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The Best of the Harvard University Police Log 2000

1:49 a.m.--A HUPD officer was dispatched to the Harvard Herbarium to investigate a van full of live rats. When the officer arrived on the scene, the suspicious van was gone.

2:21 a.m.--Multiple callers reported a man screaming in the Leverett Tower courtyard. When an officer interviewed the man, he replied that he was screaming because he had had a "bad day." (10/23)

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2:51 a.m.--A caller reported that he had seen two students enter Mower Hall with a sign taken from a Harvard Square store. The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) located the sign in a dorm room. The room's residents said that they had found the sign and had taken it for safekeeping. (10/25)

4:17 a.m.--HUPD checked on the wellbeing of someone lying on the lawn outside Wolbach Hall. An officer awakened the student and sent him home. (10/14)

7:26 a.m.--A caller reported that a flag had been stolen off the Widener Library crane. (10/21)

11:55 a.m.--A fire was reported at the "funny building across from Adams House." HUPD and fire units could not locate the fire in the Lampoon building; eventually they determined it was steam venting. They could not locate any humor in the building either. (3/1)

2:32 p.m.--A caller reported a burning chair in Adams House. An officer determined the chair was a play prop and had just been made to appear as if it was burning. (10/29)

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