Busy Night for the Parker PD

At this complex, we're used to about every week or so having the cops show up for one reason or another (explosions from the third floor, people trying to shoot themselves...whatever). Well last night we got two separate visits from the cops which made for a great entertaining evening!

Around 9:00 pm Kyle and I decided to go down to the pool for a late night swim. We got down there and there was a group of about four-seven people, half of which were leaving. We didn't think anything of it and swam around having our fun. After about twenty minutes one of the people starts talking about how they don't want to ride home with the person that was going to drive because they'd been drinking. She started making a pretty strong point and was getting louder so we decided to move to the hot tub.

This is separated from the pool by bushes that you can't see over. 

So, we're in the hot tub talking and having a great time, when about twenty minutes later this woman comes strolling in. She walks over to the pool and soon all this swearing and yelling erupts. Apparently the girl that was by the pool talking about not being driven home and been ditched by her dad and left there. The woman had been drinking and wanted to take her home but the girl refused. The woman started yelling at the girl, the man that was there chimed in, and the woman slapped him across the face. At this point he starts yelling "Slap me again you drunk ... and see what happens to you!" We listen to this for about a minute and realize neither of us have our phones and those people don't know we're here in the hot tub.

We sneak out of the pool quickly and run to the apartment to get on the phone. Our apartment complex offers a courtesy patrol officer that is on the clock at night so you don't have to wait for the police to show up. I call that number, only to find out this patrol officer doesn't come on until 3:00 A.M. It's 10 P.M. What is the point of having that kind of security if they only come on after you've gotten tired of dealing with whatever is happening and called the police anyway? Quality job!

I call the police and tell dispatch about what's going on. By now these people are running down the street in front of our apartment complex screaming at each other. There's a total of six of them just screaming. Dispatch says she can hear everything and that they're getting more calls. Three squad cars show up and these people take off running. The cops are chasing them down on foot and in their vehicles.

We take Koda out for his last walk and see three of the people sitting on the grass handcuffed while the police are talking to two other people. In our walk around the building we see one police Suburban and five squad cars. The whole ordeal lasts about an hour. Not sure what happened or who/if they took anyone away, but it was an interesting show for sure.

 

Neighborhood Watch.

Around Midnight Kyle decided he wanted to go to bed. He's in the back for about five minutes when I hear loud laughing and yelling. I go onto the deck and it's the apartment over and below us having a party on their deck.

I let them yell for about five minutes until there's a break in the conversation when I say "You guys are being really loud!" I get the response of "Blargh! Drunken Yelling Bwahahaha". Really? Me saying that is your warning to shut up before I call the police. This goes off and on until about 1:00 A.M. when I decide to call the police. They show up about fifteen minutes after and talk to the renters. After the officer left, the lights went out and not another peep. Was that really so hard? All the times that I've been drinking or in a drunken stupor I've always been able to uphold my ability to not be a loud asshole at all hours of the morning. Hopefully that visit will help them be able to do the same thing.