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I know a police officer who said the department got rid of their detector after it flooded them in noise, either from completely false reports, bad isolation of places like shooting ranges, or just pointless stuff like some redneck plinking cans in his trailer park

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This doesn't surprise me. I would say I hear things that sound like gunshots (maybe 50% certain) multiple times per day. Of the times when I'm 100% sure they're gunshots, it's very very rare that a crime ends up being reported, at least going by the local police incident maps.

local thieves in the big Canadian city where I live often set off fireworks, which, if timed well, sound quite similar to gun shots, as a way of causing distractions.

set off a few "gun battles" on the other side of a suburb and then boost the cars or break into the stores.

there was speculation there actual shootings happening, but the stats don't back that up -- lots of calls and disturbances, but few actual attacks.

> or just pointless stuff like some redneck plinking cans in his trailer park

This is rather offensive to a large subset of people, btw.

Is it? All the rednecks I know love plinking cans in the trailer park or state land behind where they live. Join them plinking for an afternoon, you'll realize they aren't that uptight as long as you're respectful

anyone offended by that isn't worth listening to

>> or just pointless stuff like some redneck plinking cans in his trailer park

> This is rather offensive to a large subset of people, btw.

Is that offensive to rednecks or to people plinking cans?

Maybe people living in trailer parks?

Not a redneck, but I have lived in a trailer park and shot a can or two in my day.

> large subset of people

[citation needed]

we prefer the term "Mullet-American"

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