best of crime log
    -Fall `94
    This is the semester's top ten list of humorous crime log entries. Entries that involved serious injuries or arrests were omitted because being arrested or seriously injured is seldom very funny.

    *10. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 3:50 a.m. a female had knocked out a male in a fist fight and was carrying him up the street from the Carousel at 15th Street and White Avenue.

    *9. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 11:05 p.m. that he was calling long distance when he had a premonition that someone was in trouble on the fifth floor of Andy Holt Tower, 1331 Circle Park.

    *8. Complainant reported to UTPD at 1:44 a.m. that a male was running around naked wearing only a monkey mask and throwing banana peels at Reese Hall. The responding officer confiscated the monkey mask.

    *7. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 12:22 a.m. that two white males exposed themselves to him and yelled "elephant trunks for sale" at Lake Avenue. Complainant stated that one of the males was extremely large.

    *6. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 9:09 a.m. that a clay sculpture had been reworked with a hammer or some other implement of destruction by an unknown aspiring artist of questionable talent at the Art & Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Blvd.

    *5. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 6:14 p.m that a black male in his 40s came up to him and said he was Wade Houston and he was looking for his basketball team at Mr. Gatti's parking lot, 1819 Lake Ave.

    *4. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 5:42 p.m. that a male and a female were smoking cigarettes, throwing rocks and yelling at people below while they were sitting on the second floor ledge in the rear of Andy Holt Apartments, 2117 Andy Holt Ave. The male was wearing a pair of black panty hose.

    *3. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 9:04 p.m. that a naked male was being duct-taped to a tree while several other males stood around him singing, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," at Presidential Courtyard, 1017 Francis Street.

    *2. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 1:30 a.m. that a male individual was running naked and screaming, "I am woman, hear me roar," on Andy Holt Avenue.

    *1. Complainant reported to the UTPD at 5:22 p.m. that a female and a Labrador Retriever were taking a bath in the Europa Fountain at McClung Tower, 1115 Volunteer Blvd.

     -original crime logs compiled by Brent M. Conklin and Bret Jessee

    FROM THE DECEMBER 8, 1994 ISSUE
    Copyright © 1994, The Daily Beacon. All rights reserved
    Bret Jessee
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