From today's Campus Watch crime report:
Criminal Trespass / Evading (Peter T. Flawn Academic Center, #2 West Mall)
A UT guard observed a non-UT subject in the basement of the building. The guard knew the subject had previously been issued a written criminal trespass warning. A police officer was summoned to the area. As the police officer approached the non-UT subject, the subject pushed a chair "into the path" of the police officer and fled on foot. The subject was pursued to the 2300 block of Guadalupe Street where the subject sought refuge by climbing to the roof of a business. The subject was apprehended at that location. Occurred on 3-10-05 at 4:29 AM.
I always laugh when I see someone on TV running away from another person and they start running up stairs or climbing up a fire escape or whatever. It seems so preposterous that the person being pursued thinks an escape upward is somehow possible. Are they expecting a passing helicopter to drop a rope ladder down to them? I understand if you're running from a dog or something, that jumping up on something or climbing a tree or some such might work. You can either wait until help comes or the dog gets distracted. But, if you're running from another person, all they have to do is wait for you to come back down. But, it looks like those TV shows aren't so far-fetched after all. Here's evidence that people really are just exactly that dumb. Wow.
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