JONIZZLE

hahaha. ok. heres a letter to my school editor about tonights events....yea....

I think the SIUE campus police has a major problem on their hands. They need to get their priorites straight.

Around 11:45 Friday night, I was leaving the UC after a wholesome night of ping-pong. Yes that's right, ping-pong, not parties and drinking it up on a Friday night, but ping-pong. So as we are walking to my friends car outside, he grabs an old wooden chair that was sitting outside of the UC. So yes, he brought it along with us and we put it in his trunk. We were driving back to Cougar Village and we decide to pull over on University Drive, put the chair in the grass median, and take a picture with the chair, just for fun. So we did, and then we went back to Cougar Village, leaving the chair in the median. We thought it would be funny if people drove by and saw a random wooden chair, maybe add a little spice to this school. But I guess thats a bad thing.

When we parked in Cougar, an undercover cop had seen everything and began questioning us as we got out of the car. He was on the phone with other officers, and two of them came. So now we have three police officers questioning three males for TAKING A CHAIR. AN OLD WOODEN CHAIR. Nah, lets forget about all of the underage drinking that the police knows goes around on this campus, but sure, lets go after three guys, who don't even drink, for simply moving a wooden chair. The police told us we had just commited a theft. But the chair was already outside, all we did was move it somewhere else outside while still ON CAMPUS. The cops said it was stealing because we "transported it from one place to another in (our) car." Uh...we moved it from outside, to somewhere else outside, which is still on campus, in plain sight, not off somewhere in the woods, unlike our Rock. Hey how about you work on that case instead? Rock filled with tradition or a single WOODEN CHAIR. Or maybe you should be working on that underage drinking, instead of requiring THREE policemen to question three guys on moving, I'm sorry for redundance, A WOODEN CHAIR. It is ridiculous that they needed that much manpower to question us for something so insignificant as...a single wooden chair.

The first two cops were nice guys, good cops. But when the third cop came up. He asked us to tell our story to him, and we did. His reaction? "That story is crap, you guys could at least come up with a better one." Um, ok. Hey Mr. Tough Policeman, how about you ask the other officer who witnessed the whole thing and see how close his story is to ours? Oh yes you would find out they are the exact same! But I digress. The other officers continue to question us in a good manner. But then at the end, the same third officer says "Wait, lets just go ahead and write them a ticket, I haven't wrote a single ticket all day." Whoa whoa whoa, so it is BAD to have a law-abiding campus where the police can't even give out tickets? I don't know, I would imagine the Dean would be proud to have a campus full of law-abiding students who do not commit actions worthy of tickets and citations (minus my friends and I of course, we crazy hooligans, who are all on the Dean's List I might add). Mr. Third Policeman should get his priorities straight, is it best that there would be no need to write tickets and to have a good, law-abiding campus, or to have the opposite where ticketable offenses are all around for the cop to write out?

As much as the police believes this was a stupid "prank", it wasn't. They even made fun of us for pulling "such a dumb prank, not even a good one." Oh dang, I guess I better go take the new Rock to get their respect right? Some of the cops really need to get with it. Don't be so hard on three good students if you're not going to be hard on others who do other activities that are much more illegal, possibly much more consequential, and much more common.

Sincerely,
Jonathan R. Lee
Sophomore

To the editor - The police confiscated my camera and they are going to print out the picture. its probably too dark, but just so you know, the police will be printing out a copy.


yea..............how ridiculous is that?!?!?!