Two hose trucks, a hook and ladder, and two police cars beat a path to the door of a red Plymouth yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field Road, after the undergraduate owner of the vehicle had tried unsuccessfully to suffocate a back seat bonfire with a baseball glove.
Some half a hundred residents of the Business School's Hamilton Hall gathered to watch what had originally been a policeman's request for "a piece of apparatus" materialize into a full-dress motorcade.
Police had first experimented with dried-ice extinguishers, but then called on the fire department, disregarding the suggestion of owner John G. Simon '50 that they toss the seat into the Charles.
Advertisement
Want to keep up with breaking news?
Subscribe to our email newsletter.
Read more in News
Baseball Results
