Søren:
This is a real life story, as experienced by a former colleague of mine at the museum in Copenhagen, back when the Police Museum was still an active police station:
Three police officers was staying at the police station, it was friday night, and they had the evening watch.
There were lots of activities going on during the evening and night in the precinct, so the officers had more than enough to do.
A couple of other police officers brought a small group of
very drunken guys in, throwing them in the slammer for the night.
Now, those rather intoxicated guys had a ball, they were singing and yelling and generally raising hell, driving the officers on the watch more or less mad with their noisy behaviour, because the office was located right next to the detention cells, making it impossible to concentrate enough to do paper work (- or any other kind of work!) for the cops.
When one of the officers had had more than enough of the "guest's" godawful loud singing and yelling, he went in and stood and looked at the cell doors for a little while, while his colleagues was watching and wondering just exactly
what he'd do to stop the noisy, irritating behaviour.
Then the officer yelled at the top of his lungs:
"Now that's ENOUGH with all that godawful noise and singing! If you guys don't SHUT UP, we'll throw you OUT of here!"
They shut up, being too drunk to actually realise
what the officer had told them!