The Kids Told Me

Today the kids told me there was a shooting back here in the parkinglot. I looked up at the girl's father who was standing right there and he said it's true. Friday night at around 10 PM he heard boom, boom, boom, and thought it was fireworks at first but it had no sulfur smell. It was gunfire. The bad guys, trapped back here, ran away on foot abandoning their cars. Lots of police showed up. The detectives tore off the siding of one of the tenements to get at the bullets. The police towed cars and my neighbor proudly gave a statement. I have a renewed appreciation for my longtime annoying but non-shooting neighbors. Luckily nobody got hurt but we all got scared.