They did WHAT in the dryer?

[hinakiba777]

As many of you know I live in residence during the school year. I'm also one of the Residence Desk people, so I deal with all the issues. Anyway, in January 2008 I was working the desk when a student came to inform me of an issue in the laundry room.

There is always a problem in the laundry room. The vending machine ate your money. The washer isn't draining. Three out of five dryers are broken. Etc.

On this particular day, three of the five dryer were broken. So it was really crazy doing laundry. 5 washers and only two dryers. It was soon brought down to one. IF you're faint of stomach, don't read anymore.

Me=Queen of the of all things Rez related
RS= Rez student.

*RS walks up the the desk looking disgusted*
Me= Hey RS, what's wrong?
RS= Um...well...*looks down the stairs and cringes*
Me= The basements totaled?
*RS shakes here head*
Me= Something wrong in the laundry room?
*RS nods, looking like she might ralph*
Me= *groans* Oh, don't tell me another dryer broke.
RS= Not exactly....Um...welll.... *cringes* It looks like someone took a dump in dryer 3.
Me= That's not funny.
RS= I'm serious.

So I called Patrol, Security, and the Duty Don. It was confirmed. There was feces in the dryer.

There are times when the actions of these kids shock even me.

[PepperElf]

that's when you secure the laundry totally for at least a week.
they can go pay for laundry in a laundromat.

if they complain?
"Adults don't shit in the washers and dryers."

Come to think of it.. perhaps a pass-key. i hate to suggest that they come to the person on duty / shift to do their laundry but apparently they can't act like adults yet anyway.

[MiloMorai]

Try an electronic programmable lock like hotels have these days. Everyone gets a key and it leaves a record of who is in there and WHEN. Add a couple cameras and problems are gone....mostly. make sure they have a tinted bubble for protection tho.

[Bright_Star]

That's so sad that a lot of kids going to college think it's one big party & act accordingly. Then they have the nerve to act all surprised & pissed off when they get in trouble & have to "pay the piper".
Pooping in a washer isn't funny-it's not "totally bitchin', dude". It's not even a college prank. That's considered willfull damge to property & it CAN result in serious fines.

[BigBird]

That happened in the laundry room of the dormitory I lived in at university (many, many years ago), except the idiot did it in one of the washing machines, Worse yet, the kid who used the machine afterwards didn't notice the "gift" before he put his laundry in. He got a lovely surprise when he went to take his stuff out of the machine.

Just gross.

[JLRodgers]

Sadly with things at a college dorm.... way too many people get punished for the deeds of one person. Back when I was in college the entire floor got charged $20/person to repaint the bathrooms..... because people over 8 years prior had writen in the stalls -- the building wasn't even a dorm room (it was a campus hospital) when it happened! But they punished all the people on the floor that had access to it so they "wouldn't do it again".

Just thinking that if they did punish people by locking the laundry/etc -- it'd be punishing everyone - and potentially not even the person who did it (if people other than students can be found on the floor at any times).

Of course... since the person who complained about the writing in my case found a pile of human crap and urine at his door (oh, they denied the men access to the bathrooms for about a day -- the person who left the guy the "present" thought it was fitting). Tthe CDA (community development assistant or something) despite having a problem with the "present" being left since it was inappropriate to do, disagreed with us being charged since she knew we didn't do it and even had proof.

[Librarybabe]

Happened at my university, too.

All the residents of the building were billed for new machines. Once they found out they were ALL being held responsible, the actual culprit was quickly "outed".

[JLRodgers]

All the residents of the building were billed for new machines. Once they found out they were ALL being held responsible, the actual culprit was quickly "outed".

That's good at least, well assuming the bill went to the one person not all after that. In my case when they heard that no one there was responsible, they said "too bad you should've known better" and billed us anyway.

[mattm04]

One of the dorms at my school managed to cause over $20K of damages in one year, just to that buildings elevator. They managed to kick out the walls once.

So crap in a dryer is not as destructive as you can get.

[Jester]

So crap in a dryer is not as destructive as you can get.

Oh, you can get quite destructive in the dorms.

I remember when I lived in the dorms we all had security deposits on our rooms. If you had a single hole in door or a closet door, you would lose a small amount of the deposit. However, if there were any more than one hole, the entire door would be replaced and the deposit would be completely lost. So if you had two or more holes, there was no point in not trashing the rest of the doors.

Which is just what we did one time in my room. I had a couple of holes in my closet doors from who knows what, so we had a party in which we thoroughly trashed said closet doors. When I moved out, only a few inches of material were still attached to the hinges. Hey, my deposit was gone anyways, right?

And no, I am not advocating destruction. But since the policy was a bit over the top, I didn't see any problem with what we did. They were going to replace the entire door anyway, and I HAD paid for it with my security deposit. As I saw it, the door was mine to do with what I wanted at that point.

And yes, I also realize that in the grand scheme of college chaos and destruction, this is very, very minor. Ask me some time about the goal post going over the bridge.........

[Kiwi]

The first apartment I moved into with K had a laundry in the basement

I went down to do laundry one day and met a maintance man on the way down

he asked me if I had been to do laundry that day and I said "no, why?" he then asked if I had noticed a funny smell in the laundry room and I said "I havent beeen in there yet why?"

He explained that someone had taken a dump in the washing machine and he was going to "bleach it out"

we used a laundry mat after that and moved out of the building as soon as we could!

[JLRodgers]

A few people I knew at college told a story of the probably $50k+ of damage, and the possibility of a murder (manslaughter). Some students got on the tallest building and filled a garbage bag (a 55gal like sized one -- one of the biggest non-commercial ones) filled it with water and some dye of sorts and dropped it off the roof.........

..... and it crashed through the ceiling of the bottom entry way almost hitting and killing the student working the desk (she was injured). There was apparently a large amount of the ceiling that collapsed (well, a small hole overall, but a good 10x10 area or so) and water damage to computers, chairs, carpet, etc.....

They thought (as did I originally) that it would've just made a big splash mark on the ground.... but it didn't.


Kind of makes crap in the dryer, small holes in a door, and some writing on a bathroom stall seem insignificant.

[Jester]

Kind of makes crap in the dryer, small holes in a door, and some writing on a bathroom stall seem insignificant.

Yeah. Sort of like the time my friend blew up one of her high school bathrooms.

Yes. Blew up. As in the damn thing exploded. Yes, the whole bathroom.

And that's how I met her....she was in my high school because HER high school had expelled her after that stunt.

Though she assures me the explosion was quite accidental, and not at all what she had intended.

[Dave1982]

My freshman year, the "funny" thing to do was to smash ceiling tiles and occassionally light fixtures. That ended pretty quick one night when three guys single handedly trashed the entire floor. You literally could not take a step without stepping on debris from the ceiling. They got a hefty fine.

Though that was nothing compared to the guy who set off the fire alarm not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES in one night. That earned him a $2000 fine, academic probation, and getting kicked out of the dorms.

[depechemodefan]

I wonder if someone just hanged his/her butt in the dryer and took a dump, or took a crap on newspapers or something and threw it in there. Because if he/she hanged his/her asss in there, I imagine it's a small asss.

Not really a prank, but I visited a cousin at UT. Her dorm had a rule you couldn't open the windows. O fcourse, the rumor was someone got drunk and threw him/herself out a window. I was telling the story to a friend who went to UT ad he said the reason was people would open the window and let the central AC/Heat out.