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DelilahDeb -> RE: Hypothetical Situation (10/17/2008 3:24:56 AM)
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If it sounds like abusse, call in a domestic disturbance. And if you are concerned about retribution from a neighbor afterwards, call anonymously.
I lived in the basement below a gay couple's flat in San Fran for years, and called in a double D on them twice. It's hard to mistake the sounds of someone being slammed into the wall when that same wall has a (boarded-over) laundry chute down to the former houseboy's hovel.) The police never once called me back, much less came to my door.
And nowadays I live alone in a single family residence, and when a neighbor's party gets too loud for too long, I call the cops just on an noise complaint. Because they are equipped to deal with potentially drunk or hostile partyers at one ack emma, and I am not.
And, at least in the Pacific Northwest, police departments have been educated (largely by the work of kinky activists in the region) to the point that one of my subs recounts the tale of a play party several years back that took place in greater Portland (Oregon) when a sub screaming enthusiastically under the flogger brought a pair of police offiices to the door. And they were politely met and behaved politely, and accepted the explanation that there was play going on, and said that they'd have to hear it from the woman screaming. And she was removed from scene and wrapped in a blanket and came down enough to confirm that, yes, thank you, it was consensual, and she was sorry to have disturbed anyone. Whereupon the cops thanked everyone for their co-operation, and went outside to their cruiser, and remained there on the street for another fifteen or twenty minutes to see what ensued.
Et volá, no fuss, no muss.
BUT. I would rather call the cops and embarrass a neighbor a dozen times than have a body removed from a neighbor's home because *I* chose not to call.
Yes, it can be difficult to choose. Behooves folk to think just a little ahead before they scene, eh?
Lady Delilah Deb
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