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Many years ago I lived in an apartment and the couple below me were always very loud. They argued a lot, but they also talked loud, listened to the TV loud etc so I never really thought about.
One night about 1am the guy comes home drunk as hell and is pounding on the door. He is pissed, screaming at her to let him in and literally falling down drunk. I called the police and when they arrived the guy said he wasn't pissed, his girlfriend was just sleeping and can't hear him knocking (he was knocking so loud and screaming so loud he actually woke the deaf girl that lived next to me up). The police used a cell phone and called her and that woke her up and everything seemed fine. They suggested he get a second key made, which he told them he couldn't afford (although he could afford going to the bar to get drunk).
About a week later it happened again. This time I let him use my phone. He called her, she woke up and all was fine. About two weeks later I came home late and found him pounding on the door. I offered to let him use my phone to call and wake her up. The next day I drove him down the street to a hardware store and paid to have a duplicate key made. He was happy I did so.
About a week after this he came home drunk again, used the key I had bought him to get into the house and proceeded to beat the shirt out of her. To this day I still feel a little bit of guilt over that.
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