2 - Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Saved by mai*ntenance PROTESTING IN PAJAMAS My friend and I were running See something that embo late to a play rehearsal at the ies the Ann Arbor or Univ( Mendelssohn Theater. We luck- sity of Michigan experienc ily snagged a parking spot across E-mail submissions to gro the street in front of University man@michigandaily.com. Health Services, so we figured we were in the clear. Somehow, thought it over for a whole min impossibly, inconceivably, my before calmly issuing orders. friend dropped his car keys - "First, let's lift the car off1 right through an iron sewer grate grate." (of course, his spare was with his And so we did. Thankfu family .. in Chicago). Luckily the Saabs are made of plastic. keys were still visible, but the car Then we removed the gr: was parked on top of the grate. but the keys were about 10-f We proceeded to fashion a below. My friend and I watcl retrieving device out of a dowel as the maintenance guys pul rod and a windshield scraper, their van next to the gr: though we only succeeded in When they opened the slid pushing the keys farther into the side door, we saw the solutior sewer. We were fast running out insanely high-powered vacu of time. cleaner. They took the nozzle Then, it appeared: a white van the end of the tube, lowered1 with maize and blue lettering. tube down in the sewer and t: It was a two-mai maintenance was it. We dug around the du crew, and they pulled into the insides of the vacuum cleaner: UHS driveway. After explaining retrieved the keys. our pitiful situation to them, they No, this was not a "MacGyv CRIME NOTES DPS issuies alert described as 5'10", about 25 years old with dark hair in cornrows. He was last seen wearing a dark- after 2 assaults colored fleece top. a The Department of Public near campus Safety encourages you to call 734-763-1131 if you have any The Department of Pub- information concerning either lic Safety issued a crime alert case. after receiving two reports of unarmed robbery. Both inci- Student urinates dents took place on Oct. 26 .one at about 9 p.m. and the other at in dorm closet about 9:30 p.m. In each incident, the sus- WHERE: Stockwell Hall pects approached the victim WHEN: Sunday at about 5:15 from behind, police said. a.m. The suspects stole a shoulder WHAT: A male University stu- bag from the victims in each dent was charged with a minor case, police said. The first inci- in possession of alcohol, DPS dent occurred on the 600 block reported. The male student was of Monroe Street, and the other intoxicated while he walked took place on the 1300 block of with a female student to her White Street. No weapons were dormitory, Stockwell Hall. Once observed in either incident, they arrived back to the dormi- according to police. tory, the male student urinated Witnesses described the first in a closet. The female student's suspect as a 5'8" muscular male roommate was upset about the around 25 years oldwith dark urination and so notified DPS hair and a dark-colored fleece officers. After beingcited by accordingto DPS. The other police, the male student was top, woringatoDP.Te, war given a ride home ina yellow suspect, who was also male, was taxi cab. episode. ANDREWSARGUS KLEIN Mini-me he's not I was on the sidelines, cover- ing the football game on Saturday and chatting with someone from Event Staff whose job is to keep photographers from getting too close to the field. He pointed out Vern Troyer, the actor who played Mini-me in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." After gawking for about 30 seconds, the Event Staff- er asked if I wanted to introduce myself to him. We went over to where he was seated, and the event staffer said "Hey Mini-me." Troyer, obviously offended, sternly responded "My name is Vern." I then greeted Vern, Mi introduced myself, and shook his ing hand. wa PETER SCHOTTENFELS qua AMPUS EVENTS & NOTES ke Wade stands on Liberty Street wearing pajamas, hold- a coffee pot and mug protesting the war in Iraq. He said he nts Americans to wake up and realize the possible conse- ences of war. 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