Woman Sleeping Through Music Triggers Noise Complaint

Officers responded a report of loud music blaring from a Bunker Hill Street home early Sunday morning, and struggled to inform the occupant of the complaint.

Several nearby residents complained about the noise, prompting two officers to arrive outside the building around 3:19 a.m., according to a police report.

The officers reported that they could hear the “very loud music coming from the open windows of a second floor apartment” while still across the street.

They proceeded inside the building and knocked on the apartment’s door for 25 minutes, according to the report, before they could raise the home’s resident.

Once she answered the door, the occupant said she didn’t know why the officers had arrived.

Officers had to yell over the music to get the occupant to shut it off, the report said.

Once the music had been shut off, the woman told officers that she didn’t think the music had been playing that loudly and that she had been sleeping through it.

Around that time “officers observed a half-empty bottle of vodka,” which the occupant said she had consumed.

At the point, officers advised her to go back to bed and not to drink any more alcohol.