OK, SO THE COPS PULL UP OUTSIDE...
Let’s get real here. The odds against a party in a private home getting busted are pretty slight. The last thing any law-enforcement agency needs is someone screaming to the high heavens that they are invading people’s privacy. Still, our folks tend to worry about this sort of thing, even though there is little need to and it is really a very easy thing to deal with.
First, forget all the NCSF bullshit. All you have to do is fool them and make them think the neighbor who called them is a nutcase. How do you do this?
First, have a rule at the party that everyone in the living room has to have their clothes on. Have the television on and a horror movie set up in the vcr/dvd ready to play at a moment’s notice. All right, got that?
Make sure someone is in the living room and can see if a squad car pulls up outside.
So let us say the unlikely happens and the lookout sounds the alarm. Everyone who is dressed runs into the living room and sits around the television. Turn on the movie, with the volume cranked as high as it can go.
When the cop comes to the front door, have the host answer the door, looking a little embarrassed and ask, “Is the television too loud, Officer?”
At this point, the cop, who was expecting to see naked people hanging from the rafters, will look rather sheepish and likewise embarrassed and then laugh and say, “You won’t believe what we got called for! Your neighbors think you were murdering someone!”
You laugh in response and say that you’ll turn the set down. And then ask, “It wasn’t the lady next door who keeps thinking the CIA is listening to her phone, was it?”
At that point, the cop will really break out laughing, wish you a good night and leave.
Now, at that point you can start the party up again, albeit a little quieter, and rejoice in the knowledge that the neighbor who called the police is now in the official nut file and nothing she says is going to be listened to again.
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Let’s get real here. The odds against a party in a private home getting busted are pretty slight. The last thing any law-enforcement agency needs is someone screaming to the high heavens that they are invading people’s privacy. Still, our folks tend to worry about this sort of thing, even though there is little need to and it is really a very easy thing to deal with.
First, forget all the NCSF bullshit. All you have to do is fool them and make them think the neighbor who called them is a nutcase. How do you do this?
First, have a rule at the party that everyone in the living room has to have their clothes on. Have the television on and a horror movie set up in the vcr/dvd ready to play at a moment’s notice. All right, got that?
Make sure someone is in the living room and can see if a squad car pulls up outside.
So let us say the unlikely happens and the lookout sounds the alarm. Everyone who is dressed runs into the living room and sits around the television. Turn on the movie, with the volume cranked as high as it can go.
When the cop comes to the front door, have the host answer the door, looking a little embarrassed and ask, “Is the television too loud, Officer?”
At this point, the cop, who was expecting to see naked people hanging from the rafters, will look rather sheepish and likewise embarrassed and then laugh and say, “You won’t believe what we got called for! Your neighbors think you were murdering someone!”
You laugh in response and say that you’ll turn the set down. And then ask, “It wasn’t the lady next door who keeps thinking the CIA is listening to her phone, was it?”
At that point, the cop will really break out laughing, wish you a good night and leave.
Now, at that point you can start the party up again, albeit a little quieter, and rejoice in the knowledge that the neighbor who called the police is now in the official nut file and nothing she says is going to be listened to again.
geovisit();