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Eastside Booms
updated: Mar 08, 2013, 8:48 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

Gun shots heard last night around 2am on the Eastside of Santa Barbara near Voluntario and Soledad-Does anyone know about this?

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COMMENT 382627	2013-03-08 09:08 AM
Guy has an old truck over there that he fires up at odd hours and the thing backfires to no end, confirmed.
COMMENT 382633P	2013-03-08 09:17 AM
Did you call the police? Hope so, confirmed.
COMMENT 382634	2013-03-08 09:18 AM
Not every loud noise is guns. All these reports of shots fired, but no news about it. Makes me wonder if people actually know what gun shots sound like. And it's not like in the movies
COMMENT 382638	2013-03-08 09:25 AM
I actually live near Bregante Lane where a man was shot literally outside my back door in November of last year...so yes, I do know what gun shots sound like. I did call the police.
COMMENT 382639	2013-03-08 09:25 AM
Just another day in the eastside paradise.
COMMENT 382641P	2013-03-08 09:29 AM
Sure glad we're putting our resources into the DUI checkpoints every weekend! That ought to show the gangs we mean business....oh wait, never mind.
COMMENT 382642	2013-03-08 09:30 AM
just because you've heard one gun shot doesn't mean you can immediately decipher between a gun shot and backfire... different calibers make different sounds.. pew pew, bang bang, pow pow, braaat braaat
LIZBETH	2013-03-08 09:37 AM
besides cars backfiring, what other things make similar noises? Fireworks? What else?
COMMENT 382651	2013-03-08 10:01 AM
roger in the morning. confirmed, just saying, brah.
COMMENT 382657	2013-03-08 10:19 AM
Most of you guys are just making stuff up... now, that's CONFIRMED.
ROGER DODGER	2013-03-08 10:34 AM
I hear shots on the East Side the West Side all sides sometimes the police are in the areas and they say they heard gun shots too..So I know other people hear gunshots around here. I wasn't up at 2am to hear these.
COMMENT 382681	2013-03-08 11:03 AM
657 yes we do sometimes its all in fun though boys will be boys
QUAD-LIX	2013-03-08 11:19 AM
I live in an area near Voluntario and Soledad (they are parallel) and heard something at about that time last night but it didn't sound like a gunshot to me. It sounded like something big and metallic falling over or off of whatever it was on. I imagine confirmed, that some fat raccoon nudged something that slipped on a wet surface and fell.
COMMENT 382713	2013-03-08 12:28 PM
Maybe someone was skeet shooting? Or maybe just taking care of the overwhelming pigeon problem on that end of town under the cover of darkness and rain?
COMMENT 382716	2013-03-08 12:46 PM
I've never heard so many reports of cars backfiring as we've had here in recent months. LOL. Implausible. Gun fire much more likely.
COMMENT 382719	2013-03-08 12:56 PM
It's pretty rare to even find a car that backfires anymore. Newer cars have fuel injectors and computer controlled fuel systems that prevent the car from backfiring. Probably gunfire, not sure why everyone's searching for some other explanation -- it's the most likely cause.
COMMENT 382724	2013-03-08 01:19 PM
I thought I was hearing things last night, but there were 3 distinct shot-like sounds at that time (I was awake feeding an infant, so definitely wasn't dreaming up the sounds). My first thought was gun shots, but I tried to reassure myself that they "must be something else". They were not handgun sounds. Scared me.
COMMENT 382743	2013-03-08 02:40 PM
Movin' on up, to the East Side. To the deluxe apartment in the ghetto. Lucky you haven't been beat to death walking home from work. Count your blessings.
COMMENT 382786	2013-03-08 04:23 PM
I spoke to a friend who said the gunshots came from Milpas street, which is pretty close to where I live. Bottom line is this; I've lived in that neighborhood for over 25 years and it's always been a fairly safe place to live but it's getting worse and worse with all the gang activity that takes place, I've got a teenage son who I worry about while he's out skateboarding.....maybe time to relocate because I don't see them going anywhere....
ROGER DODGER	2013-03-08 04:37 PM
"Shoot Low they might be Crawling" - Monte Hale..
COMMENT 382803	2013-03-08 04:57 PM
The "Ostrich Factor" at work - "Oh, it's only a little car backfire. Couldn't possibly be gunfire in our little paradise." Wake up, kids - we're not in Kansas anymore!
COMMENT 382845	2013-03-08 07:47 PM
That can go both ways, this ain't la either. It's not as bad as some people hype it up to be
COMMENT 382846	2013-03-08 08:22 PM
live by more mesa i hear what sounds like shots some may be but others are like firecrakers.. and yes sheriffs usually in area so they check it out we also have coyotes that run in neighborhoods and others shoot bb guns or air guns(sound like shots but just air).. my daughter used to live on eastside just off milpas by taco bell we'd hear what sounded like shots all the time. got to where we slept on floor on mattress.. gang members lived upstairs and next door.. so rivals at times would do drive byes police called and sometimes showed up right away and other times maybe 45 minutes later.. call 911 if you hear shot or even what you think sound like shots, better safe then wake up and step out your door to a person shot in front of your house..

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