I've been on the other end of this when I was in college. I was living in my frat house over the Christmas holiday (there were 6 or 7 of us staying in the house). Someone driving by saw the lights on and called the cops thinking there was a burglary going on. Even though we had filed the proper paperwork with the university and the local police to let them know people would be in the house, they rushed in with guns drawn, cuffed us and had us on the floor. It took me about 20 minutes to convince them that they were wrong. There was never any apology from them. Instead they told us they thought it was our fault for not making it more clear that we lived there (not sure how we were supposed to do that).
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