icfp and feeling safer walking through campus

ICFP in progress! Big Scheming ahoy with lindseykuper. Martin samarin and Mark yourusername are downstairs getting their Python on.

Last night, we were walking back from the movie theater -- with bikes, because I'm a champ and don't carry a patch kit and got a flat tire. As we walked by the bus stop at Ferst and Atlantic, some guys in a black car with blue underneath-the-car lights pulled up alongside us. I didn't think anything of it, at first -- maybe they were about to drop somebody off? But then they start shooting fireworks at us out of the windows! (one of them hit Lindsey! she's fine -- but it burnt a hole in her shirt)

Who does that?

I yelled and cursed at them, and ran after the car for a little bit as they drove off. But then they circled back around, from the other direction, and I hurled more obscenities. They opened the car doors and said something, and then drove off. They seemed kind of confused, really. The gatech police were at the corner almost immediately, which surprised me; they were pulling up just as I was hitting the call box. Apparently they'd had another report of the same thing happening just before. The officer who spoke to us was pretty cool, for what it's worth. And then we walked home.