FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 9:03 a.m. — Someone reportedly used a magic marker to write on the hood of a BU staffer’s car while it was left in the parking garage. What was written was unclear: “It was probably just squiggles,” Investigator Matt Rossie, of Binghamton’s New York State University Police, said. There was no security camera to capture the event. Police have no suspects.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 10:50 a.m. — An 18-year-old female resident of Dickinson’s Digman Hall reported to the police that she was receiving harassing telephone calls. A police report said she had received hang up calls both during the daytime and at night, and that once she had been rung by Pizza Hut: evidently the prankster had used her telephone number to order the food. Police are investigating.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 6:28 a.m. — A cabbie phoned police to report what appeared to be a couple in a heated argument in front of Dickinson’s Lot T. Officers responded; the two, an 18-year-old man and a woman of unknown age, were, in fact, fighting, but there had only been heated words — no physical contact. Neither of the two were BU students; rather, they were guests of a Newing resident. Officers advised them to stay away from each other and left.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 17, midnight — A resident assistant in Newing College’s Bingham Hall reported smelling burning marijuana coming from inside a dorm room. Officers arrived and knocked on the door. When an 18-year-old man opened it, they asked him to turn over the remaining marijuana and the device that had been used to smoke it. He cooperated, handing over an unknown amount of pot and a glass pipe. He was referred to the campus judicial system.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 17, 2:38 a.m. — A cab driver called police after a passenger skipped out on the bill near the Seneca Hall service drive in College-in-the-Woods. The amount she owed: $3. The cabbie described the fare-skipper as a female, 5-foot-4 and of slim build, wearing jeans and a green T-shirt. She remains on the loose.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 17, 10:15 a.m. — Officers discovered someone had vandalized a number of signs in the Dickinson Dining Hall parking lot. The “Reserved for Faculty Master” sign had been twisted out of place and a “State and service vehicles only” sign had been removed from the ground. A nearby wooden park bench had been flipped over and a sign in Lot T had been twisted, as well. Police have no suspects.
MONDAY, SEPT. 18, 6:43 p.m. — A BU staffer reported that his car had suffered hit-and-run damage while it had been left in Lot F; the front driver’s-side fender of the 2007 BMW 325i had apparently been hit. Police have no suspects.
MONDAY, SEPT. 18, 9:58 p.m. — A 20-year-old male student reported that a bag he had left in an East Gym locker had been stolen. The bag contained between $500 and $600 worth of property, including an iPod, lab kits and textbooks. The locker, located in the daily-use section of the men’s locker room, was unlocked. Police have no suspects.