Comment by cucumber3732842

>I feel it is mostly to spam people with these percussive noises so that we get fatigued with them, so that "Shotspotter" is spammed with false positives, and so that boomer Karens fatigue the cops in turn with calling in "gunshots heard" when there were no gunshots at all. If you get so fatigued with hearing car exhaust backfires all night, you'll probably be duly surprised, and unlikely/unable to promptly react, when a real drive-by shooting goes down.

I like it even more when you put it like that, lol

I live where we both have the kind of people with the machine gun tune on their car and we have real gunshots. It's actually pretty obvious which is which. The cars aren't that bad. You don't notice them unless they're "novel" like misfiring or a grossly out of round semi trailer tire or something.