OT---Gunshot at 3:AM!!!

Jiles · Nov 16, 2013

About a week ago, My wife and I were awakened at three in the morning by what sounded like a small caliber shotgun. My two older sons--in their late teens--both hunt and are knowledgeable about guns.
I grabbed my 38 S&W and looked down the hall. Stepped into the hall to meet both boys and we searched the entire house and around the outside, and found nothing!
This morning, my wife called me into the kitchen and asked why the lid was off the sorghum molasses.
It was in a container similar to a paint can. We both had a laugh when we determined ---that must have been the "gunshot" we heard!
Is it common for this to sometimes happen?

gasfsd · Nov 16, 2013

I am glad that I don"t have to live that way.

Dick2 · Nov 16, 2013

Any time gases/pressure builds up, there can be an "explosion".

Mom always used to tell that during prohibition one of the neighbors made beer in their basement and bottled it. One day the preacher came calling and while they were visiting, bottles of fresh beer started exploding in the basement, with the caps hitting the floorboards of the house with a "thud". Neighbors knew what it was but didn't want to investigate while the preacher was there (although he probably could tell by the smell what was happening).

tn terry t · Nov 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 13:48:09 11/16/13) I am glad that I don"t have to live that way.

EALLY?

Fergienewbee · Nov 16, 2013

Reminds me of the time when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade and took vinegar and baking soda mixed together in a bottle with a rubber-capped eye dropper. Quite a surprise when the rubber exploded in my pocket before I even got to school. That kind of ended my chemistry experiments.

Larry

Mark - IN. · Nov 16, 2013

When the cork pops on the jug, the shine is ready to drink, no matter time of day.

I was in a Cabela's the other day, and they're getting ready for the holidays. The had the typical Christmas cards out of reindeer trying to hide from Santa toting a shotgun, things like that. But had a card that made me chuckle. One of a father snowman quipping at his snowboy that he warned him. The snowboy holding his bb-gun with one of his pieces of charcoal (eyes) lying in the snow. I thought that was a funny card.

Mark
Mark

ss55 · Nov 16, 2013

When I was a kid we had several older cans of food go bad and explode in the kitchen cabinets. The time a can of cherry pie filling popped it really made a mess in the back of a lower cabinet.

Expiration dates on today's foods help to identify the oldest stock to be used next.

I'm glad no family members shot at each other, it happens more often than people will admit.

Jiles · Nov 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 21:45:27 11/16/13) When I was a kid we had several older cans of food go bad and explode in the kitchen cabinets. The time a can of cherry pie filling popped it really made a mess in the back of a lower cabinet.

Expiration dates on today's foods help to identify the oldest stock to be used next.

I'm glad no family members shot at each other, it happens more often than people will admit.

[b:f67af8ff7f]I'm glad no family members shot at each other"
[/b:f67af8ff7f]I have thought about that many times!
Before I stepped into the hall--I cried out to them and even then
if they had been younger---the outcome may have been bad!
Strange that there was no spilled liquid anywhere, and the can was full and was not out of date.
I am just assuming that was the sound we heard.

tg in VA · Nov 16, 2013

Back in the early 50's my parents and another couple made home brew (I operated the capper).
They stored it in our basement to let it age. One night the bottles started to explode. Sounded like a small war...boy did it stink, what a mess to clean up.

Gambles · Nov 16, 2013

About 40 years ago when my sister was still living at home, my mom told her to start breakfast early while we finished milking. She reached in the 'fridge to get one of those tubes of biscuits and started to tear the thing open. It was past the "use by" date by a couple of months and the thing exploded on her. There were about 10 (how many are in one of those packages anyway?) biscuits laying around the kitchen in various places and I think one was stuck to a shelf near the ceiling. It scared her so bad that she was crying and shaking. I remind her about it every couple of years and she tells me that she still won't buy any of those biscuits from the store.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 16, 2013

I heard what I thought was a gunshot, turned out to be my spare
tire on the big truck, just decided to pop several cords, and blow a
hole through the tread.

Goose · Nov 16, 2013

When my wife and I lived in town, we were awakened at 2am once by the sound of a chain saw in front of our house. Since we had a large tree in our front yard, that got our attention!

Turned out a house moving company was moving a house down our street and they did it at that time of night 'cause they had to kill power and move electric lines, etc. Also had to saw a few tree limbs that needed it anyway.

NEKS · Nov 16, 2013

The first sonic boom we heard dad was setting in the outhouse. He thought the house had blowed up with mom and the kids in there.

Bret4207 · Nov 17, 2013

(quoted from post at 13:45:27 11/16/13)

I'm glad no family members shot at each other, it happens more often than people will admit.

Please, provide some proof to back up that claim. You make it sound as thought average citizens are having shoot outs int heir homes every night.

Bret4207 · Nov 17, 2013

(quoted from post at 10:48:09 11/16/13) I am glad that I don"t have to live that way.

Live like what? Like someone willing to protect their lives and property?

Texasmark1 · Nov 17, 2013

Around here Armadillos and skunks are the nuisance critters. Both
are nocturnal. If you have to do any exterminating it has to be
around midnight or thereabouts. Sometimes I have had the
neighbors call me and ask if everything is ok. Course that was the
night I got four of them.

Mark

PJH · Nov 17, 2013

Yes, and Mom & the kids probably thought the outhouse had blown up with Dad in there, ha.

My wife's parents had a boarder in the fifties. He was a super religious man, and one evening at supper a jet made a particularly loud sonic boom. Old Ben, thinking the Lord had returned, jumped up from the table, and ran out the back door, looking up at the sky. They found him at the bottom of the open outdoor basement steps, wounded and bleeding, but no broken bones.

I had a 10.00X20 manure spreader tire blow up one summer night. It sounded like a shotgun blast. It took a few days to figure out where the noise came from.

I have an old ammo can in the closet that makes a "whump" sound twice a day, I guess from temperature change. Took a while to figure that thing out, too.

Kenneth R Ohnstad · Nov 17, 2013

home made biskits is best

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Nov 17, 2013

Last Wednesday a few minutes after noon I heard a muffled shotgun blast. I live in a rural area and such is not unusual, one of the neighbors or myself is always eliminating varmints. I glanced out the window and did not see anyone, and didn't think anything more of it. A couple hours later I went out to the garage and found a rear tire blown out on my handicap scooter.

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