 
Snapdragon
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Username: Snapdragon
Post Number: 1
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:12 pm: |    |
I live on Marshall Street in Ferndale, and around 9:30 and 11:30 last night (Wednesday) I heard two huge explosions. Friends who live in Royal Oak heard them too. Did anyone else hear them or know anything about what they were? Definitely louder than fireworks or a gunshot. |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 205
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:14 pm: | |
Thunder? |
Cambrian
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Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 1210
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:17 pm: | |
I heard them in Hazel Park. Sounded like Municipal Fireworks. |
Matt_the_deuce
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Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 750
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:24 pm: | |
I heard one of them from Royal Oak. Sounded like a big boom - low and rumbling.
If it wasn't fireworks, we probably would have heard about it though. |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1548
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:27 pm: | |
Yeah, that was the fireworks coming from my bedroom... sorry. |
Cambrian
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Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 1211
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:30 pm: | |
Get some new batteries recently? |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1549
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 2:32 pm: | |
Pervert. |
Lizaanne
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Username: Lizaanne
Post Number: 80
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:01 pm: | |
What other type of response did you expect from your post? Fireworks from your bedroom? Sheesh - don't post it if you don't want it commented on.
~Liza |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 189
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:22 pm: | |
They must have had those pork and beans for dinner again. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 693
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:28 pm: | |
Snapdragon, welcome to DY. We live on W Troy and Allen and heard it as well. We got out of the house to have a look, but saw nothing. I dont think fireworks was the reason, but I dont know what else it could be. |
Terryh
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Username: Terryh
Post Number: 369
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:49 pm: | |
I live on Marshall and heard the explosions. We are neighbors snapdragon. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 694
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 9:09 pm: | |
I wish I was better at posting things like maps, because we need to triangulate these explosions. Are they because of Paulmcalls’ ass? Susanarosas' new toy? Or, is it Bush (and Co)? Hmmm, the mystery deepens... |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 1064
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 10:08 pm: | |
I suppose we should get Steve Wilson on it. I'm sure the mayor had something to do with this. New batteries, lol. |
Zimm
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Username: Zimm
Post Number: 16
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 10:29 pm: | |
i live at Hilton and Browning in Ferndale and have heard them. they don't sound like fireworks-more like a legit explosive device. the shockwave actually rattled the windows in my bedroom last night. |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1551
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 11:43 pm: | |
Welcome to sarcasm, Liz. |
Zimm
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Username: Zimm
Post Number: 17
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:15 am: | |
there was another one tonight (Thursday) at 11:50. not nearly as loud. i hope the f****r blows his hands off. |
Thecarl
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Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 1030
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:20 am: | |
eleven mile and woodward: nothing to report, tonight or last night.
i feel cheated. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 9438
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:24 am: | |
Obviously gunshots. |
Thecarl
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Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 1031
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:25 am: | |
update: i'm hearing something.
it sounds like fireworks.
i'm surprised some sleepy neighbors haven't called the cops. |
Rjlj
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Username: Rjlj
Post Number: 349
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:32 am: | |
Sorry Jt1, it was one loud blast and not gun shots. Did you even hear it?
Seems kind of typical for being so close to the 4th. You hear this stuff a lot in the northern suburbs. |
Hardliner
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Username: Hardliner
Post Number: 53
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 1:02 am: | |
I confess, I ate some White Castles.
;-P |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 9440
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 1:04 am: | |
Sarcasm rjlj. Whenever anyone mentions noise in Detroit people jump on th e'gunshots' argument. |
Genesyxx
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Username: Genesyxx
Post Number: 761
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 8:28 am: | |
Well I dunno about you guys, but where I live (8MI and Woodward), they're repaving the streets cause the trucks were using it for traffic for the construction. Could be an explanation for up there too. |
Rjk
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Username: Rjk
Post Number: 734
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 8:56 am: | |
Occasionally over the past few years I've heard loud explosions in my neighborhood that shook my house. I haven't heard any this year but last summer an explosion just about knocked me off my feet as I walked by my kitchen window. I thought some kids were setting these explosives off on the side of my house but it turned out they were two streets over.
My big concern is for some of the older people in my neighborhood. They shock the hell out of me, they can't be good for an elderly person who might have a heart problem. |
Mercman
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Username: Mercman
Post Number: 25
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 9:06 am: | |
I live at 11 and Campbell, I heard the earlier one Wed. night. We figured fireworks...then saw some high in the air looking East. A neighbor said Madison Heights fireworks...? |
Crew
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Username: Crew
Post Number: 1297
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 9:10 am: | |
I must be deaf. I live at Lincoln and Campbell and I heard nothing. |
Snapdragon
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Username: Snapdragon
Post Number: 2
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 11:36 am: | |
Hazel Park fireworks aren't until the 3rd and Mad Heights aren't until the 1st. So it wasn't the city fireworks display for either of those. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 702
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 11:45 am: | |
If this helps..
I live by 9 and Pinecrest, didn't hear anything.
I have a friend who lives just west of Woodward and North of 9. He heard 2, one around 10:00pm and another around 11:00pm.
I have a friend who lives on Cambourne, just east of Woodward. He heard both as well.
I have a friend who lives in Royal Oak, near 11 and Main, and HE and his neighbors heard it.
They both said it sounded like an explosion, and none of them believed it was Fireworks. |