Loud bang! Did my depressed alcoholic neighbour just shoot himself?

harmoniums

So last night, the kids are in bed, my wife and myself are watching "game of thrones".
Yer wan is giving birth to that weird smoke assassin monster and "Bang!!!!" I hear a gunshot come from my garage.

Da fuQ!

Wife runs to check on kids, I run to garage and find nothing, I'm paranoid because I reload ammunition (thats where you take the spent shells, put on a new primer, load in new powder and cap it with a new bullet)
None of my powder or primers are disturbed, there is no smell of gunpowder or anything.

After I tactically roll from door to door securing all the locks, me and Mrs re-group.

She thinks the sound came from the other side of the house where our depressed, recently divorced alcoholic neighbor lives.
I know he has a large revolver, and start thinking that he may have just shot it.

I head over to the door to go out and check on him, but stop myself thinking:

1/ it wasn't him
2/ it was him, he was drunk and messing, why would I go over to a drunk armed mans house?
3/ it was him sober, but he had an accident cleaning it or whatever, no biggie, I hear no moans or cry's for help.
4/ he's shot and shot bad enough to be silent, so hes either dead or soon to be.

So I decide to sit tight, I call the non-emergency police line, they say they have other reports of a gunshot in the area coming in.

I don't mention my neighbour, figuring I have no evidence of anything, and I'd not want to make any trouble for him if its something innocent.

Next morning, I'm up at 6am with the kids, I notice I don't hear his racist* diesel truck start up as i usually do .(I say its racist* because the engine sounds like its saying "n_ggah, n_ggah, n_ggah while it idles)
He's a welder and is up every morning for work at 6am.

By 10:30am, I'm off to work, his truck still hasn't moved.

8pm that night I come home and knock on his door, no answer, one light on in the front room, can see nothing through the windows.

I call over to my other neighbour to ask about him, see if he has a spare key, telephone # etc.

He tells me that he's no longer living there because of some "trouble", seemingly he *just* moved out.

He was being kind of nebulous and respecting the guys privacy I suppose, so details were non-existant.

I ask why his truck is still there and he tells me that "he's not going to be driving for a while, his mother owns the house, I guess its just long term parked there."

Thats all I can get out of him.

So for the next hour or so I'm pondering whether to jimmy his door open , call the police to do a "welfare check" or what ever.....

Then my wife asks me if I could look at the wheel on the kids double strollers, she says it's flat.
It's a big over-engineered "jogging" stroller (unsure how to pronounce that, the J may be soft, seemingly its where you run, but for no reason)
Anyway, its got pneumatic tires.
I look at the offending wheel and see that its blown out.

Two days earlier I had felt they were a bit soft, and inflated them to a reasonable 80 PSI.

Seemingly, this was way too much pressure and one of them let go in a spectacular way!

So that explains the mysterious bang during the game of thrones.

On to my next mystery, the curious case of the morning fart that sounded like a queef!

Seachmall

That's too long to read, and you somehow got to talking about tyres. Can you summarise?

MarkR

So.... No?

SEPT 23 1989

I would be a depressed alcoholic if i lived next door to you

mikemac1

creative writing forum OP


tl;dr tyre exploded, OP trespassed on their property, wanted to damage their door and break in, accused the neighbor of being an alcoholic, a racist and a loner

FatherLen

i cant believe i ate the whole thing

CardBordWindow

Jaysus that's one dull attempt of a joke.

some random drunk

Don't worry I'm grand!

Battered Mars Bar

It's a good job I was doing a Sir Harrington reading that or I'd be rightly pissed with a minute wasted.

Scioch

That was a whole lot of notting. Thanks for wasting my time with your over inflated story.

ejmaztec

One of my neigbours shat himself after a loud bang.

Ush1

Was just thunder, I heard it to.

mattjack

You could've made it a bit more interesting, maybe by shooting back at your neighbour ..

EdenHazard

You lost me at 'So last night,...'

Southern Dandy

A reasonable 80psi??? A car tire does not even take that never mind a stroller.

I think its time for and you the missus to stop watchin csi and all that bollox!


haha never read the end, after i seen 80psi i had to comment I feel jipped.

3rdDegree

What an anti climax. What you need to do to rescue the thread is find out what the full story with your neighbour is. Did he try to kill his ex-wife? Maybe he tried to kill her new fella? Get snooping.

mikemac1

Sorry OP but here in AH we demand and expect top quality threads
This ain't no mustard forum or Ladies Lounge where anything goes


Must be better with your next attempt

Fran1985

i've to go for a drink after that.

You say you own a gun? i presume you've used it before and could tell the difference between that and a wheel bursting?

Princess Peach

harmoniums wrote: »

So last night, the kids are in bed, my wife and myself are watching "game of thrones".

Next morning, I'm up at 6am with the kids, I notice

8pm that night I come home and knock on his door, no answer, one light on in the front room, can see nothing through the windows.

Your timeline of the tale needs work.

frag420

So your neighbour topped himself with a tire from your kids toy??

Could you not have given him your gun, your poor kids have np toy now!!

Seachmall

Princess Peach wrote: »

Your timeline of the tale needs work.

How I picture you right now.

DublinWriter

There's an Unthank button, surely...

harmoniums

Fran1985 wrote: »

i've to go for a drink after that.

You say you own a gun? i presume you've used it before and could tell the difference between that and a wheel bursting?

a large caliber handgun typically pushes the bullet out at sub-sonic speeds, so its more of a "bang" that a rifle's super sonic "crack".
And a tyre letting go will sound very close to it

BornToKill

Started okay with a smoke monster but I thought the ending was very flat.

harmoniums

Princess Peach wrote: »

Your timeline of the tale needs work.

8pm following day, after I came home from work, I knocked in .

Seachmall

harmoniums wrote: »

8pm following day, after I came home from work, I knocked in .

So 8pm tonight?

godtabh

you confused a small tyre pop with a gun shot? You'd react well under pressure!

harmoniums

Seachmall wrote: »

So 8pm tonight?

I should have said this sound occurred the night before last, I waited till the next day (yesterday) to check in

mikemac1

Will your next story have more about this smoke assassin monster?

al28283

Why did you even post this?

mikom

harmoniums wrote: »

So last night, the kids are in bed, my wife and myself are watching "game of thrones".
Yer wan is giving birth to that weird smoke assassin monster and "Bang!!!!" I hear a gunshot come from my garage.

Da fuQ!

Wife runs to check on kids, I run to garage and find nothing, I'm paranoid because I reload ammunition (thats where you take the spent shells, put on a new primer, load in new powder and cap it with a new bullet)
None of my powder or primers are disturbed, there is no smell of gunpowder or anything.

After I tactically roll from door to door securing all the locks, me and Mrs re-group.

She thinks the sound came from the other side of the house where our depressed, recently divorced alcoholic neighbor lives.
I know he has a large revolver, and start thinking that he may have just shot it.

I head over to the door to go out and check on him, but stop myself thinking:

1/ it wasn't him
2/ it was him, he was drunk and messing, why would I go over to a drunk armed mans house?
3/ it was him sober, but he had an accident cleaning it or whatever, no biggie, I hear no moans or cry's for help.
4/ he's shot and shot bad enough to be silent, so hes either dead or soon to be.

So I decide to sit tight, I call the non-emergency police line, they say they have other reports of a gunshot in the area coming in.

I don't mention my neighbour, figuring I have no evidence of anything, and I'd not want to make any trouble for him if its something innocent.

Next morning, I'm up at 6am with the kids, I notice I don't hear his racist* diesel truck start up as i usually do .(I say its racist* because the engine sounds like its saying "n_ggah, n_ggah, n_ggah while it idles)
He's a welder and is up every morning for work at 6am.

By 10:30am, I'm off to work, his truck still hasn't moved.

8pm that night I come home and knock on his door, no answer, one light on in the front room, can see nothing through the windows.

I call over to my other neighbour to ask about him, see if he has a spare key, telephone # etc.

He tells me that he's no longer living there because of some "trouble", seemingly he *just* moved out.

He was being kind of nebulous and respecting the guys privacy I suppose, so details were non-existant.

I ask why his truck is still there and he tells me that "he's not going to be driving for a while, his mother owns the house, I guess its just long term parked there."

Thats all I can get out of him.

So for the next hour or so I'm pondering whether to jimmy his door open , call the police to do a "welfare check" or what ever.....

Then my wife asks me if I could look at the wheel on the kids double strollers, she says it's flat.
It's a big over-engineered "jogging" stroller (unsure how to pronounce that, the J may be soft, seemingly its where you run, but for no reason)
Anyway, its got pneumatic tires.
I look at the offending wheel and see that its blown out.

Two days earlier I had felt they were a bit soft, and inflated them to a reasonable 80 PSI.

Seemingly, this was way too much pressure and one of them let go in a spectacular way!

So that explains the mysterious bang during the game of thrones.

On to my next mystery, the curious case of the morning fart that sounded like a queef!

My cats breath smells like cat food.

staker

mikemac1 wrote: »

Sorry OP but here in AH we demand and expect top quality threads
This ain't no mustard forum or Ladies Lounge where anything goes


Must be better with your next attempt

I always thought that place was a bit liberal alright,but orgies?

Mickey H

al28283 wrote: »

Why did you even post this?

I liked it. It was a cliffhanger with a reasonable, innocent explanation.

sealgaire

I thought reloading was illegal???????????????

Cokeistan

Im never going to get those 4 minutes back am i

BornToKill

Maybe he hanged himself?

harmoniums

sealgaire wrote: »

I thought reloading was illegal???????????????

I live in the states.
btw there is a pilot scheme going on in Ireland at the midland shooting range in tullamore to allow a few competitive shooters to reload

Mickey H

sealgaire wrote: »

I thought reloading was illegal???????????????

What? What do you do when you're empty? Buy a new gun?

bullpost

Dodge city by any chance?

harmoniums wrote: »

I live in the states.

Shryke

A well constructed little story! Kudos, but maybe keep the fart one to yourself.

jokettle

Cokeistan wrote: »

Im never going to get those 4 minutes back am i

It took you 4 minutes to read that post?

Nothingbetter2d

its probably some kids with fireworks

Nothingbetter2d

jokettle wrote: »

It took you 4 minutes to read that post?

sssh he might have learning difficulties :rolleyes:

jester77

Well, that was the most anti-climatical end to a story since the Matrix!

harmoniums

BornToKill wrote: »

Started okay with a smoke monster but I thought the ending was very flat.

Just like the TV show, LOST

BornToKill

harmoniums wrote: »

Just like the TV show, LOST

I just knew it sounded vaguely familiar!

My name is URL

harmoniums wrote: »

the mysterious bang during the game of thrones.

There's loads of mysterious banging in Game of Thrones

I can't believe I actually just read all that >.<

Rocky_Dennis

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't believe I actually just read all that >.<

I blame the people that thanked the OP, because the first thing I did was see if it had any thanks and then I read it because it had a few thanks

Born to Die

It's ok I am fine. Just killing a rat. I see a lot of them.

longhalloween

The second neighbour in that story killed the depressed one. Probably for playing Radiohead too loud at night.