When police responded to a complaint about a drunken house party in the wealthy suburb of Rye, N.Y., the 50 high school students inside responded by locking the doors and going on with the party for three hours. Many of them were the children of attorneys, and they knew that police couldn’t enter without a search warrant. “It was a scene with parents knocking on the windows, saying, ‘You’ll never drive again,’” one mother said. When the kids finally emerged, police found beer cans and liquor bottles in every room.
Source: The Week Newsletter