best of crime log
    -Fall `97 
    There have been 17 indecent exposures, men wearing underwear on their heads and other indecent acts reported in the Crime Log. Even trash has made the news this semester -- there were six incidents involving trash bins. Four people called the UTPD this semester thinking their cars had been stolen, only to find out they were parked elsewhere.

    THURSDAY, AUG. 14
    *A student reported seeing two UT employees in a blue UT van go into Sam's Party Store on 15th Street and buy an undetermined amount of beer. The employees reportedly drank about two beers each and drove off, still in the UT van.

    FRIDAY, AUG. 15
    *KPD reported a complaint of a male taking off his clothes on the Cumberland footbridge.

    * Complainant reported a male in an alley at the Taliwa Court Apartments exposed himself. The suspect was wearing a towel on his head, purple shorts, a tank top and glasses.

    * A student reported some people acting belligerent at a basketball court on Sutherland Avenue. One of the individuals pulled down his pants.

    MONDAY, AUG. 18
    * A student at Reese Hall found a hammer with a cup wrapped around the handle.

    SATURDAY, AUG. 23
    * An officer reported he had to warn two females at the Veterinary College to stay out of the building. The individuals were trying to protest a goat meeting.

    MONDAY, AUG. 25
    * A very drunk male was wearing a hat backwards.

    TUESDAY, AUG. 26
    * A staff member reported that an individual was sawing fence posts in two near Hoskins Library.

    MONDAY, SEPT. 1
    * A student reported some people were hanging from trees at 13th Street and White Avenue. An officer responded and advised the people to stop hanging from trees.

    TUESDAY, SEPT. 2
    *A staff member reported that a truck had backed into a light post at Greve Circle and knocked it down.

    MONDAY, SEPT. 8
    * KPD dispatch advised that eight cows had escaped from the UT dairy farm and were headed southbound on Alcoa Highway. Officers and dairy farm personnel rounded up the cattle.

    * A staff member reported there was a male, possibly nude, in the bushes outside Morgan Hall.

    WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10
    * A staff member reported two people playing with fireworks in Circle Park. Officers contacted the individuals and warned them about fireworks laws in Knox County.

    MONDAY, SEPT. 22
    * A student reported she could not find her vehicle in the G-10 garage and thought it might be stolen. An officer helped the student find her vehicle.

    TUESDAY, SEPT. 23
    * A student reported half of her carpet was taken.

    WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24
    * The assistant hall director at Clement Hall reported confiscating a substance he thought was marijuana and wanted an officer to test it.

    SUNDAY, SEPT. 28
    * A student's mother drove up from Atlanta after the phone line had been disconnected during a conversation with her son. She requested an officer meet her at the son's residence.

    THURSDAY, NOV. 6
    * Someone hit the porch on a house at 1819 Andy Holt Ave. The complainant thought the porch would have to be torn down.

    FRIDAY, OCT. 10
    * A resident assistant at Reese Hall reported that an unknown male had come into the lobby with a cooler of beer, dropped it and left. The beer was taken to the UTPD and disposed of.

    SATURDAY, OCT. 11
    * Toilets in Hess and Morrill Halls were continuously flushing.

    SUNDAY, OCT. 19
    * A student reported there was a "rambunctious unnecessary means of communication occurring" in Presidential Court.

    SATURDAY, OCT. 25
    * A Knox County Sheriff's officer reported a minor incident between two women at Thompson-Boling Arena which had resulted in a Coca-Cola being thrown and one woman insisting on transport to the hospital.

    SUNDAY, OCT. 26
    * Various items were found at Thompson-Boling Arena, including a Barney cap, contact lenses and a baby diaper bag.

    FRIDAY, OCT. 31
    * The steam from a student who was showering set off a fire alarm at the Apartment Residence Hall.

    TUESDAY, NOV. 11
    * A student reported a dark vehicle parked on the grass between Humanities and Clarence Brown Theatre. An officer found the vehicle to be part of an art display from Art and Architecture.

    SUNDAY, NOV. 16
    * A garbage can was on fire at Hess Hall. Staff workers took the can outside.

    MONDAY, NOV. 17
    * A man was running around Presidential Courtyard with a pair of underwear on his head.

    SATURDAY, NOV. 22
    * A student at Morrill Hall reported that a man in the stairwell was masturbating out of a window from the seventh floor.

    SUNDAY, DEC. 7
    * Some students were setting fire to some toilet paper at Presidential Court.

    FROM THE DECEMBER 11, 1997 ISSUE
    © 1997, The Daily Beacon. All rights reserved.
    JASON M. REYNOLDS, JEREMY LANGLOIS, SCOTT LIVINGOOD, & MATT CURRIN
    Police Editor & Staff
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