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My poor BIL
Bahaha - my poor brother in law!!
My BIL is living at my parents' cabin right now because he took a job in northern MN and it is commutable from my folks' house in northern WI. My sister is living/working in Chicago until they can get their house finished and put on the market.
BIL arrives at the house about 45 minutes after my parents left last night. He was sitting on the deck talking on his cell phone to my sister. He hears sirens and lots of commotion and tells my sister he's got to go. He walks around the corner of the house to see 2 squads and 2 policemen walking very seriously towards him.
The officers inform him that they got a 911 call from that address and what was the trouble? Tom told them that nobody called 911 - he's only been home for about 45 minutes and had been outside talking to his wife on his cell most of the time. Nobody else is there so the call couldn't have come from that phone line. Officers don't believe him and ask for his ID. Tom hands it over and they grill him because he's from IL and what is he doing in northern WI.
Tom explains that yes, his Drivers License is from IL where he technically lives but he took a job in Duluth so he's been living at his in laws, my parents, house while his wife, my sister, is staying in Chicago to put their house on the market. They don't buy it. They ask BIL if the car in the driveway is his. He says yes. They run the plates which show that it is registered to my sister with her maiden name since she bought it before they got married. Cops get extra suspicious. They demand to do a search of the house because they're now convinced that Tom is hiding some woman, Sister Schaffy, in the house and she must be tied up but managed to call 911.
Tom waits patiently while they look around and swears up and down that the phones hadn't been working right all weekend and that his in laws had called in a service order for the line and they could certainly check with the phone company to verify that but nobody had called 911. They finally decide that there is no danger to anyone in or around the house and leave. He said he seriously thought they were going to arrest him and haul him off to jail.
now that it is over, it is pretty funny, but I would have been scared out of my mind if that had happened to me. Tom said they never pulled their weapons but they were obviously quite serious about making sure that all was well and probably would have pulled them if he'd moved a muscle.
Re: My poor BIL
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