Seems like just about everyone has a video doorbell and/or other cameras monitoring their property. Took it for granted in my youth without even knowing it.
Bigger problem is mfs just spend the weekend braindead doomscrolling the internet and don’t even want to have parties.
Oh. Hi. That’s me, right now.
That and with the parents working from home, how often are they out of the house long enough to throw a party or even raid the alcohol cabinet?
Friend of mines teen daughter did something similar. She posted on Instagram that she was at home, bored, fml, and all that. Sadly, some of her friends posted from the party. With her tagged.
“OMG SHOTS WITH #STACY!!! BFF AND JDC!!!”
Like, pictures of her and everything. Her dad made her write 100 times, “I need better friends” as part of her punishment, lol.
When I had to write sentences in elementary school I learned a pro tip from my Dad. Tape 4 pencils together and write 4 lines at a time. Works great!
My dad did have cameras all over the house while I was in high school. But there weren’t any in my room so we could hang out in there. There also weren’t any in the bathroom so we could stash the alcohol in there and just pour it into cups.
Both of these required a parent not that dedicated to actually stopping his kids from partying though. But a parent sufficiently dedicated was always going to be able to find out somehow.
Did you have to, like, sneak people in through a window or something? Surely there were cameras at the normal entrances. Or were the number of guests not an issue, just the alcohol?
The latter for sure. And to be fair, my experience wasn’t identical to what the post was asking. It wasn’t so much a house party as it was having ~10 friends over. And my dad was often home, just already asleep. I definitely wouldn’t have tried to have a legitimate house party with the cameras around.
The kids actually figured out how to log in and disable the cameras or mute notifications and then delete memory 🥴
Maybe, just maybe, the issue is the parents not letting go and not accessibility to cameras.
Before cameras everyone had a window granny who reported everything happening in the neighborhood. And even then, parents knew what was happening. The goal was that kids would fear that the parents would discover something is amiss and clean after themselves.
Back when I was a teen, my folks would go away for a month and a half every summer and leave us kids behind (we were teenagers and didn’t want to go) and obviously we would throw parties. One year I had cleaned the house really well and thought there was no way they would know. My dad came home and that’s how I learned he keeps two cold beers in the fridge for when he gets home. And they were gone.
He wasn’t mad we threw parties, he wasn’t mad we were underage drinking, but he was mad his two cold getting-home beers had been drank and not replaced. And that’s how I found out my parents are humans who knew we were having parties and they didn’t care as long as we didn’t die or mess with their shit.
Let the kids have fun, what’s wrong with these parents?
Dog you’re not even getting started on how hard it is to be social as a kid/teen nowadays. Parents are spending so much more time with and around their kids too, because it’s necessary when kids can’t walk anywhere and have no skate parks or malls to go to anyway.
A neighbor would just tell on you. I got busted by random neighborhood parents skipping school or sneaking out.
You think this isn’t the main use case?
Parents but this shit and trick tend into thinking it’s about security from the outside. Adults know that was just a fringe possibility, it’s all about curbing house parties.
Now shut up before they see this.
Parents but this shit and trick tend into thinking
lolwut
Just unplug the router and no internet access. ;)
That doesn’t solve anything. Your neighbors have security cameras too. They can share then with your parents. Your parents can watch video from other cameras if the neighborhood is on the same brand/network.
This varies with location. Our nearest neighbors are just shy on a mile away. Their cameras aren’t much good.