I’ve been waiting for these beats
Posted in Funnyon Sep 17, 2008
Ever since fall semester started, I’ve been waiting for a new police beat to be posted. While there are no jaw dropping stories, I did find one story slightly ammusing.
Sept. 12: A custodian reported screaming near the MCKB at 4 a.m. The screams were later discovered to have come from a female student sprayed by a sidewalk sprinkler.
I’m guessing there was more going on than a girl walking along and getting sprayed by a sprinkler, because most of the time, you see a sprinkler before walking through it, especially if you are walking along at 4am.
Then there was this story with which I have a question:
Sept. 11: BYU police received a phone call complaining of a band playing music too loudly at 10:30 p.m. in the Foreign Language Housing. The police arrived and the band was quiet.
Did the police arrive to find a quiet band? Or did the band quiet down when the police arrived? Perhaps the band was too loud and they quited down for the benefit of neighbors. Or, there could have been some cranky neighbors. If you are living in student housing, you have to realize that you are going to hear some noise. That is just student life. Just because you hear un-invited sounds doesn’t mean that it is too loud.
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4 Comments
Bruce
September 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I saw the sprinker one in the newspaper today and laughed.
Alishka
September 17th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
We were reading these this morning in the dance training room. Hilarious. My favorite one was the one about the “mysterious people at the construction zone” that ended up being construction workers. go figure.
Keenan Cummings
September 19th, 2008 at 1:56 am
I couldn’t find an email, so I will just post this right here. For a final project, I have started a blog that is meant to be an extension of the Daily Universe Reader’s Forum. I am trying to get the word out. I am working with some of the directors over at the paper and if this blog gets enough attention, they are considering implementing a redesign I worked on for a final project (http://www.flickr.com/photos/keenancummings/). Any way you could help get the word out to the BYU-iterested community would be great. Check out the blog at:
thedailydiscussion.com
and we are always looking for letters to the editor and op-e articles to post, so if you are interested, just let me know.
Thanks
Rebecca
September 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I like how BYU openly admits that they are “sidewalk sprinklers” not “lawn sprinklers.” Maybe they would be easier to avoid if they used them on the grass instead.