Ahhh, undergraduate student stupidity. Here's another example, told to me moments ago by one of my office's student employees. File this one under "Plans Gone Awry" ... Over the weekend, two members of a campus fraternity decided it would be a good idea to steal a fellow frat brother's car. The act would be undertaken for no other reason than to cause great panic in said car-owner, because apparently, making one's friend think that he has fallen victim to automobile thieves is very funny. Under cover of darkness, the two morons found their friend's spare set of keys, got in the car, and started it. The car's owner heard the engine start from inside the fraternity house, looked out the window, and noticed his vehicle rapidly leaving the premises. Making the (logical) deduction that a robbery was taking place at his expense, he summoned authorities. By the time Morons 1 & 2 had arrived on the opposite side of campus, there were six police cars' worth of Cleveland Police waiting for them with guns drawn. The cops, for some reason, were not terribly entertained when the Morons explained that "no, no, see ... this was all a big joke! Ha! Ha!" To make matters worse, one police officer had driven over a median strip en route to the scene, which yielded considerable damage to the cruiser's tires. The car's owner dropped all the charges, but the police charged the Morons with some sort of criminal damaging thing.
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