Shuttin it Down

Well, I guess I'm the party pooper and no one really knew. By that I mean that I finally called the cops on a party as a noise complaint. I had been thinking about it forever as parties in the court yard of my apartment could get real loud. With my window being right next to the court yard and most parties not starting until after 12 it could become extremely difficult to get some sleep.

A few weeks ago I was at Jonathan and Michelle's and a party across the street started up and I saw Jonathan call it in. I got the number he called and was ready to use it.

At 1pm last night the a party drifted in front of my window. To give you a better idea as to how bad this is I could hear to people perfectly as though they were in my room talking. This is combined with yelling "woohoo." So, I got the distributor who asked me my name, number, address, and some details. She then asked me if I was willing to make a citizens arrest. I was upset and tired at the time and said yes.

In less than 10 minutes the cop showed up and shut down the party. I could hear him talking from my room and I heard him bring up the citizen arrest thing. I really didn't want anyone to get in trouble, I just wanted the noise to calm down. Not sure if anything happened to the person though.

This of course made me nervous as I had never done anything like that before. Thinking I had broken some underwritten law of PB, a party pooper in PB, heresy! Anyway, you could hear a pin drop after the cop left. Fell asleep a short while later.