We had an armed robbery on our campus over the weekend. A man approached a student, pointed a gun at him, and robbed him. This must have been a pretty well-to-do criminal because he had to have driven a car to campus. Our campus is located in the middle of nowhere, and you have to walk for at least an hour and a half to get anywhere. The criminal couldn’t have taken the bus to campus because they don’t run so late and, besides, what kind of a robber is willing to stand on the bus-stop for an hour, waiting for a bus? Also, the criminal couldn’t have come from the student residences because they are also located very far.
Our students aren’t rich, so with the cash this criminal got from the student he robbed he probably hardly even broke even on the gas he wasted coming to campus.
There are some pretty stupid criminals out there.
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Exactly what I thought on receiving the text messages. It’s a weird situation.
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When robbing students I think the mugger would probably be looking for electronic items more than cash. Fancy phone, laptop/ipad, stuff like that.
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I think you are right because we were told the robber took a cell phone off the student.
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It is a lecturer sick of phones ringing during lectures
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and I am almost expecting the robber to show up here in the blog and start arguing and claiming you got some important detail wrong 🙂 🙂
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I am thinking of robbing students, so less of them have cell phones ringing during tutorials
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I suppose the robber might also have stolen the car? That would push the profit ratio up a bit. Not a lot, considering the low resale value of most electronic gimcrackery these days, but a bit.
Today, a student in supervisions was texting. If the lecturer hadn’t said something I think I would, because seriously… not paying attention in lectures: waste of your own time, so whatever *shrug*. Not paying attention in supervisions: wasting the whole group’s time. Grrrr.
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But how would the robber be able to escape in two cars?
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Perhaps he came in an old one and left in a newer one? 🙂
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Super detective Clarissa!
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