Tobeck and her husband were puzzled to receive a visit from two police officers on Sunday, talking about a complaint of a "party on their property". It was only after a little while that "the penny dropped" and they realised the officers had to be referring to their Zoom party on Saturday, when they joined a video call to celebrate their niece's 17th birthday. The call included her grandmother, her mother, and a couple of other aunties as well," Tobeck told The New Zealand Herald. We must have been on this Zoom call for a quarter of an hour all up. Tobeck says her husband had trouble understanding the police officers through their masks but they left after he explained the two had joined a Zoom party and sang happy birthday to their niece the day before.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 20, 2021 20:37 UTC