Woman Calls Cops on Man for Whistling ‘Closing Time’ too Loudly

"Closing time / Open all the doors and let you out into the world"

So begins one of the most recognizable songs from the late 90s.

"Closing Time" from Semisonic is everywhere. You can't escape it in shitty dive bars, Karaoke booths, or the sad bachelor apartment of a writer who just moved to Toronto for a job and has no friends here.

The song is so ubiquitous that it's not surprising some (ok most) people get annoyed by it.

That's exactly what happened in Oregon earlier this month when some dude, assuredly in the throes of a mid-life crisis, wouldn't stop whistling the bars to the Grammy-nominated track near a driveway.

The woman who owns said driveway wasn't having any of the song that reached number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. She told the fanboy to "Shut up" and, according to the police log published on Oregon Live, a "verbal altercation occurred."

"It's not clear if the caller would have been more or less upset if it was a different genre or whether it was just the talent lacking in the whistling," Captain Mike Herb of the Forest Grove Police Department told TIME.

The mysterious whistler was long gone but cops did catch up to him and he was apparently still whistling the tune that was named the 1999 song of the year by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. After finishing his quick chat with the cops, he went on his merry way, still whistling.

At the moment it's still unknown if the man knew who he wanted to take him home, but as a wise man once said:

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end…"

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