I get so MAD!

April 4th, 2005 at 12:00pm Posted by Bill

In a comment to one of my recent posts, Tabitha reminded me of something that happened to us several years ago.

About 10 years ago, we were renting a pretty big old house in the heart of the ‘hood, on NE Fremont right down the street from MLK. We had just put the boys to bed (this was of course before we had Lexi), and Kathy and I hopped in the upstairs shower before going to bed. While we were in there, we heard kind of a “plink” sound, and thought that maybe one of the boys had gotten out of bed and were in the bathroom. They were sound asleep, however, and while checking out the source of the sound a bit later, we noticed flashing red and blue lights outside.

I went outside to talk to the police and see what was going on. Apparently a drug deal about 1/2 block away had gone bad, and someone took several shots at someone else with some sort of handgun. They missed the person, but at least one of the shots went wild.

The next morning, I saw a clean bullet hole in the 1st floor rain gutter. The bullet had been stopped by an old cast iron pipe that was capped off, but had been left in the wall of the old house. If the cast iron pipe had not been there, the trajectory was such that the bullet could have continued throught the wall and hit me or Kathy in the ankle or leg.

We moved about a month later.

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