Posted on Tuesday, 1st January 2008 by Patrick Dorwin
In some places, you can hear the champagne corks popping as the New year rolls in, but on the north side of Milwaukee, those aren’t corks.
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Two and a half minutes of ringing in the New Year, gang-banger style, brought to you from my doorstep… and this isn’t even a “bad part of town.”
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January 1st, 2008 at 3:56 am
Damn, is McGovern park near Iraq?
Unbelievable!!
January 1st, 2008 at 7:59 am
Tradition in most north side neighborhoods and, I suspect, becoming a tradition in some of the near south side neighborhoods as of the last 10 years. (The anti spam word is very appropriate.)
January 1st, 2008 at 10:39 am
Wow, all you’re missing is the green night-vision video with tracers crossing the sky. A couple bursts sounded a bit close.
I agree with Glenn, go to any “urban” area in the country and this is what happens.
This really is a tale of two cities, countries.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
All those illegal guns! Maybe the Flimflam man will set up an Area Saturation Patrol in front of your house next year.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Dallas tv was running commercials all evening warning people not to fire guns at midnight. Yeah….like those who do are going to listen. They sited several people who had been killed, including a baby in the womb. I don’t suppose any of these jackasses were taught the law of gravity?
January 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
If Milwaukee keeps going in the direction it is, these sounds WILL become more prevalent, and COULD even devolve into a short civil war. Something is going to have to happen to rid Milwaukee of the THUG element that is running Miwaukee’s streets, and God knows there are NO Wisconsin politicians up to this task, and they’ve tied the hands of law enforcement to the point it may well become the job of average citizens to take up arms in order to protect their homes, and families.
January 1st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Kate asks: “I don’t suppose any of these jackasses were taught the law of gravity?”
Kate, they could put a law of gravity warning on the side of a 40 ouncer and these thugs still wouldn’t understand it. The fact of the matter is no policing strategy will ever eliminate this long standing tradition. Best thing anyone can do at midnight on New Years Eve in these neighborhoods is stay away from their windows and don’t venture outside.