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My next project will be to write tales based on these types of small college town news stories. How sad is it, to be that young and acting up that bad and causing building structure to fall apart. ::sigh:: Why, oh why did I never have such a freshman college experience? My favorite feature is how cute the report is: the vagueness of the offenses, so pias. She "made vulgar statements" and "stuck her middle finger at them".

Student attempts escape from hospital
Freshman had .30 BAC, arrested on multiple charges
By Kristi Oloffson | Indiana Daily Student | Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The IU Police Department arrested an intoxicated female student Saturday morning after she attempted to escape through a bathroom ceiling in Bloomington Hospital, according to an IUPD report. The student was transported there after police responded to a call that she was unconscious in a Briscoe Quad dorm room from overconsumption of alcohol, said IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger, reading from the report.

The freshman, a 19-year-old resident of McNutt-Delgado, began vomiting before the ambulance arrived to take her to the hospital, Minger said.

Her blood alcohol content was above 0.30, he said. Her BAC was taken at the hospital, said IUPD Sgt. Don Schmuhl.

The woman "became belligerent by being loud and cursing at the EMTs," when they arrived at the emergency room of the hospital, Minger said, reading from the report.

The emergency room personnel allowed the woman to use the restroom, and an ER technician waited outside the door for her, Minger said. When she did not come out or respond to knocking, the technician entered the room to find the woman making an attempt to climb into the ceiling, he said.

The ceiling hangers, which hold the ceiling tiles in place, then collapsed, causing half of the bathroom ceiling to fall in on the technician and the woman, Minger said. The student then began cursing and made vulgar statements to the hospital staff and stuck out her middle finger at them, Minger said. The estimated damage to the room was several hundred dollars but no one was injured in the fall, he said.

After the woman was treated and released, police told her she was under arrest for illegal consumption and criminal mischief, Minger said. She was transported to Monroe County jail where she was released Saturday afternoon upon her own recognizance, said officer Jeremy Sender of the Monroe County jail.

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I'd like it if the woman above was the one who caused this, but... I guess even Asian people in the Mid-West can't drive either. (But then again, Kilroy's is such a frat-boy-ish hangout -- I've seen screaming drunken men standing at the entrance, fondling their girlfriends' breasts, and yelling obnoxiously at passing cars -- I'm not convinced this was not divine intervention.)


Student struck by automobile outside Kilroy's Sports Bar

By Michael Reschke | Indiana Daily Student | Monday, November 13, 2006

An IU student was injured after being struck by an automobile near Kilroy's Sports Bar early Saturday morning.

As of Sunday afternoon, Jina Yang, 21, a resident of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, had been released from Bloomington Hospital after being treated for injuries from the accident.

At about 2:50 a.m. Saturday, Yang and another pedestrian were crossing North Walnut Street. The other pedestrian jogged and made it across the street, but Yang walked directly in front of a vehicle that was heading north in the right lane, said Bloomington Police Department Lt. Janelle Benedict, reading from a police report. The driver of the vehicle, Emily Young, 20, said she slammed on her brakes in an attempt to avoid hitting Yang.

Yang was lying on the pavement and appeared to be bleeding from the head when officers arrived, Benedict said. She was treated at the scene and taken to Bloomington Hospital for further treatment.

Young was arrested on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, causing serious bodily injury, a class D felony, and illegal consumption, a class C misdemeanor.