[Mr. Blonde]

Last year near the end of january me and my two friends were in the dorms drinking, it was a saturday night in the snow so as some of you know the parties are pretty dull in the winter. We heard about this party and after having a few beers we decided to hit it up.

For those of you that go to ball state, we were drinking in the honors dorms, and the party was on rex street. So we crossed across behind the arena parking lot in the back, and went through the hole in the fence to get onto rex street. We went to the house, and it was empty. No party. However, my one friend, who we will call "Menny", spotted a street sign in the roof of the porch. He retrieved it quickly and found out it read "Van Dyke". We had to take it.

So we were messing around on this little stretch of dead end road for a while, snowboarding on the sign into bushes, etc. We also found a wooden platform with a cardboard cylinder on it, which we thought was a launcher for a small rocket. So being semi drunk, we decide to go out to kind of the main road, new york st., and put this thing in the middle of the road. We waited for a little while until a car came, and we were for sure he was going to run into it. He eventually saw it and screeched his brakes and slid off the side of the road. We started laughing hilariously and decided to get the fuck outta there.

Back through the hole in the fence, we were crossing the arena parking lot again. I was the most sober of the group, so i was kind of still in a semi-knowledgable state of mind. My one friend, "Passionfish" who wasnt in a state of good common sense, decided he wanted a sign too, and went up to a stop sign and tried to unscrew it with his hands, to no avail, obviously. While he was doing this, "Menny" went on the other side of the sign and smacked the stop sign with the sign he had, making a large noise and scaring the shit out of "Passionfish". At this point i'm looking around, and in one of the side lots i see a parked cop car. I then proceed to tell them to start walking, fast. While we are walking away i look behind to see that the cop has pulled out and has turned on his lights. RUN!!! I yell out, and we begin running around the circle of the arena to get back to the dorms. At some point i decide that there is no way i'm going to outrun the cop car, and duck into a little alcove that, when unlocked, leads into the arena. I hide behind a trash can, and the other two keep running. After a few seconds i see the cop car speed over the curb and grass to chase them, totally oblivious to me. "Passionfish" ducks into the next alcove, and "Menny" goes for the long haul and crosses the grass field to get back to the honors dorms. At this point there are at least 3 three cop cars in the area, all looking for us. "Menny" runs across McKinley, the main road through campus. and the honors dorms are right on the other side. A cop was chasing him on foot and he decided to give up, although later regrets it and wishes he would have kept running. They arrested him for evading arrest, and also underage drinking and took him downtown. The main reason the cops began chasing us in the first places is because they saw the sign in "Menny's" hand, and though we were trying to steal the stop sign too, and kept asking him "Where is the wrench?" Also, before they took him to jail, they took him back to teh house and made him give back the sign, which was obviously illegally obtained. Cops are such fucking retards.

By this time, i had already decided to get the hell outta dodge, and walk around the other side of the stadium to get back to lafollette, the dorm across from the honors dorms. I didnt know anybody had been caught yet. I get back to my dorm and tried to get ahold of them, and i couldn't. Fearing the worst, i went outside and snuck behind some trees over by the arena again, and saw my friend "Passionfish" walking away from some cop cars towards me. He didnt leave the alcove with the right timing, and eventually the cops found him and breathalized him. He just got a ticket for underage drinking. After this we found out "Menny" got taken to jail, and we were up until about 5 in the morning bailing him out. I was by far the luckiest of the group, and got away without any legal trouble at all.

[ February 25, 2004, 12:53 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]