A legendary day that brought my roommates and I probation

A legendary day that brought my roommates and I probation
by dulac89 (2018-04-20 11:52:55)
Edited on 2018-04-23 14:52:13

In reply to: May have been the most spectacular tailgating day ever posted by enduff

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For the remainder of our junior and senior years

As was our usual, we set up shop the night before, slept in the car with a sign on the window that said "first person to read this sign wake us up"

A couple of guys that looked like college students were walking around videoing the festivities, cheering people on. We had never really sobered up from the night before, and were well into the tailgating that day, so our judgment was not 100% on, and we invited them to film us doing an upside down beer bong thinking they were seniors filming the last home game of the year. One roommate holding feet, another holding the bong, more pouring beers in, it was glorious. They applauded us when we were done.

Tuesday we get a knock on our door from campus police, with individual letters from Dr Goldrick and our personal copies of Dulac with the appropriate violations highlighted. Obviously, they weren't fellow students they were undercover ND police and they nabbed a ton of students hosting illegal tailgaters that day

Violations we were guilty of:
1. Students hosting a tailgater at which alcohol is served
2. Excessive use of alcohol
3. Using alcohol in a manner deemed dangerous
4. Using an instrument of alcohol abuse

Fines, alcohol abuse screening, community service, and probation until graduation. It was still glorious

We had a party at our house that following summer that was busted. We had exactly one roommate that wasn't on probation, and the poor guy had to take the entire rap for the party because the rest of us had to bolt the house.

If you had set a couch on fire too you could have qualified

for transfer to Michigan State.

We did have a couch, a large foam couch to be exact

We brought it to tailgaters because you could smash it into the back of the car.

And giant foam couches are fire retardant. We checked.

We had always heard rumors of the videotaping

Now, over 30 years later I get confirmation. Incredible!

There "may have been" a funnel at our tailgate as well. Don't know how we dodged Goldrick.

I also remember stories about a custom van parked in green field that took some significant damage with the crowd craziness.

Absolutely true. One roommate had been in trouble before

and was already on double secret probation, so Goldrick knew who he was and coincidentally he had a meeting with Goldrick that morning. Instead of sitting down and talking about the usual, Goldrick just popped the VHS tape into the player and told him that if he didn't identify the remaining people in the video, he could count on being permanently expelled.

They nabbed a ton of students for hosting illegal tailgaters by videotaping license plates. We didn't even know that was illegal. Apparently hosting a tailgater at which alcohol is served was a violation of Dulac. Many were able to get around it if their parents were in town by saying it was their parent's tailgater, but unless you could prove the parents were there you were screwed.