At 3AM, three cops came pounding at my door asking me where I had been that night

A friend of mine from University of Maimi came up to visit me and our friend from UConn. We decided to go to Uconn for the weekend. We hadn’t seen each other in months and it was great to see each other again. Everytime my friend from Uconn and I get together, we manage to get into trouble with the law in one way or another. When we got to Uconn we said our hellos and laughed about stories from back when. We decided that this was the night we would not get into trouble with the law—yeah right!

All of us followed him to see if one of his friends was in her dorm. When we saw that she wasn’t there, our friend from Miami and I took turns drawing a picture on the whiteboard outside of her door. She drew a crab at the bottom and we all laughed because no one could tell what it was. I drew a shark swimming at the bottom of the whiteboard. After this we decided to go upstairs and color like 1st graders because this would keep us out of trouble, or so we thought.

We got upstairs to our friend’s room and he took out crayons and markers. We all started coloring. Miami drew a page of purple and we hung the picture. UConn colored a picture of a guy killing another guy and grabbed random crayons coloring in the stick figures. We laughed about this and wanted to add things from the whiteboard so we had Miami add her crab and I added the shark at the top of the page. Uconn flipped the page over and colored a fat version of me and signed his name. He gave it to me. I laughed and accepted his gift, even though I didn’t really want it. We decided to go see a movie at this point and got up to leave.

On our way down the hallway, I noticed a dorm door with a thumb tack so I posted the picture of a fat me on the door and we kept on walking. After the movie, I was dropped off at my school around midnight and laughed with my friends on how we didn't get into trouble. We said our goodbyes and I went up to my dorm. I went to bed because I had an 8AM class the next day. At 2:30AM there was a pounding on my door.

"This is the police, open up!"

Half awake I opened the door in my boxers. There were three police officers standing at my door and my roommates looking at me assuming I must have committed a murder to bring three cops to our dorm room. The officers asked me what I had done that night and I explained to them what we had done. After talking to each other, they asked me to get dressed and take a ride over to Uconn. I got to Uconn around 3AM and was explained that the picture that I had posted was “offensive.” I was confused on how a fat me would be offensive and how they had found me through all this. My Uconn friend had signed the picture, that's how they found me, that part now made sense. Why I was in trouble, though, still didn’t add up.

The crayons my friend just happened to randomly select for his stick figures were peach and black. The peach stick figure on top was killing the black stick figure. Out of all the pictures my friend had ever drawn and out of all the colors he could have randomly selected he chose those. The door I happened to post it on was a room full of African -American girls. I spent till 5AM explaining to the cops what everything in the picture was, including the crab and the shark which they thought was some kind of gang symbol and how my friend was not racist or on medication. The picture and all of our statements remain on file with the Storrs Police Department.

I skipped class the next day. I figured I deserved it.