The house next door to us is a rental, home to four male IUP students. Like so many college students, they like to party. Loudly. In the middle of the night. Their first party was the weekend before classes started. They were outside on their back porch until about 4 AM. It kept us up for a while but we didn't do anything about it; we decided to wait and see if it became a regular occurrence.
So last night we came home from watching the TCU/Texas game with some friends (so sad) and a party was in full swing on their back porch. I decided to give them til midnight and then I was going to call the police. (Online research had told us that Indiana has a 24 hour a day noise ordinance which they were definitely breaking.) But we were saved the trouble when the police showed up around 11:30. Apparently they could hear the party from their car a block away! Most of the kids ran into the house and tried to hide from the police, so there was a lot of yelling on the part of the police and threatening to get the landlord to open the door. Eventually the kids came out and dispersed, and the kids who live in the house got a big lecture from the police. Not surprisingly, there seemed to be a lot of minors in attendance at this party and everyone had been drinking.
So this is life in a college town, I guess. I was very reassured by what I saw last night, knowing that the police take disruptive/underage partying seriously. I won't hesitate to call next time if it turns out our neighbors didn't learn their lesson.
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