- Mar 10, 2007
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Alright, due to my house burning down in January, I am staying with a friend of mine. I am 20 and he is 19. He is renting this house from his parents, who actually own the house.
He has decided to attach himself to a bevy of highschoolers for his friends. Without any type of parental figure present, this house has become a hangout spot for 20+ underage high school students. They come and go as they please - no calls, no knocking on the door, no asking to come in. They just walk in, make themselves at home, do what they will, and then leave; but not before smoking weed here.
Here is the predicament:
I will be turning 21 on April 2nd. He works with a lot of older guys who occasionally buy him beer and his high school friends almost always show up with a full bag of weed. Now, I don't smoke anything and I only drink during social occasions, but with me being the oldest one in the household, and soon to be legal to buy alcohol, I am almost positive that the cops are going to show up due to the large number of teenagers coming and going, and they are going to charge me with providing alcohol to minors as well as the drug charges.
Now, I have spoken to my friend whom I'm staying with about this and he shrugged it off. Typical of him. He told me that if the cops show up and find the beer and drugs, he will just get a warning and (his words) "maybe if the cops are being assholes, I will get a small fine."
As you can see, he doesn't understand how the real world works and most likely won't fully comprehend it until he is sitting in jail awaiting to be prosecuted for the aforementioned crimes - most likely awaiting a prison sentence.
What I am wondering, is if there is anything I can do to help prove my innocence, should the cops come over. My room is right across a very small hallway to the room where they all smoke and the smell usually filters into my room. I have incense lit almost 24/7 to mask the smell for my own benefit, but if the cops come in here and smell incense, their instincts will tell them that I am hiding something. Also, more times than not, the kids leave the bedroom door open which fills the entire house full of smoke. Until it airs out, I don't leave my room. During this occasion where the house is being ventilated, you can actually see smoke coming out of the windows and screen-door - which is another big risk if someone called the fire department, the cops would show up as well.
Sorry for the long post, but I want to know if there are any type of precautionary measures I can take to vindicate myself as being innocent. And yes, I know moving out would be step one, but I don't have the money, nor the time since I have a full-time college schedule.
Any input on this is greatly appreciated.
He has decided to attach himself to a bevy of highschoolers for his friends. Without any type of parental figure present, this house has become a hangout spot for 20+ underage high school students. They come and go as they please - no calls, no knocking on the door, no asking to come in. They just walk in, make themselves at home, do what they will, and then leave; but not before smoking weed here.
Here is the predicament:
I will be turning 21 on April 2nd. He works with a lot of older guys who occasionally buy him beer and his high school friends almost always show up with a full bag of weed. Now, I don't smoke anything and I only drink during social occasions, but with me being the oldest one in the household, and soon to be legal to buy alcohol, I am almost positive that the cops are going to show up due to the large number of teenagers coming and going, and they are going to charge me with providing alcohol to minors as well as the drug charges.
Now, I have spoken to my friend whom I'm staying with about this and he shrugged it off. Typical of him. He told me that if the cops show up and find the beer and drugs, he will just get a warning and (his words) "maybe if the cops are being assholes, I will get a small fine."
As you can see, he doesn't understand how the real world works and most likely won't fully comprehend it until he is sitting in jail awaiting to be prosecuted for the aforementioned crimes - most likely awaiting a prison sentence.
What I am wondering, is if there is anything I can do to help prove my innocence, should the cops come over. My room is right across a very small hallway to the room where they all smoke and the smell usually filters into my room. I have incense lit almost 24/7 to mask the smell for my own benefit, but if the cops come in here and smell incense, their instincts will tell them that I am hiding something. Also, more times than not, the kids leave the bedroom door open which fills the entire house full of smoke. Until it airs out, I don't leave my room. During this occasion where the house is being ventilated, you can actually see smoke coming out of the windows and screen-door - which is another big risk if someone called the fire department, the cops would show up as well.
Sorry for the long post, but I want to know if there are any type of precautionary measures I can take to vindicate myself as being innocent. And yes, I know moving out would be step one, but I don't have the money, nor the time since I have a full-time college schedule.
Any input on this is greatly appreciated.
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