Word: robber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Incident: Tackled would-be robber in his dorm room in Thayer...
...they were somebody's "old kicks.") At the bottom of the barrel, Stevens found Gibson's backpack with his TI-86 calculator and history of the USSR notebook. Stevens' Harvard I.D., his debit card and all his cash--about $20--were taken from his wallet. Why didn't the robber also take Gibson's calculator? Gibson theorizes that the burglar didn't take his calculator, or the three laptops, or Stevens's stereo or television, all in the common room, because the robber "didn't want to hassle with [selling] or anything. He just wanted totally liquid stuff...
...next day it was raining. When Rubin went to get his rain shoes, he saw they were missing. He remembered he had left them by the door to dry. Says Rubin, "We think the robber has a size 11 shoe." For Stevens, "The real pain was having to get the new I.D. card. [The I.D. people told me] I had to have the police report with me, so I had to walk out to HUPD, which is all the way out near the Quad" in the rain. Stevens' troubles continued once he reached the station. "My name was misspelled...
...robber goes, the three roommates are more curious than angry, and are glad to hear that the police have arrested their chief suspect, Andre Stuckey, 20. Still, they wouldn't mind a little payback. As Rubin says, "I hope, by some twist of fate, that the robber who did this has to face the Fly-Bys in an intramural Ultimate competition. We'll take him down...
...Incident: Tackled robber trying to escape with woman's wallet...