They Were Constantly Making Noise
“This was a sort of good-natured firepower demonstration, which occurred one Sunday morning about 3:30. For reasons that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12-gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44-Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter, and crashing glass. Yet the neighbors reacted with total silence, “Thompson recalled.