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Gunshots in South Berkeley
does anyone have any info??
I just heard about 10 really loud gunshots in the vicinity of Sacramento and Ashby in South Berkeley. Anyone know what the hell is up? My neighbors are calling for their kids, getting everyone inside because it sounds really close and it keeps going on. There were at least 10 shots over a period of 4 minutes.
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It sounded like large caliber guns. I also heard what sounded like the drone of one or more airplanes. Sounded like at least two different pitches of drone. It all sounded military...
Also, I heard this stuff around 9:00pm, not 6:15 when the article was posted, so this was possible a separate incident in the same area.
see http://www.srl.org/shows/archive
post on this page was at 6pm, SRL show
was from 8pm to 9pm, and it was several
blocks away from Ashby & Sacramento,
it was at the intersection of Hollis and Ashby,
down by OSH hardware. They were running a
machine that makes a very loud booming noise,
an air cannon, but the blast and sound wave
is directed at one spot, and it's a big muffled
boom, it doesn't sound like a gunshot at all.
The cannon shoots about once every 2 minutes,
so you would have heard a boom, every couple
of minutes at regular intervals, doesn't sound
like a gun battle.
I'm guessing I heard some sort of "grand finale". A bunch of different robots/loud things, along with one or more cannons. In fact, when I heard it, I thought I was hearing mortar fire, which is probably what an "air cannon" sounds like. I was definitely scared, whatever the explanation.