best of crime log- a tribute to the university of tennessee's crime log

Welcome to Planet Footey's dedication to the best of crime log....for those of you unfamiliar with the University of Tennessee's crime log.....let me be the first to introduce you to the often very strange and humorous complaints on the UT campus. The crime log is printed daily in University of Tennessee student newspaper, The Daily Beacon. While the primary purpose of the campus crime log is to inform students of crime statistics for the large UT campus, it also serves to highlight just how weird the Knoxville campus really is. Due to the popularity of the crime log with UT students, the Daily Beacon staff picks out the best entries each semester and delivers them in the best of the crime log. Printed below are just a small offering of the complaints of the last few years......and links to the best of crime log sorted by semester.

Summer 1994

Spring 2000

Date Unknown - If you happen to know the date for this one...please let me know.

Oct. 30, 1995 - The day I accidentally made the crime log.

As a special feature at Planet Footey, I have been keeping tabs of the crime log and have compilled my own best of crime log list:

Summer 2000

Other Crime Log Sites:

Marv Albert says "Take a bite out of crime!

Crime Log is compiled from records at the UT and Knoxville Police departments. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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.

An intoxicated dog was reported lying in the breezeway of North Carrick Hall.

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.

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 student reported a dark vehicle parked on the grass between Humanities and Clarence Brown Theater. An officer found the vehicle to be part of an art display from Art and Architecture.

Complainant advised there was an individual dressed up as Gumby rollerblading in Presidential Courtyard causing a disturbance.

Complainant reported to the UTPD that someone had exposed himself or herself at Humanities. (This one prompted a UT Zoology Department head to write a letter to the editor to the Beacon requesting that all UT freshmen be required to take human anatomy...."himself or herself"....couldn't they tell the difference?)

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Last Updated
11/11/04