--- title: Police Play Video Games After Responding to Noise Complaint description: Police who responded to a noise complaint at an apartment where the tenants were simply playing video games decided to join in on the fun. canonical: https://time.com/5476813/police-noise-complaint-video-games/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-11T18:00:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:22.760Z og:title: Police Responding to Noise Complaint Join the Party og:description: "Instead of something negative...it was something wholesome" og:url: https://time.com/5476813/police-noise-complaint-video-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e697b7133d29c66/6989414d22fb85a7b7e27618/video-game-party.jpg?branch=production&width=509&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 509 og:image:height: 286 og:image:alt: Video-Game-Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Responding to Noise Complaint Join the Party twitter:description: "Instead of something negative...it was something wholesome" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e697b7133d29c66/6989414d22fb85a7b7e27618/video-game-party.jpg?branch=production&width=509&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Police Responding to Noise Complaint Decide to Just Join the Party > 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 Dec 11, 2018 6:00 PM UTC  Game controllers Game controllers MrKornFlakes/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 11, 2018 6:00 PM UTC [Police](http://time.com/5476160/new-york-police-toddler-mother-brooklyn/) who responded to a noise complaint at an apartment where the tenants were simply [playing video games](http://time.com/5467145/sony-playstation-classic-review/) decided to join in on the fun. According to [Jovante M. Williams](https://twitter.com/JoviJenovi?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor), after one of his friend’s neighbors began repeatedly calling in noise complaints when he would invite people over to his apartment, a few cops wanted in on the video game action. “At my friends’ apartment, there’s been a couple of noise complaints going on, from the same people. Lately, we’ve been playing our games on mute; we don’t want to bother anyone,” Williams told [Yahoo](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/police-respond-noise-complaint-end-playing-video-games-respectful-tenants-002329963.html). “We’re not trouble. We’re adults. Sometimes, we drink beer.” Williams took to social media on Sunday to share a video of him and his friends battling the police officers in a game of [Super Smash Bros](http://time.com/5473979/super-smash-bros-ultimate-switch-review/). “SO NEIGHBORS CALLED THE COPS ON US AND NOW WE FIGHTING THEM… … IN SMASH BROS,” he captioned the post. > [](https://twitter.com/JoviJenovi/status/1071657574179704833) Williams went on to say that he felt uplifted by the group’s interaction with the officers. “We got a lot of cops. We’re telling them this is the same noise level we’ve been having. They confirmed, a few times, that we weren’t even loud,” he said. “You see so many videos of terrible results…I’m not trying to end up in jail or hurt, or have my friends harmed, or to start a commotion. But you know what? I heard the police asking, ‘What\[‘s\] _Smash Brothers_?’ Instead of something negative…it was something wholesome.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5476813/police-noise-complaint-video-games/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5476813/police-noise-complaint-video-games/"},"headline":"Police Responding to Noise Complaint Decide to Just Join the Party","datePublished":"2018-12-11T18:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:22.760Z","description":"\"Instead of something negative...it was something wholesome\"","url":"https://time.com/5476813/police-noise-complaint-video-games/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e697b7133d29c66/6989414d22fb85a7b7e27618/video-game-party.jpg?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/blt5e697b7133d29c66/6989414d22fb85a7b7e27618/video-game-party.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Video-Game-Party","caption":"Game controllers","creditText":"MrKornFlakes/Getty Images","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/5476813/police-noise-complaint-video-games/","name":"Police Responding to Noise Complaint Decide to Just Join the Party"}}]}] ```