It's not A-Okay
Tufts University Police Dep-artment (TUPD) officers responded to a call at 3:28 a.m. on Nov. 8 from the Somerville Police Department requesting assistance in handling an intoxicated student on Upland Street. When TUPD officers arrived, Somerville police officers were there with workers from the Somerville Fire Department and from Cataldo Ambulance Service, Inc.
The student was sitting in a chair on the front porch of a Somerville house. He had woken up the residents by banging on the windows, and when they would not let him in the house, he took a seat. "The only thing he could say was, ‘A-Okay, chief,'" TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy told the Daily.
The individual could not provide officers with his correct address and was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. At 5:02 a.m., TUPD officers were called to the emergency room because the student was exhibiting obnoxious and violent behavior, McCarthy said. The officers threatened to arrest the individual, but he was eventually released from the hospital.
Running robber
Officers responded to a call at 12:51 a.m. on Nov. 10 at 14 Sawyer Ave. A resident reported that she had observed a man trying to enter the house through an unsecured bathroom window. When the man saw her, he fled down the fire escape. Officers searched the area, but did not find anyone.
Turkey drove her wild
TUPD received a call at 12:37 a.m. on Nov. 11 because a student was feeling ill in South Hall. When officers arrived at the room in question, they found the individual sitting on the floor with a waste basket in front of her.
She told officers she had consumed an unknown amount of an unknown liquid. "It was something called turkey and it tasted foul," McCarthy said.
TMC's Dowling pumpkin plot thwarted!
Officers observed an individual in the process of climbing up a cable hanging down the side of the smokestack outside of Dowling Hall at 3:24 a.m. on Nov. 11.
Three other individuals were holding the cable steady for him. Officers approached them, and one admitted to being a member of the Tufts Mountain Club.
A pumpkin was sitting on the ground and another individual had an additional pumpkin in his backpack. He stated his intent to climb to the top of the smokestack and place the pumpkin there, according to McCarthy.
All the individuals were written up.
