Penn Break-In Scarier Than Previously Thought
So, the probably-psychotic Penn guy who tried to break into a classmate’s room while sputtering jibberish on the nature of “reality”? Rodin House residents are now saying the ordeal was even scarier and stranger than the DP reported. A Rodin resident with ties both to victims and attacker writes in,
He injured 3 police officers, smashed the glass of a fire extinguisher case and tried to fight them off with the shards. He [put up a] fight until the end, and they had to strap him to a guerney and carry him out because he wouldn’t leave. He punched 2 officers in the face, had one in a headlock and busted that one’s knee.
The student in question has since made bail, though nobody seems to know where he is or what he is doing. His parents were witnessed moving their son’s personal effects from his dorm yesterday. At press time, the conditions of the attacker’s bail (psychiatric care? restraining order?) and university status (leave of absence? expulsion?) are unknown.
Residents of the dorm room under siege have reportedly sought psychological guidance, probably because being attacked by a crazy person in your domicile is kind of disruptive to emotional wellbeing.
An esteemed commenter points us to the best part of the DP’s article on the break-in:
While also unsettled by the incident, one roommate said, “I don’t think I feel less safe now because Penn Police responded fairly quickly and it wasn’t an outside Philadelphia resident who somehow broke through security or anything.”
Had the attacker been a crackhead on the street or a student from Drake, it would have been far more catastrophic. The outside world has guns, and low SAT scores! And it’s that much harder to find your attacker’s Facebook profile when he’s outside your network.
University of Pennsylvania: Keeping crime in-house since, uh, this.
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March 27th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
WE NEED NAMES
March 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
lesson learned: Penn cops are probably slow and obese.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
is it just me or is penn becoming the scariest ivy inside and out? i am safe nowhere apparently. and yes, lets gets some names
March 31st, 2008 at 1:06 am
Drake is in Iowa. I’m assuming you meant Drexel? Why worry about Drexel when Penn is scary enough.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
yo niggaz, penn be for reeeeeeeeeeeeal huslas not for pussy ass book nerds. i is readn proust on ma corner WHILE selling crack