I got this e-mail this morning from Marist College Security:
At approximately 12:45AM this morning residents of an apartment in the Gartland Townhouses heard a knock on the door. One of the residents opened the door and two unknown white male subjects wearing dark sweats, black knit gloves, and sneakers entered the apartment. One subject was wearing an old style military gas mask, and the other was wearing a multicolored scarf to cover his face. They also were described as approximately 5'5" to 5'8" tall, one stocky and one thin. Both subjects proceeded to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and took food items from the refrigerator and then left the apartment. Neither of the subjects spoke very much during this incident.
Let me get this straight, they staged this huge "home invasion" scenario -- to raid the fridge?
This sounds like a fraternity prank gone horribly awry. Like there were two fratboys sitting aroung wondering who drank the last of the MGD, deciding "Hey! We're out of hot dogs, too... I bet someone in Gartland has some... I've got this crazy idea....."
Or somebody thought it would be fun to fabricate and report such a crime and are now laughing as the campus security sent out the email.
OK so back in the Richmond ghetto days...
I come home and my roommate is nervously pacing on the front porch. "Dude there's someone in the house. They're in the kitchen." Out comes my piece (I carried all the time down there). I creep through the long central hall, to the kitchen door.
THWACK, kick it open, rush into the kitchen.
There's 2 dudes in there. One is making a sandwitch. The other is smoking a joint.
I have them get down on the ground, go through the whole "are you armed" thing. They keep calling me 'officer' the whole time. I figure out they're unarmed, and in fact part of the homeless brigade that wanders around the area. They had cut through the alley and just tried the door for kicks. Whey they got in they just made a sandwitch.
I kicked them out. They thought I was a cop the whole time. I let him keep the sandwitch though.