SORE LOSER
Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responded to a call at 1:40 a.m. on Oct. 12 reporting that someone had broken a window at 123 Packard Ave., the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house. When officers arrived, the suspect, a Tufts student, was walking away with a female companion.
Officers approached the individual and asked him what happened. He told them that he had been with a group of friends and they had all gotten into the party except for him, according to TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy.
According to the student, he started knocking on the door, but pounded too hard and broke a window. The student said that he would take responsibility and pay for the damage.
LAZY SUNDAY
TUPD officers responded to a fire alarm at 3:28 a.m. on Oct. 12 at Latin Way. The alarm went off because of steam from a shower, but officers had trouble resetting the alarm due to a problematic smoke detector.
The officers went into the room where the detector is located and found an indivual sleeping on the floor. The smoke detector had been removed from the ceiling.
The individual told officers that he had removed the detector because it was too loud and he could not sleep. He was written up and a report was sent to the dean's office for failure to leave a building during a fire alarm.
NO CANDLES, PLS - NO RLY
A TUPD officer heard a fire alarm going off at 12:18 a.m. on Monday in the Hillside Apartments. Students exiting the building told the officer, who had been called in for emergency duty because of this weekend's blackout, that there was a fire inside. TUPD officers responded along with the Medford Fire Department.
A student had lit a candle, which fell onto a t-shirt and ignited it. The student put out the small fire and tossed the shirt into his hamper, but the fire reignited and spread to the hamper.
The student gave a TUPD officer his key, and the officer retrieved the hamper and brought it outside. No damage had been done to the room, but the apartment had filled with smoke. The Medford Fire Department pumped fresh air inside.
