Hey, quick question.

[conuly]

Is it possible for somebody to casually just, like, pick up your cell phone signals? So if, say, you call a noise complaint on them *two minutes* before they shut up and send their friends home and go inside, and they do this *every time* no matter if you call at 11 or at 3, could it be more than a really weird coincidence?

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[redbird]

Thin walls and/or baby monitors both seem possible. One possible test, at least for the thin walls: find a friend who would be willing to pretend to be 311 when you called, and instead of calling the city, go through the same noise complaint routine you would with them, and see if the noise stops.

That would be less likely to work if they're somehow listening in on the whole call, unless your friend answered with the 311 standard recorded message. But it seems more likely that they'd overhear you through the walls than that, in the middle of a party, they'd be listening to any more complicated spy device. (If they have a baby monitor, it's likely to be on all the time, though.)