The Highlife House vrs.Commonwealth of PA

It was the first week of the fall semester during my "senior" year. We decided that we were going to have a small get together. We bought a keg of Nattie Ice, got on our respective horns and invited a few people over.

We ended up with about 10 people and the 4 roomates, hardly a party. Our neighbors were having a slightly larger party with well over 50 people, their party was very loud compared to ours. At about 10:00 there were a few of us on the back porch smoking cigarettes and drinking shitty beer. We could barley hear each other over the neighbors party. At about 10:10, a cop car pulls into the alley between the two houses, a cop went to each of the houses. They threaten some of my party guests to go inside or the they were going to come into the house and turn down the music, or we were going to get a noise violation.

The cops only came to our house becasue our neighbors party was reported by the town dick across the street for being to loud. They had no reason to come to our house and threaten this action. About an hour later, the cop was just driving down the road and saw that we still had a party going. Officer Buttnugget came and gave us a noise violation.

Now, most college students would just buck up the few hundred bucks and pay the fine. Not us, we were going to fight this tooth and nail. We went, plead not guilty and paid a refundable $50 and started to devise a plan.

We had a house meeting to decide how we were going to fight this bullshit charge. We researched the city noise ordanice and found out that it contains a very loose defination of what is considered a noise violation.