Warning to students

[abe2010]

Just got this email from a friend in the ME department. Watch out fellow students,

Dear ME Students,

We would like to bring the below incident to your attention.

It was reported that one of TA's in Chemical & Biological Engineering department was approached by someone outside of Sweeney, offering him a ride home. He was quite uncomfortable by this stranger approaching him, and fortunately another grad student came out of the building, which caused the individual to jump in his car and speed away.

We would like to encourage you all to be aware of your surroundings, and be careful. This has been reported to the ISU police and I encourage all of you to report any strange incidents to them as well. Please be on the lookout for each other too, and walk with a friend if possible.

Stay safe.

ME Advising Center

 

[yler4cy]

Wow, this is crazy to think of. Hopefully they catch this idiot.

 

[cdekovic]

Maybe this is where the missing student went too.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Did the car have a smiley face on it...that's all we need to know

 

[CyDude16]

I also heard there was a shady invdividual on a cy-ride over the weekend, that offered rides and bribing others with alcohol, etc. to come hang out and stuff.

 

[cycfan1]

Wow, this is getting absurd. I also have another story from a friend that scares me too. Not sure he wants this info out, but he did contact police about it. I used to feel safe in Ames, now not so much.

 

[SCNCY]

Wow, this is getting absurd. I also have another story from a friend that scares me too. Not sure he wants this info out, but he did contact police about it. I used to feel safe in Ames, now not so much.

Could you tell us the story without using names, so then we know what to look out for?

 

[dtclones]

Boy, ISU Police better amp up security big time if they haven't already. I sure hope they aren't taking these stories lightly. I can't even count the number of times I walked out of Sweeney alone late at night...it gives me chills.

 

[CloneIce]

I also heard there was a shady invdividual on a cy-ride over the weekend, that offered rides and bribing others with alcohol, etc. to come hang out and stuff.

Probably just a lonely guy trying to make a friend. Its gotta be pretty rough when you have to resort to riding around on the drunk bus offering free beer. :smile:

 

[MNCyGuy]

Boy, ISU Police better amp up security big time if they haven't already. I sure hope they aren't taking these stories lightly. I can't even count the number of times I walked out of Sweeney alone late at night...it gives me chills.

No kidding, I walked across campus at night all the time and didn't think twice about it.

 

[Agkistrodon]

If you really want to feel unsafe, come to the University of Illinois. We've had a fairly regular stream of muggings lately, probably not all by the same person/group of people. The building I teach in has been burglarized several times. Students coming out of that building at night have been robbed at knife-point.

I'd take one creepy guy in Ames over all the criminals in Champaign-Urbana on any given day.

 

[dtclones]

If you really want to feel unsafe, come to the University of Illinois. We've had a fairly regular stream of muggings lately, probably not all by the same person/group of people. The building I teach in has been burglarized several times. Students coming out of that building at night have been robbed at knife-point.

I'd take one creepy guy in Ames over all the criminals in Champaign-Urbana on any given day.

Yeah that's pretty scary too, but I think the fact that this guy is trying to potentially abduct young men is extra creepy due to this Lacina kid missing. Everyone is kind of walking on pins and needles.

 

[CyPride]

the people that saw these people i assume can give a description to police including the person on the bus.

 

[LeSchmick]

Wait. So they thought this email was only relevant to ME students? So the rest of the student body has nothing to worry about?

 

[SCNCY]

If you really want to feel unsafe, come to the University of Illinois. We've had a fairly regular stream of muggings lately, probably not all by the same person/group of people. The building I teach in has been burglarized several times. Students coming out of that building at night have been robbed at knife-point.

I'd take one creepy guy in Ames over all the criminals in Champaign-Urbana on any given day.

I agree, however, the populations are very different. Champaign and Urbana together are roughly 115,000 where as Ames is only 50,000. Champaign and Urbana are basically the same town connected by the University of Illinois. When you get bigger populations, you get more serious crimes on a more consistent basis. I've been there enough to know the area a little bit, and my sister goes there for school.

 

[jtdoyle1]

Wait. So they thought this email was only relevant to ME students? So the rest of the student body has nothing to worry about?

No they are just the only ones that matter.

 

[ddisu]

Wait. So they thought this email was only relevant to ME students? So the rest of the student body has nothing to worry about?

Well the ag kids usually are wearing their **** kickers and sporting a nice pocket knife. The ME kids are easy tagets with their graphing calculators and whatnot.

 

[Tre4ISU]

Well the ag kids usually are wearing their **** kickers and sporting a nice pocket knife. The ME kids are easy tagets with their graphing calculators and whatnot.

That's kind of funny.

Call me anal, but when I had to walk home in the dark by myself on campus I always had keys in hand.

 

[ddisu]

That's kind of funny.

Call me anal, but when I had to walk home in the dark by myself on campus I always had keys in hand.

Me too. But that was a timesaver b/c the keys were to shotgun a beer with once I got home.

 

[cycoOJfan89]

If you really want to feel unsafe, come to the University of Illinois. We've had a fairly regular stream of muggings lately, probably not all by the same person/group of people. The building I teach in has been burglarized several times. Students coming out of that building at night have been robbed at knife-point.

I'd take one creepy guy in Ames over all the criminals in Champaign-Urbana on any given day.

I agree that Champaign is probably less safe than Ames but it's the thought of a weirdo possibly stalking and/or abducting young men added with the missing student that is really making people feel unsafe.

Also, I have been robbed at knife point in CR and last August got sucker struck with a blunt object to my face in Ames, when I wasn't even involved in the situation. My jaw was broken and my buddy who saw it happen from a distance said he thought the object resembled a gun, but wasn't 100%. I'll admit I could have avoided that situation, I went up to one of the troublemakers and tried to help the situation by talking to him. (not knowing that a few of them had knives themselves...)