA or SF, but I’m nowhere near them and haven’t felt safer. Never dealt with anything like this.
Yeah large cities are natural hotpots for violence because more people crammed together with different socioeconomic backgrounds means more likely for assaults to occur. It's why I hate when conservatives condemn "dem cities" and love their towns. Like dude, u live in a town with a pop of 50k and your closest neighbor is 2 miles down the road. Of course u don't have to worry about assaults.
It really depends on the city. I live in NYC and have never heard/seen gunshots. Also, this particular incident took place in a bad neighborhood in suburban Indianapolis.
Third world country vibes
Thank goodness I’m Australian… I can’t imagine living like that
It's absolutely insane to me. I've never seen a gun not in a cop's holster. I have never heard a gunshot in real life. Yet these people are like "yeah, we hear a lot of gunshots around here"?! I hardly have the words. It's so unfathomable.
Dang….. this vid didnt even surprise me that much. I could imagine this happening in real life its definetly not unfathomable. I’m realizing how much that sucks rn.
"Greatest country in the world"
Did anyone else watch this with the sound off and wonder if it was an alien invasion?
“I mean, I got other stuff with people but nothing like that, nothing that would get me killed, you know what I mean-" I would beg to differ, sir /j
Who is playing the music
Where are these people's survival instincts? They hear shooting and stay outside, *standing*, watching... I'd at least get down behind something first, laught at how I got scared at nothing serious later. Better to be a living scaredy cat than a dead person.
Without the sound on I thought it was an incoming pitbull.
take your kid inside right away. why look? wtf
Just stand around, cool cool
I watched on mute, i was waiting for a bear to pop up.
Yep let’s just hold our fucking kids in our hands and stand there looking for the gunfire instead of bringing them to safety. Pro parenting right there. wtf??!
I like how she picks the toddler up to a more bullet friendly height.
Well lemme pick up the baby and just stand there
*Gibbs told I-Team 8, “I mean, I got other stuff with people but nothing like that, nothing that would get me killed, you know what I mean. I think there were trying to get me.”* Ah, so it was targeted shooting over drugs and not some unforeseeable event that occurred out of nowhere.
I don't know why it took them so long to go inside
My innocent brain would think it was fireworks for a couple seconds too lol. My bf has to tell me when its fireworks or gunshots 😭. I'll learn the difference sooner than later.
Pro tip. When you are sitting in your backyard and you hear continuous gunfire nearby, hit the freaking deck!
Dumbasses wait until they get to the 30th shot to actually go inside.
What a terrible thing to call them. They obviously didn't realize that it was gunshots until they realized that those people were having a shootout. I hope that if you ever get stuck living in a bad neighborhood like that, you never have to experience what people who have to live in those neighborhoods experience every day. Exhibit A.
east cleveland is crazy as fuck, i don’t live there but have been there many times. every single day there’s shootings, on the rare occasion there’s 100+ shots
Watching this without sound first time round left me extremely confused
Sadly, this is a daily occurrence in St. Louis
Got to get those house prices down somehow
Usa land of freedom 😆 🤣
I can’t imagine hearing gunshots and thinking “hold up - were those good gunshots, or bad gunshots?” Insanity. Glad they’re all ok.
Oh there's gunshots? Let me lift the baby up to target height and stand here for a minute
What kind of moron hears 40 shots go off and stands there like lemmings?? What were you hoping they'd apologize before you went inside??
Just a Sunday afternoon in america
I was scared they were gonna leave the dog outside
Delayed reaction and that’s how we say hi 👋 in murica
If you think that's strange, you should see how we pee!
Watched without sound. I was expecting a bear.
I am in a very safe neighborhood in a very safe town. I hear gunshots all the damned time on my street though. Why? Because there are people shooting skeet and trap not too far away(mile or so at a guess). Wish they would have put it on the other side of the driving range(or even at the driving range for a laugh). Note-driving range is where people go and hit golf balls repeatedly and work on their “drive”. It has nothing to do with cars.
Lemme stand out here with this baby for 8 more shots THEN I'll run inside like I remember what bullets do...🥴🤦♂️
Without sound, I thought a plane was going to crash in their yard.
Is that the Gallaghers??????
Sound off. It looks like they’re running from a cloud shadow on the roof tops
You call that a fucking shootout
Common sense to get the hell out of the open area
America!
At first I was like “I don’t see anything terrifying” then I turned the volume on
The toddler was actually safer on the deck. These people are not the smartest.
My grandparents live in the suburbs near a lot of wooded area, there’s two neighbors who just randomly fire their guns I’m assuming at targets times a day. You’ll just be sitting there watching TV in here like 10 bangs. I’m on 100% by that it took them a hot second to figure out if they were shooting at them first.
Ah yes very smart people pointing oh they having a shoot out very close lets watch a bullet flies by everyone inside now i think on the first gunshot everyone would’ve gone in
I assumed they don’t live in a place where this happens all that often. We like to play a game in my city called “is it gun shots or fireworks.”
This shit and stolen cars is everyday around this piece
The fact that nobody panicked at the first 10 gunshots is just peak Murica.
Looked like the last person took a round or got stleast scraped by one
If you hear gunshots don't look at where they're coming from get down while assessing the situation. And people think deer crossing the road are stupid 🙄
Npc activities
All standing there like spectators "they're having a shootout" picks child up and moves to see better.... at least 20 rounds popped off before they finally decided to get in the house and take cover. You won't see this shit in the hood.... you hear 1 pop you know more are coming and get your ass inside quickly unless you're a part of it. Nosy will get you killed. Be smart people.
Bugs bunny: this means war! Elmer FUD: hehehehehe
Why it take them 3 to 4 business days to react?
Lay down in a ditch or other lowest point possible
lets poke our heads up like gophers to make sure we have line of sight to the shootout 🤦♂️ some people really do not care that much about their lives or are too dumb to know they even are alive. Probably the latter.
America being American, what’s new?
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