Smart students come up with novel use for large-screen TV
By adamg - 9/25/09 - 2:18 pm
Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports two BU students moved the TV in front of their door to try to keep out Boston cops responding to reports of a giant kegger at their Gardner Street pad.
It worked. For an hour. No word if police broke out a battering ram, though.
Smart until proven stupid.
Comments
Can't they also get popped
Can't they also get popped with either resisting arrest or hindering a police investigation or something with that stunt?
This is exactly why the real people who live here are always complaining about the asshole students.
Shall we call cops on you?
We can always tell them that you have underage drinkers in your home. Then they should just be able to break down the door, right?
The constitution doesn't apply to them.
Oh, but you are different ... you are not a student. Cops should just break down doors of bad people, not you. Until it happens to you.
Strawman
What part of what Stewart said has anything to do with the cops breaking the door down or entering without probable cause or anything else that happened here?
The part where ...
he equates "not letting the cops just barge into your house" with "resisting arrest".
Also the part where he effectively declares that being a student isn't normal and is apriori criminal.
The cops do not get to just barge into a home just because they "think" a crime is going on. Otherwise, what is to keep people from saying "that guy kaz at 123 abc street has underage drinking going on", resulting in the cops breaking down your door when you are asleep?
Probable cause, heard of it?
They don't have to "think" a crime is happening. They have to have probable cause. If they look in and see someone they believe to be underage drinking alcohol, then they have probable cause. It sounds as if these numbnuts were about to get busted because they answered the door or numerous people were going out at the time and while the cops busied themselves arresting someone leaving with booze, the residents shut the door on them and threw a TV in front of it to keep it shut. If the cops watched a drunk under-aged person walk out of your house with tequila in his hand, then they have probable cause.
You don't get to evade the police by physically keeping them from you if they have the legal right to arrest you. That's left the realm of your petulant "they can't arrest you because they *think* you did something wrong" and entered the realm of "you just added to the trouble you were *already* in when they had every legal right to arrest you in the first place".
And, yes, you *can* call the cops and tell them some lie about me serving booze to underage kids at my house, but they don't get to arrest me, of course, until they get there and determine the probable cause for themselves. Of course, do that often enough and they'll have their own probable cause to arrest *you* for false reporting and a civil suit from me for harassment.
real people
Students are being treated differently than "real people" (whatever that means) when it comes to how the BPD engages them when they're having parties in their apartments.
If the BPD crosses the line and violates their rights, I hope some "non-real person's" rich parents takes the city to the cleaners because we could use a BPD that respects the rights of suspects.
Oh, y'know...
We people who will still be living here next September and therefore don't treat the neighborhood streets like it's their own private playground that their rich parents bought for them.
Also, when we real people have parties, they don't end with our guests smashing the side mirrors off people's cars. So the BPD doesn't actually have to get involved when we have parties.
I do hope this helps clear things up for you.
....as a Boston resident who
....as a Boston resident who happens to be going to school and pays her own rent and respects her neighborhood....
that is incredibly, incredibly insulting. Don't generalize everyone who is a student.
Good for you
Now take a stroll down Pratt or Ashford in about 90 minutes and then tell me how all your peers are as well mannered and thoughtful as you.
Any idiot
Any idiot who chooses to live near Pratt or Ashford, knowing damn well the apartments will be rented to students (fake people) who go to school at nearby BU, BC and Harvard only calls attention to their own poor judgment when they bitch about their neighborhood.
Not wanting to appear unsympathetic, I hope your quality of life improves soon and if not, you have the wherewithal to relocate.
Nice try
We bought this house in 1957. No students lived in this neighborhood in 1957. We were here first, and why should we have to leave?
But thank you for playing.
Believe me. It would make me
Believe me. It would make me perfectly happy if you choose to stay.
Aren't you from TX?
Aren't you from TX?
What the animal house crew
What the animal house crew does doesn't affect me aside from giving a whole demographic a bad name. Therefore, I choose not to associate with them. Hell, I'm all for the cops rounding 'em up, I'm sick of being associated with that shit just because I'm a student.
I have lost my UHub virginity
Swirly made a brainless strawman argument in response to something I said.
Sniff...
I couldn't be more proud.
Kind of like having your
Kind of like having your first sex with an, ahem.... escort. A big deal for you, but for her, you're just another in a long line.
methinks that
there may be some unresolved issues at play here...
I'd like to know how large
I'd like to know how large this house was that they could fit 200 partying students into it! The part about the big screen TV made me chuckle...
I have to say wtf are you
I have to say wtf are you talking Swirrly? Chance are, if the police find a house with 200 people with college students with so many drinking (and with 200 people, there's no way it will be quiet), I say it is a pretty reasonable conclusion to knock on the door. The fact they used a TV to block the door and running around the roof gives an even more justified reason.
I'm a BU student and have reservations about the law being 21, but police seeing a house of 200 people will have just cause. There no way it will be quiet.