According to Peggy A. McNamara, HUPD spokesperson, the Lampoon's attitude toward city officers has not been helpful.
She said that the Lampoon has continually shown an "arrogant response to police, fire, and the community."
"We have no sympathy for an organization that consistently fails to bring its building up to fire code," McNamara said.
Several current Lampoon members, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, defended their organization's conduct.
"It's been a problem with our alarm system, which has been fixed. It totally wasn't our fault," said one.
Hely declined comment last night except to confirm that a new alarm panel had been installed yesterday.
A Lampoon member who answered the castle door last night said the problems were caused by a rift between the Lampoon and CFD.
"We're going through some tough times in our personal relationship," he said.
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