icfp and feeling safer walking through campus

[alexr_rwx]

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.

Comments

[cola-fan.livejournal.com]

fuckers! that is a weird experience to have.

Glad you two are ok.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*hugs!*

Yeah, in retrospect, I don't think they were trying to hurt us, just freak us out...

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

My friend/coworker Jim and I were unlocking the door to our off-campus lab on 8th Street (just the block from Octane) in the middle of the day when a red pickup truck drove by 5 feet away from us and honked its horn.

Its retrofit 18-wheeler horn. A particularly loud 18-wheeler horn. Might have been a train horn.

I jumped about 2 feet in the air, and Jim very nearly dropped the covered glass beaker in his hand which contained about $150 worth of boron carbide slurry.

Assholes.

[pyrona.livejournal.com]

I... can't even fathom the mental image of you yelling and cursing at someone, and it upsets me highly that anyone would do something to inspire it ;_;

People are so useless sometimes. Glad you all are ok.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen me drink my morning tall glass of Hatorade!

*shrugs*

Thanks, though!

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

Heh. I could only picture him waving his fist in the air and shouting, "You friggin' frackin' nogoodnicks!"

[kel-e-o.livejournal.com]

Ha! That actually made me LOL. Mostly because I can completely see Alex doing that.

[cabrita.livejournal.com]

Because I'm incredibly nerdy, I'm subscribed to the GT Crime Log email list. There has been a surprising amount of violence, theft, and otherwise scary things happening on campus recently...people being mugged in broad daylight and now apparently people shooting fireworks out of their cars. I'm a little frightened to go back.

I'm quite glad to hear everyone's okay, though. :^)