Hi, recently my friends and I went camping (6 of us total) We ended up being next to a group of Boy Scouts and their moms. As we are young men, I went up to them with one of my friends and told them to please talk to us if we were bothering them or too loud. The lead mom enthusiastically said sure thing and she would let us know.

Later that night around 8:30 PM, we were sitting around the campfire and one of my friends was playing music on a speaker while we talking and drinking. The music on the speaker wasn’t too loud but could probably be heard in their camp. A good thing to note is we are a diverse group of guys while the area we were in did not have much diversity. All of a sudden, a sheriff shows up to our campsite with his flashlight and said we are being a bit loud. He did explain that quiet time is at 10:00 and that we look like we are having a good time, so he just reminded us to stay quiet at 10 and left.

My friends and I were understandably upset, as it was clear the neighbors did not come to us first and called the sheriff. We then turned up the music when he left until 10:00 and retired to our tents. The next morning, the Boy Scouts and moms had cleared out when they had been planning to be there for our whole stay.

While we did escalate a bit when the sheriff left, we thought it was very ignorant of them as we came to them first. We were also in a small town with a diverse crowd, so who knows what this sheriff could have done to us.

Edit: since people don’t seem to understand. Our campsite is away from the main loop of campers. The Boy Scouts were our ONLY neighbors. The sheriff would have had to park on the main loop and walk into our campsite. That and the Boy Scouts leaving lead us to conclude that the sheriff was called by them on us.