--- title: Stranger Things: Michigan Police Will Spoil Season 2 description: Following Michigan State football's win over Penn State, East Lansing police hatched a diabolical plot to try and make those celebrating behave. canonical: https://time.com/5012356/stranger-things-michigan-police-spoilers/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-06T22:22:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:31.042Z og:title: Michigan Police Mercilessly Promise to Spoil Stranger Things If You End Up in Jail og:description: A scarier prospect than the Upside Down og:url: https://time.com/5012356/stranger-things-michigan-police-spoilers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte044c114dbf8e4d2/6988e3e7656a3f0c04bd248b/wv_publicity_pre_launch_a_still_37-000001.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6613 og:image:height: 3720 og:image:alt: 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michigan Police Mercilessly Promise to Spoil Stranger Things If You End Up in Jail twitter:description: A scarier prospect than the Upside Down twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte044c114dbf8e4d2/6988e3e7656a3f0c04bd248b/wv_publicity_pre_launch_a_still_37-000001.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Police Mercilessly Promise to Spoil _Stranger Things_ If You End Up in Jail > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 6, 2017 10:22 PM UTC  Stranger Things Stranger Things Courtesy Netflix  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 6, 2017 10:22 PM UTC Following [Michigan](http://time.com/4988772/northern-michigan-university-marijuana-studies/) State football’s win over [Penn State](http://time.com/4854655/penn-state-fraternity-hearing-text-messages/) on Saturday, East Lansing Police hatched a diabolical plot to try and make those celebrating the victory behave. The department first took to Twitter to issue a more generic warning about the night’s festivities. “GO GREEN! We have extra police officers in EL on overtime tonight,” [they wrote](https://twitter.com/EastLansingPD/status/926958744675680256?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Fuproxx.com%2Fwebculture%2Fmichigan-police-stranger-things-2-spoilers%2F), as noted by [Uproxx](http://uproxx.com/webculture/michigan-police-stranger-things-2-spoilers/). “Celebrate this win the right way, don’t do something you will regret.” But after further consideration, it appears they decided folks needed some added incentive to stay on the right side of the law. It was then that they announced they would ruin the second season of [_Stranger Things_](http://time.com/5011841/stranger-things-death/)— which dropped on Netflix on Oct. 27 — for anyone who ended up in jail. “We’ve taped Stranger Things spoilers all over the walls of our jail this week,” they tweeted. “Some extra motivation for you to not end up there.” We’re not sure Chief Hopper would approve. > [](https://twitter.com/EastLansingPD/status/926958744675680256) > [](https://twitter.com/EastLansingPD/status/927218045860438017) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5012356/stranger-things-michigan-police-spoilers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5012356/stranger-things-michigan-police-spoilers/"},"headline":"Police Mercilessly Promise to Spoil Stranger Things If You End Up in Jail","datePublished":"2017-11-06T22:22:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:31.042Z","description":"A scarier prospect than the Upside Down","url":"https://time.com/5012356/stranger-things-michigan-police-spoilers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Television","Michigan","police","TV","Stranger Things"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte044c114dbf8e4d2/6988e3e7656a3f0c04bd248b/wv_publicity_pre_launch_a_still_37-000001.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte044c114dbf8e4d2/6988e3e7656a3f0c04bd248b/wv_publicity_pre_launch_a_still_37-000001.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2","caption":"2","creditText":"Courtesy Netflix","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5012356/stranger-things-michigan-police-spoilers/","name":"Police Mercilessly Promise to Spoil Stranger Things If You End Up in Jail"}}]}] ```