Am I the only one that doesn’t understand the fuss? It was a misunderstanding. Why the hell would she go after this guy? He didn’t try to harm her, he just yelled at the wrong person to open the wrong door, and then tried to kick in the wrong door, or whatever.
Pretty clearly documented that he didn’t intend to enter her room.
And pressing charges and calling his parents? Are you effing serious?
“Drunken college kid does something stupid” is hardly news. That’s what college is for. Obviously, there are some kids that just shouldn’t drink- the “violent/drink until comatose/drink until sticking penis into an outlet is a good idea” types. But this kid clearly wasn’t that wasted- he found the right building and the right door, just not the right floor. Hell, I’ve done that sober.
No need to ruin his life. I doubt it would do Ninja much good, but a felony charge would probably do him a lot of bad.
These are eight to ten room (four or five up and four or five down) split-level dorms with no lobby. It’s not like getting out of the elevator on the wrong floor and going to the room that corresponds to one’s own in an identical layout. The upstairs and the downstairs have significantly different designs and access. On that campus, those who claim to be too drunk or whatever to know where they are, more usually are too drunk or whatever to remember why they shouldn’t be where they are. And, my suggestion that if one wishes to report a crime was for future reference. I don’t think this one merits a report to the police – if there was a misdemeanor Bein’ a Butthead law on the books, that whole town would be out by the side of the highway picking up trash. It’s an eccentric college in an eccentric town and that’s lovable, and the rules are applied a little differently in the town and at the college than they are elsewhere, and it mostly works. But, from time to time - -a few times a year, at least, at the school – either the “crime” or the “justice” goes in a screwy direction and some kind of awakening to some kind of norm of human interaction that transcends the admittedly picturesque region can be beneficial. Reminding freshmen (especially the summer freshmen) that their right to be stupid in the middle of the night ends where it interrupts my (the non-inclusive me at this late date) sleep – that’s an important part of the housebreaking process. And it shouldn’t be NinjaChick’s job to housebreak the freshmen.
I had this experience about half a dozen times at an apartment I used to live in. Scared me just as much each time. There’s just something indescribably creepy about someone trying to open your door. My boyfriend at the time bought me this really cool burglar proof bar thing. It fits up under the handle of the door and has a rubber stopper that you slide into the floor so that the door can’t be opened from the outside. Made me feel MUCH safer.
Don’t let other people make you feel foolish about this, or that you’re making a big deal out of nothing, this would be terrifying.
I mean FFS someone tried to force their way into your bedroom, anyone no matter what gender who be scared of that. Dude is going to get killed if he runs into the wrong person.
Don’t let other people make you feel foolish about not noticing this is a seven-year-old thread that a newbie opened just to post “Me too”. I might’ve missed that myself if I hadn’t noticed a post from Santo Rugger, and… fuck.
Everyone just assumes that normal behavior is to spend some portion of one’s college life roaring drunk, somewhat blameless for the consequences…
That isn’t the way it should be. I think that trying to break down someone’s door is not pardonable by reason of having been stupid enough to get drunk in the first place. The time for ‘college kids binge drink’, ‘college kids smoke weed’, etc. should have never started and now should be over. In the light of a later sober day, no kid really disagrees with this, but if there are no consequences? A night in jail, at least. Maybe a few.
I guess I just dont give a shit about him. I too have had the experience of some drunk idiot trying to come through my door in the middle of the night. It was his responsibility to get drunk.
Maybe if we called people every time on their stupid drunken antics we would have less of a problem. Maybe if we didn’t excuse it or think it was OK to be so drink you are falling down.
If she wants to just forget about it that’s fine too. But I don’t really care much about the guy who decided to drink until he was incoherent. I don’t excuse bad behavior because of alcohol.
No, one of those football game airhorns. Wake everybody up for the entire building. Also puts the fear of god into a person if you aim it directly at the gap in the door.
I noticed it almost immediately. The OP has since joined the military, and while she may indeed be living in a dorm-type facility, I had a difficult time imagining her NOT mentioning calling the guard on watch.
