14 hours, eight minutes, whatever: Just don't leave your laptop alone
A Lewis Hall resident reported to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) that the resident's laptop was stolen at some point between 12:15 p.m. on April 14 and 2 a.m. on April 15. The student left the laptop unattended in the common area of a private apartment in Lewis Hall. Upon returning at 2 a.m. the student realized that the laptop was missing. The laptop has not been found.
A Bush Hall resident had been doing his laundry and working on his laptop in the laundry room when he left to grab something at 2:50 a.m. on April 16. He returned eight minutes later to find that his laptop had been stolen. Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Sgt. Robert McCarthy said that laptops stolen on campus are "very rarely" recovered. "We try and tell people just not to leave them out," he said.
We all just want to know, why the heck were you smoking a cigar?
TUPD officers were dispatched to Richardson House after receiving a report of someone possibly smoking marijuana on the third floor at 9:37 p.m. on April 16. When they arrived they smelled something burning, but it clearly was not marijuana. When the officers were allowed into the room from which the smell emanated, they questioned the student inside. She "said she was smoking a small cigar because she was stressed," McCarthy said. Smoking of any kind is prohibited in on-campus housing, so a report was generated and sent to the the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.
Faculty soaked with mystery water balloon that came raining out of the sky above Zeta Psi
TUPD was dispatched at 12:30 p.m. on April 15 to the Zeta Psi fraternity at 80 Professors Row. A Tufts staff member had been struck by a water balloon while standing next to Zeta Psi. The staffer then called the police. When TUPD arrived there was one student on the roof. They asked him to come down, and he did. He told TUPD that he had been up on the roof for a little while but didn't throw any balloons and knew nothing about the staff member being hit.
We're TMC, you just cannot mess with our tents...
TUPD received a request at 2:53 a.m. on April 17 to go to the rear of East Hall, near the fifth floor of the Dowling Hall parking garage. TUPD officers met a student there who said someone had broken his tent and then fled to the area near the garage. The student was a member of Tufts Mountain Club (TMC), and he reported that he had been painting the cannon and camping out with TMC when members of the Theta Chi fraternity arrived, throwing balloons at the TMC members and at the cannon. He said the tent was worth about $200.
The TMC member reported that the Theta Chi member who broke the tent was dressed in all black. The fraternity brother had started shaking the tent; this broke it. TUPD officers caught the Theta Chi member dressed in black shortly after the incident and stopped him. He then admitted that Theta Chi brothers had come to the cannon to paint it, and when they saw that the TMC members were there, they had decided to "mess with them in a friendly manner." He told the officer he had not realized the tent was broken and agreed to reimburse TMC for the value of the tent.
