Jen Noel
Staff Reporter
Epic movies inspire the hero in all of us. Most of us leave our dreams of becoming a superhero like Batman to a blockbuster Halloween costume.
However, one student does not need an excuse like a silly costume to express his heroic desires. The villains on campus better beware ?Spiderman has arrived.
On October 13, at 11:20 p.m., Campus Safety identified a student scaling an exterior wall of McDaniel Hall. When confronted by the officer demanding the student to come down, the culprit moved quickly into a second floor window. After officers found the student, he admitted to climbing the wall saying, “I am an experienced boulder climber.” Well in that case, by all means scale all the buildings you want.
Once again, Rouzer made the largest impression on the blotter. Apparently, the first year gentlemen lost the love of holidays when they arrived at college. Perhaps memories of an elephant costume gone awry or a bad Milkdud in their Halloween bucket spurred two male students to go on a decoration destruction rampage.
On October 24, at 1:45 a.m. the culprits were caught red-handed demolishing festive decorations in their building. However, since then all skeletons have been returned to their rightful places.
There was no disguising, however, the mail van’s encounter with the Westminster police. On October 20, at 1:45 p.m., the McDaniel College mail van must have had a rush delivery as they couldn’t take the time to miss side swiping a WPD cruiser. I think most of us try to avoid getting up close and personal with the police, but no matter what-rain, sleet, citation-the mail must be delivered.
Most readers skim over the editor’s note introducing this column; however, some blotter incidents are simply what the note states?inane. This is the only word to explain the events of October 16. Two students set off a hand-made Gatorade bomb in the Rouzer parking lot. There is never a time when this use of brain power is a good idea; luckily no one was hurt by this illogical scenario.
All of you posing as armored knights this Halloween need to keep the costume handy because the boulder bandit has struck again. On October 7, reports were filed that rocks were, for the second time, flying from the windows of Rouzer. Maybe Campus Safety needs call on our very own Spiderman to help them smoke out the culprit.
My words of advice for all of you this week: be careful, this time of year usually brings more tricks than treats?you never know who is about to cause some trouble.