Hot flashgun
OCT. 17, 1:35 p.m. – A police officer doing rounds in Rafuse Lot E became alarmed after seeing a gun case on the passenger seat of a parked car. The officer waited, and a 59-year-old continuing-education student returned to the car. “They asked her if that was indeed a weapon in the vehicle and she said yes,” said Investigator Matthew C. Rossie, a spokesman for Binghamton’s New York State University Police. She said she had the gun for protection. The police confiscated a .38 caliber revolver because she didn’t have a government handgun permit. Even if she did, weapons are banned on campus. The woman was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor.
Colonel Mustard, in the dining hall, with the ketchup
OCT. 19, 8:00 a.m. – Someone squirted a bottle of ketchup on the stairwell in Mountainview’s Appalachian Dining Hall. There were no witnesses to the actual spraying, but officers recovered one ketchup bottle near the scene, Investigator Rossie said.
While you were breathing
OCT. 3:02 a.m. – Harpur’s Ferry ambulance transported an intoxicated male student from a social lounge of College-in-the-Woods’ Onondaga Hall to the hospital because while he was breathing, he was unresponsive to stimulus. “He was just passed out,” Investigator Rossie said. A friend of the student’s said he was celebrating his 19th birthday by drinking off campus.
Poop smear
OCT. 20 – An unknown defecator smeared what appeared to be fecal matter on the walls near a sink and the toilet stall, prompting a Bingham Hall resident assistant to alert the police to the matter. Officers based their assessment on the smell and brownish nature of the substance, Investigator Rossie said. The police have no suspects.
Art attack
OCT. 21, 6:20 p.m. – People in the Fine Arts Building complained that an intoxicated, elderly man was sleeping on a bench. Officers saw the 62-year-old staggering around and asked him if he had any University business. He told them he’d been dropped off by his friend and was waiting to be picked up. As officers were telling the man he couldn’t wait in the building, his friend walked by and picked him up. No charges were filed.
Ouch
OCT. 22, 3:32 a.m. – Two University police officers went to downtown Binghamton to help the city police clear the crowd in front of Ra’Nelles Night Club and Restaurant at 73 Court St. after five people were shot. The city police have no suspects yet, and the five victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
You only get one shot — or five
OCT. 22, 11:00 p.m. – A simple wrong-number phone call escalated into a 17-hour campaign of vulgar and abusive phone calls in Newing’s Broome Hall. The initial phone call started at 10 p.m. when a caller the Broome resident didn’t know asked for someone with a female name. The resident said that person doesn’t live at the number, angering the caller, who then called at least 12 more times. Neither the police nor the Broome resident know who might be calling.
While men can jump
OCT. 23, 1:47 a.m. – A 19-year-old white male wandering Newing Lot S early Sunday morning attracted the attention of a campus police officer who was looking for someone connected to an accident on the Vestal Parkway. The officer grew suspicious because the person was caked in dirt and wasn’t wearing a coat. While it turned out the student, 19, had nothing to do with the accident, he said he had been jumped by two white males during a stroll on campus. He couldn’t describe the males and he declined medical attention. But while the officers were asking the student for ID, the student allegedly gave them a chalked license, making him appear to be 22. He was given both an appearance ticket to Vestal Town Court for possessing an altered driver’s license and a ride back to his Roosevelt Hall dorm. The police looked for the two suspicious white males, but they couldn’t find them.
Two liters to freedom
OCT. 23, 11:30 p.m. – Dorm staff called the police after they smelled marijuana smoke on the second floor of Newing’s Delaware Hall. They knocked and the officers entered the suspicious room. After they saw a small baggie with a green leafy substance on a table next to a bed, according to Investigator Rossie, the students voluntarily gave the police baggies containing more leafy substances and “smoked blunts,” as well as a red bong and a homemade bong the student had fashioned out of a two-liter soda bottle. One of the students in the room, 19, took official responsibility for the drugs and paraphernalia and he was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana. He will appear in Vestal Town Court soon.