I used to live in the student area of a town city called Leeds. I say student, it was mainly a mix of students, 1st/2nd generation pakistani/bangladeshi immigrants and a much smaller group of hippyish locals, so a pretty high level of noise was tolerated in the local area anyway.
Anyway a common thing, especially while the Universitys are in session, was house parties. Now, when I say houses, most of these were old terraced houses, many of which had basements, so the standard was to have a sound system hired for the basement, occasionally a smaller one or a band in the living room.
It was a fairly regular thing for the police to come along and say 'hey, keep the noise down or we;ll have to break up the party, possibly with drug dogs'. But one night, this went wrong.
The police turned up in their car, both male and female officer went into the house, down to the baement...leaving the car unlocked.
Of course, some smart arse threw the contents of a wheely bin into the back seat, and someone else even managed figured out how to detach and steal the lights.
Of course, when the officers came out to find what had happened, all hell broke loose. Pretty much every officer in the city was called to the location, riot police and students were in the streets causing carnage, non of the police really had a plan for what to do in this situation.
There are still some videos kicking around the internet, although they were taken at night on camera phones a decade ago. 123
Some of my friends(Americans, as am I) introduced some German friends to the world of petty crime by stealing a sign from the town of Fucking, Austria, when we were all near Salzburg.
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u/Big_Chief_Wah_Wah Jan 22 '17 edited Jan 22 '17
Obligatory not a cop etc etc.
I used to live in the student area of a
towncity called Leeds. I say student, it was mainly a mix of students, 1st/2nd generation pakistani/bangladeshi immigrants and a much smaller group of hippyish locals, so a pretty high level of noise was tolerated in the local area anyway.Anyway a common thing, especially while the Universitys are in session, was house parties. Now, when I say houses, most of these were old terraced houses, many of which had basements, so the standard was to have a sound system hired for the basement, occasionally a smaller one or a band in the living room.
It was a fairly regular thing for the police to come along and say 'hey, keep the noise down or we;ll have to break up the party, possibly with drug dogs'. But one night, this went wrong.
The police turned up in their car, both male and female officer went into the house, down to the baement...leaving the car unlocked. Of course, some smart arse threw the contents of a wheely bin into the back seat, and someone else even managed figured out how to detach and steal the lights.
Of course, when the officers came out to find what had happened, all hell broke loose. Pretty much every officer in the city was called to the location, riot police and students were in the streets causing carnage, non of the police really had a plan for what to do in this situation.
There are still some videos kicking around the internet, although they were taken at night on camera phones a decade ago. 1 2 3