If the poolhouse has an air conditioner, sofa-bed, kitchen, and bathroom, does it become a “home”?
White privilege
Regardless if the police acted illegally, I think the OP should file a complaint about their conduct. Because their actions, at a minimum, seem unethically invasive to me.
Some people (like myself) look much younger than their age. Should I not drink my nightly glass of wine in front of open windows now, lest I invite cops to bust in to card me? Cops might have the discretion to do this without losing their badges, but there should be consequences when using such discretion for frivolous reasons.
Public trust and goodwill are not inexhaustible commodities.
Me too.
Or at least I did way longer than most.
I’m kinda reminded of people that get upset because they are middle aged guy driving a red pickup truck and get “interogated” by the cop because the cops were looking in the neighborhood for a “middle aged guy driving a red pickup truck” that just filled his gas tank without paying for it at the local 7-11.
Police thinking “looks like you might be breaking the law because that’s what it LOOKS like” NOT EQUAL TO “hey you jerk, we are going to nail your ass for breaking the law because that’s what it LOOKS like”.
Why people get butthurt over this is beyond me.
Because there should be a balance between enforcing the law and letting people live in dignified peace. Chasing down every single thing that looks potentially like a possible crime is an irresponsible use of police power. Minor, victimless crimes do not merit invasive and disruptive actions that, at a minimum, skim dangerously close to violating our civil liberties.
Why more people aren’t worried about how close we’re becoming a police state is beyond me.
I lived in a house for a while that had a detached workshop in the backyard, built by the owner who was a tinkerer. When the owner wanted to sell, he had a real-estate agent out looking at the property, and it was up to me to show him around the property. He was particularly interested in whether the workshop had plumbing, as that is apparently an important deciding factor in deciding if the workshop was a habitable dwelling.
Huh. Yeah, because a “pool house” might have a bathroom with a shower (so you can shower/change into a suit), a kitchen with a sink and a few cabinets (basically a bar), a couch with a TV, and that couch might be the kind that can turn into a bed so guests can sleep there. And AC from an integrated AC/heatpump, of course. Basically it would have everything a decent apartment in the third world would have.
There is no all-encompassing federal law for liquor consumption in the U.S. Even the minimum age of 21 is on a state-by-state basis, although it is tied in to federal highway grants. A state could lower its drinking age if it wanted to risk having its federal funds withheld. 50 states, 50 sets of liquor laws. As Procrustus pointed out, 29 states permit drinking by minors on private property with parental permission, although this doesn’t apply in Orwell’s case since he doesn’t live in one of those states.