Tonight’s performance of To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway ended abruptly after a patron heard a sound on the street...

My sister's piece of shit Subaru backfires every time it changes gear. It's got a rattle can on the exhaust and everything on it is broken. Fuck I hate that thing.

>the only time somebody gave a fuck about gunshots in new york

>be me
>walking around downtown houston on a date
>sitting at public park sort of secluded but near streets and a train station and lots of other downtown stuff
>hear loud bang sound and immediately look in the direction of sound
>don't see anything, just an alley that curves out of view
>date asks "was that a gun shot?"
>"i'm not sure"
>was the middle of the day around 3pm and many other people were out and saw no one running or anything

There were construction sites of a few high rise apartments maybe 700 feet away or so in the direction of the alley. So I assume the noise came from those, but how is someone supposed to know a loud boom/bang sound is or isn't a gunshot? especially if the source is out of eyeshot?

Who cares? It wasn't you, it wasn't anyone you know. I grew up in a white trash shithole back when meth was a huge thing, and I heard what were almost certainly gunshots about once a week. I'm not trying to be edgy, but you get used to it. It makes you callous. Sorry if I'm talking shit, I'm trying to finish off a bottle of cheap whiskey.

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I have a John Deere Gator that backfires whenever it gets too hot.

But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Cue

so just ride around droping firecrackers now?

If it's a singular bang the chances of it being a firearm are pretty low. In a self-defence scenario (or a mass shooting/driveby shooting) you're never gonna fire just once.

Queue.

I have a 2003 Kawasaki Nomad 1500, it'll backfire anytime you engine brake or dump the throttle, its actually pretty fun to do

Here in Minnesota the police sirens are a recording of a guy yelling "NIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGER"
Its fumy as fuck

>similar to what EMS has in France

They want our sirens to sound like two gay guys fucking?

I have an SV with an aftermarket pipe, it burbles and pops when engine braking but if you add the tiniest bit of throttle it'll occasionally go off like a bomb.

>he thinks there aren't a metric fuckload of vehicles in the boroughs and across the turnpike that aren't total shitboxes that backfire when they shift, start, and/or stop
confirmed for upper class zoomer trash

CLACK CLACK

One day I'm going to eat a shitload of Mexican food and fart so loud people think it's an active shooter.

I hear backfires a lot, not frequently, but they happen. Usually on riced out shitboxes or squid faggots

Hearty kek

If theres anything that grinds my gears more is that everyone here is calling an afterfire a backfire, and afterfire on motorcycles would be common especially if there is an aftermerket exhaust because it fucks up the f/a ratio.

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It still happens, especially with cars that have worn engine parts.
Some tiny bit of gas gets into the exhaust and as its being expelled out of the exhaust pipe the hest just makes the gas explode, causing a backfire.

I do not trust people to keep their cars well maintained so its not surprising that someone's vehicle backfires.

the media getting nomenclature wrong? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

I have an RX7, it dumps fuel into the exhaust pretty much any time it isn’t on throttle.

Also any car that has a two step or ALS fitted will sound like a machine gun.

Further proof silencers being non taxed is a bad idea

If I can get it just right I can get my Yamaha ATV to double or even triple backfire.
After midnight. In a quiet neighbourhood. Full of old people.
I think they hate me.

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Uwu

Underrated

If you got shot after it

The American left seems to think that the EU is some socialist utopia that cares for its citizens. It’s not. It’s a giant neo-liberal bureaucracy that is primarily concerned with Eurozone GDP, secondarily concerned with the salaries of its bankrolled politicians.

Not backfires, those are afterfires

Thatswhatshesaid

So it's just like America but only more accepting of diversity after they got rid of their nazi problem?

All the fucking time.

WOOP WOOP

DAT'S DA SOUND O DA POLICE

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Lmao, obviously you don't know much about aftermarket exhausts. Some people purposely tune their engines to get "pops and burbles" as well.

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If theres no sonic boom to go along with it, it's usually not a gunshot. Obviously it could be subsonic like a handgun or shotgun, but 99% of the time its something else usually from construction.

Like, as a reminder, powder actuated tools used on every construction site ever use .22 blanks to operate.

>tfw you want to start making onions green out of yuppies who are so retarded they think a 2 stroke motor is as loud as a gun

It means offensive to ears, not to people's feefees

Excess fuel in the combustion chbsr on a bike that was power chipped leads to backfire when throttle off to shift.

Combustion carries through to exhaust

Subaru WRX sti and Nissan gtr cars backfire as well in launch control

shut up. no one gives a shit about your semantics. people know it as backfire and that is what it will be.

>t. webster faggot

DATS THE SOUND OF DA BEAST

Mel! You are cigarette is backwerds..!
Silly Mel!

my car afterfires often when I downshift. Its a stock 06 impreza, non turbo.

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Jesus christ it's the 60-year-old 6-year old!

Who else is willing to waste their time performing live theater than a 50 year old failed actress who teaches english and drama 3 at the local highschool

Dirtbikes clapped out for the street backfire a lot and theyre pretty popular in metro areas for being the most fun you can have for under $3k

making normal niggers run for their pathetic lives sounds pretty fun

Afterfires occur after the engine has been killed and afterfire is a kind of backfire. Nice attempt at looking like you know what you're talking about though.

I used to have a truck that would of you floored it for a second & then released the accelerator. I had a lot of fun with it when I drove by nogs. It was fun to see them jump.

>buy suzuki drz400 for $1500
>buy some gold colored cast wheels
>michilin rs powers
>loud af exhaust and jetted carb
>bang out wheelies up and down the street
>hop curbs and do sick jumps to avoid the cops
SuperMoto is the best life

>change an alarm to be less alarming

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>Nazis
>problem
Pick 1

My 2015 Suzuki S40 is nearly identical to its 1970 model, and as such still backfires every time I downshift. Same with my '74 Hilux, especially with anything with ethanol, but it's old as dirt.
Not really a big deal to backfire anyways unless you're a liberal faggot afraid of everything because you created a socialist paradise; where the police have no incentive to protect you, and you wilfully disarmed yourself. Frankly these cities deserve the mass shootings, and they deserve to live their lives in fear that one of their creations might kill them while the police sit in the parking lot "waiting for backup." The icing on the cake is their deaths will then further finance the media to help insure the status quo remains. Like cows to the slaughter.

>T. Abraham Lincoln

These people WANT to be scared. They crave fearmongering and look forward to the latest awful headlines. They secretly desire to be victims. And eventually, they all will be. It will probably be the government kicking their doors down for thought crimes though.

That's an issue with noise pollution. Particularly in an enclosed corridor a 135DB siren is completely unnecessary and deafens pedestrians. Spend any time trapped in a city and you'll understand that it's one of the things that slowly drives people insane.

Imagine not being able to distinguish a small engine back fire from a gunshot.

PA 300 is still the best. Bad enough Mount Sinai requires their ambulance drivers to use the European dual tones. I'd rather listen to the electronic yelps or even old fashioned, truly deafening, mechanical sirens (and even the electronic Q), than that Euro stuff. Part of NYC's identity is its emergency services and hearing HUH-HAH, HUH-HAH, HUH-HAH nonstop would be a disgrace. I'm not in Paris.

A lot of those people have probably never heard a gun before. Big part of it is setting, people are more cautious when in crowded places and even if they don't hear anything themselves then they will still be panicked by others reacting to what they thought they heard.

>I have an RX7, it dumps fuel into the exhaust pretty much any time it isn’t on throttle.
Yeah I think your RX7 is proper fucked, buddy.

They're in NYC, those people have heard gunfire. It's like the balloons in the LA airport terminal all over again. People hear what they want to hear.

but guns are super illegal and banned in NYC. I thought banning guns makes you safe and prevents shootings?

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The sound of a piece of particle board or plywood landing flat after falling 2 stories is extremely loud and resembles gunfire. The gunfire is usually safer than the worksites too.

>Cars do not backfire anymore

yes, they do.

you're not very smart, are you?

There's a lot of tourists from around the world so they may not know, some may know and those are the ones that stay calm when they can tell it's not gunshots.
Some NYers would also want to pretend they've never heard it because "No, not here. Guns are bad and people (in the nicer areas) don't have those." until they hear a noise and the thought enters their head that they're the next defenseless victim. Then they panic because the momentary realizations hits them that maybe the laws didn't work.

>2
OP you must have some hearing damage or some thing, I def hear three gays having sex.

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An afterfire sounds almost exactly the same and has become pretty much synonymous with the term "backfire" these days. You are correct that fuel injected engines are nearly incapable of backfiring though.

Do they have some kind of large experimental armor under their clothes?

This. Thank you. I was just dumbfounded thinking “does no one know what anti lag is?” But then again wrong board.

>tourists
Are you implying that a Chinese fire drill could potentially break out in Times Square? Because I want to see it.

All after-fires are backfires but not all backfires are after-fires. If you say after-fire you are just being specific. All beans are legumes but not all legumes are beans.

I think most wear plates if the district can afford it. Asked a local cop about his bodycam that looked like it was just floating on him, turns out it's magnetic and they just clap it to the plates

What a FUCKING pig. Jesus Christ, get shown they are retards and it's suddenly "WHY ARE YOU WASTING OUR TIME?"

They evacuated a mall last night after a falling stand initiated a stampede. Everybody's a bit jumpy.

underrated

>implying those are even people
how the hell do you get "jumpy" in a first world country? these are literal npcs

This is another example of the toxic environment created by Trump’s white nationalist rhetoric combined with America’s ongoing gun crisis. Women and minorities can no longer feel safe even watching a performance, or shopping at Walmart. Instead of focusing on progress, they are forced to watch behind their back because Trump’s deranged lunatics could appear with violence at any time, and police are powerless to act against hate speech or take precautions BEFORE gun violence erupts. We have to do better, and we will after 2020. Social media moderators must be given access to intelligence from banks and credit card companies on who has recently acquired guns, and empowered with a life saving national red flag system, similar to the Amber alert

Integral triglycerides are an ancient and popular form of cop body armor, famed for their cheapness and suitability for the vicissitudes of the lifestyle.

Nailed it.

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I imagine it went something like this

if he was upper class he would have seen lamborghinis popping

Except it isnt about making them quieter, just changing the tone.

they need to focus on changing the fucking smell, the fucking air in manhattan in the summer smells like a swamp ass coming off a basement dweller who hasnt showered for a month

Underrated trips