guns last night?

medellinlodging (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 20, 2008, 04:58:

Loggi says on Nov 20, 2008, 05:04:

Fireworks. Get used to it with Christmas approaching

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spigrimace says on Nov 20, 2008, 05:22:

hope a globo doesnt burn your house down

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dwmte7 says on Nov 20, 2008, 05:36:

larry.....welcome to medallo! when i first moved there in the '80's, that's all i heard. 24/7. and the bombings. there would be shoot outs at the estaderos in las palmas, while folks were trying to eat lunch. it was so common, you'ld just wait til the noise was over and then continue your conversation and lunch. folks would drive by on the las palmas road to el retiro would be shooting it out as they drove along. wild.

so if it's a bit rough around the edges---right, polboro---just know that it's a million percent better than it was just 12-15 years ago....and twice as good as it was a year or so ago.

keep the faith, the bad guys have pretty much taken their lucha to the selva. and the capos live in miami with their enemys from gobernation. in miami, they party together.

dwmte

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august says on Nov 20, 2008, 08:04:

yeah i say those were fireworks, particularly likely in the x-mas season, but always common in your city

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durito2 says on Nov 20, 2008, 08:06:

surely you've heard fireworks in medellin before? i hear them every damn day

if not, get ready on december 1st at about 12am

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paisa29 says on Nov 20, 2008, 08:15:

Larry... eso se llama polvora

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papiChulo says on Nov 20, 2008, 08:27:

yeehaa.... christmas in medallo just 12 more sleeps!!!

avoid the unhappy and the unlucky

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jay007 says on Nov 20, 2008, 12:14:

if your ear is "trained" you can tell the diffrence between the sound of fireworks and gunshots...they have a totally diffrent sound

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jonas says on Nov 20, 2008, 12:24:

must have been robi

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miamimike says on Nov 20, 2008, 14:32:

Not only a different sound but a different Cadence as well! We hear 'em a lot here in Miami!

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Catfish35 says on Nov 20, 2008, 15:10:

Indeed you can hear the difference..The past week the fireworks have been increasing every night.

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dwmte7 says on Nov 20, 2008, 15:33:

fireworks are fireworks...gunfire is gunfire....ever been in a firefight?

dwmte

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dwmte7 says on Nov 20, 2008, 15:34:

actually...don't want to relive or go there, but there's no mistaking the difference.

dwmte

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dwmte7 says on Nov 20, 2008, 15:35:

ya don't hear "incoming!" when someone's fuckin around with M-80's

dwmte

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Robert Jorge says on Nov 20, 2008, 21:46:

I didn't want to be the first to say it - so I bit my tongue. But dwmte7, Catfish, and others are correct. There is a total difference in sound between a gun-shot and a firecracker. A gunshot has a much crisper, higher compression than a firecracker. It "hits" harder. I can hear guns being fired in the distance, and can tell you approximately what caliber of rifle, if it was a pistol rather, or a shotgun. No combat experience personally (thank God), but 37 years of shooting and hunting under the belt.

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jay007 says on Nov 21, 2008, 01:32:

ignorance is bliss

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sandman0011 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 21, 2008, 04:51:

dwmte7 says on Nov 21, 2008, 05:21:

thanks, sandman.....but i think i'll duck.....old habits.

dwmte

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mranderson says on Nov 21, 2008, 06:18:

It´s hard to tell for people who have never shot a gun and only know the sounds on tv which are different depending on what movie your watching.

About a week ago someone was setting off firecrackers all night long in the same spot. From midnight till 7 am. It was annoying as hell and I couldn´t sleep well because it was pretty loud. No music, no sound of a party...just fireworks. I love setting off fireworks but I honestly don´t get how someone can set off small firecrackers hour after hour. I would be bored after an hour.

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durito2 says on Nov 21, 2008, 13:54:

one of my neighbors does this every saturday night at about 1am for a couple hours. it's just wonderful.

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dwmte7 says on Nov 21, 2008, 15:54:

right durito...just wonderful. toss him an m-80.

dwmte

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