University Logic (oxymoron)
Here’s something that happens on a daily basis that shows the complete ineptitude and lack of planning by the university police force.
Every day, I park in the same lot, though I usually don’t park in the same row. For some unexplainable reason, at 6 o’clock (I think every day) the police take there yellow barriers and completely block off the front row of the parking lot.
Now, obviously not everyone has left the parking lot at 6 o’clock, so someone invariably removes one of the barrier in order to drive home. The barrier is never replaced, so one end of the row is left opened anyway.
So regardless of the [il]logic of putting the barriers up in the first place, they serve no purpose except to block people from leaving the parking lot. Once the barrier is moved, people can come and go as the please anyway.
No doubt this is one of the new ’safety measures’ the university has taken from protecting us from the recent string of burglars, assaulters, credit stealers and alleged gunmen that have been plaguing the campus. I feel safer already.
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March 13th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
One thing I’ve learned through the years is that, in addition to actions significantly lacking in thought, many campus police also suffer from inferiority complexes.
How many students which they “police” ultimately wind up becoming police themselves? The answer is next to nil.
Just go with it a laugh. A little vandelism of the innocuous yellow barriers can be an enormous stress relief… granted, said officers don’t catch and prosecute you.
Maybe hang up photoshopped pictures of the chief of police in a bra eating a cucumber on each of the barriers… then you even get the “beat cops” on your side since they share your loathing of the hierarchy’s idiocy.
Hell… it’s just about St. Patrick’s day… paint them green with a logo, “I am the bastard child of the Jolly Green Giant.”
I miss the days when such fun trivialities were of concern. Enjoy it while you can, and try to get away with as much mischief as possible before it impacts your ability to succeed in life.
:-)