# Gunfire is not a sub for an alarm clock **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292 "2018-01-23T14:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/1 "2018-01-23T14:03:35Z")
Was awoken this morning by about 8 rounds of shotgun fire followed by 3 or 4 rounds of 9 mm fire and a whole bunch of yelling. Popped me out of bed and dressed, armed and holding my phone as I called 911. Turns out the cops were serving a no knock warrant to someone who didn’t want to behave … right next door in a small town. No idea what was actually going on, but thinking maybe drugs? Not that this little town of 5000 or so people has a huge drug problem, but shit happens. Glad I don’t have a doctors visit set up, I think my blood pressure is through the roof right now. Half an hour later and I still have the adrenaline shakes. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/2 "2018-01-23T14:27:11Z")
Sorry you were awakened so abruptly. Call the local LEOs and request that they use the gentle awake option next time. A few rounds or 22LR, then some 38 special, a few .380, a few 9mm, and finish with the 12 gauge. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/3 "2018-01-23T15:33:16Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Sorry you were awakened so abruptly. Call the local LEOs and request that they use the gentle awake option next time. A few rounds or 22LR, then some 38 special, a few .380, a few 9mm, and finish with the 12 gauge. Nope. Nerve gas. Silent. Except for the agonizing screams of the victim but with good nerve gas that is only a few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/4 "2018-01-23T15:56:15Z")
Well yeah, but the OP might only think he’s dreaming and not wake up. GaryM ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/5 "2018-01-23T16:30:01Z")
When I moved to The City of Los Angeles from northern L.A. County, gunfire frequently woke me up. It got to the point where I said to myself, ‘The next time someone shoots in the alley, I’m going to yell at them: DO YOU _MIND?_ PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO _SLEEP!_’. And then the Crips and the Bloods came to their truce, and there was no more gunfire. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/6 "2018-01-23T17:58:40Z")
What about the helicopters though? Did those stop? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/7 "2018-01-23T18:06:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > When I moved to The City of Los Angeles from northern L.A. County, gunfire frequently woke me up. It got to the point where I said to myself, ‘The next time someone shoots in the alley, I’m going to yell at them: DO YOU _MIND?_ PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO _SLEEP!_’. And then the Crips and the Bloods came to their truce, and there was no more gunfire. Yeah, and they were such bad shots - no aim. So it was a lot of gunfire with very limited damage. I always wanted to tell them, “Could you work on your aim? Maybe a little target practice?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/8 "2018-01-23T18:49:29Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > What about the helicopters though? Did those stop? Nope, those never did. Of course everyone blamed civilian pilots, when it was actually the LAPD making all of the noise. I lived under the traffic pattern for Santa Monica Airport. I _liked_ living under the traffic pattern for Santa Monica Airport. I like ‘airplane noise’. But not at two o’clock in the morning for a couple of hours. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/9 "2018-01-23T19:18:53Z")
You got up, didn’t fall back & oversleep, & were not late because you hit the Snooze bar too many times. Kwityerbitchin. I was awakened one mid-December night to, “Police! Open the front door.” Seems my nieghbor’s adult son’s girlfriend’s probation officer (how’s that for a string of possessives?) just wanted to give her her Christmas gift. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/10 "2018-01-24T23:53:25Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Well yeah, but the OP might only think he’s dreaming and not wake up. > > GaryM She 😛 > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Nope, those never did. Of course everyone blamed civilian pilots, when it was actually the LAPD making all of the noise. > > I lived under the traffic pattern for Santa Monica Airport. I _liked_ living under the traffic pattern for Santa Monica Airport. I like ‘airplane noise’. But not at two o’clock in the morning for a couple of hours. Lived under the flightline for NAS Norfolk and NAS Oceana, I also like planes. I can pretty much ID any Naval plane and helicopter by sound now. > [@Spiderman](#): > > You got up, didn’t fall back & oversleep, & were not late because you hit the Snooze bar too many times. Kwityerbitchin. > I was awakened one mid-December night to, “Police! Open the front door.” Seems my nieghbor’s adult son’s girlfriend’s probation officer (how’s that for a string of possessives?) just wanted to give her her Christmas gift. :rolleyes: I don’t work so I don’t really have any schedule other than 0500 pills and insulin shot and breakfast. Not uncommon for me to go back to sleep for a few hours. [though when I was working on balancing some drugs I needed, one was also used as a light sedative so I would take it, be ok for an hour then fall asleep for a couple hours, wake up for the second dose, be ok for an hour then fall asleep. I sort of did a sine wave around the clock til my body decided it was ok for me to actually wake up for most of the day] Living on 13th Bay in Ocean View [the military/white slum area of Norfolk VA] was sort of like that. The population was enlisted military, strippers, bikers, hookers, pimps and poor white trash like me … there was always an undercurrent of light arms fire, fist fights, loud arguments and people driving by slowly looking for hookers. Made me glad I lived in the back duplex of a cement block building with few windows. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gunfire-is-not-a-sub-for-an-alarm-clock/807292/11 "2018-01-25T15:05:03Z")
Oddly enough, despite living pretty far from most people, I’ve been awoken to gunfire, too. But, in our case, it’s someone shooting a critter or showing off their guns or, worst yet, someone partying and shooting a gun in the air. Usually this is during decent hours, but not always.