A Northeastern University (not "the" Northeastern University), circa 1997, in "the quiet dorms." The 3 dorm buildings are in a circle with a spacious courtyard in the middle. One day, there's a horrendous, repeating, ear-splitting, probably 130-140db KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG noise echoing across the entire courtyard, off the buildings and back at each other, and even noticeable at least 1/4 mile down the hill that the dorms sit upon. It's so loud and seemingly omni-present that you can't even tell where the sound is coming from.

It's going, and going, and going, as people wander around with their heads ducked and their arms over their ears, occasionally making WTF gestures at each other as they try to get inside one of the buildings quickly, or head away down the hill as fast as they can.

This goes on an on, until the police arrive, go upstairs, muck around for awhile, and then eventually the noise stops.

Turns out: They had to bust in a door to gain access to a dorm room, so they could turn off the stereo inside. The dude who habitated in the room had actually pumped his system to max, left whatever the hell music on, opened the window, and then fucked merrily off to campus. Probably because of the intense vibrations caused by the obscenely loud volume, the CD had shortly after begun to skip, hence the abbreviated banging noise (instead of whatever garbage music noise he undoubtedly intended to gift the entire sub-campus with in his absence).

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess of what ethnicity and complexion the offender happened to be. Snapple fact: The University student population was at least 95% lily-white and no this information is not helpful in guessing the answer.

A Northeastern University (not "the" Northeastern University), circa 2000, in "the quiet dorms." The 3 dorm buildings are in a circle with a spacious courtyard in the middle. One day, there's a horrendous, repeating, ear-splitting, probably 130-140db KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG KRANG noise echoing across the entire courtyard, off the buildings and back at each other, and even noticeable at least 1/4 mile down the hill that the dorms sit upon. It's so loud and seemingly omni-present that you can't even tell where the sound is coming from.

It's going, and going, and going, as people wander around with their heads ducked and their arms over their ears, occasionally making WTF gestures at each other as they try to get inside one of the buildings quickly, or head away down the hill as fast as they can.

This goes on an on, until the police arrive, go upstairs, muck around for awhile, and then eventually the noise stops.

Turns out: They had to bust in a door to gain access to a dorm room, so they could turn off the stereo inside. The dude who habitated in the room had actually pumped his system to max, left whatever the hell music on, opened the window, and then fucked merrily off to campus. Probably because of the intense vibrations caused by the obscenely loud volume, the CD had shortly after begun to skip, hence the abbreviated banging noise (instead of whatever garbage music noise he undoubtedly intended to gift the entire sub-campus with in his absence).

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess of what ethnicity and complexion the offender happened to be. Snapple fact: The University student population was at least 95% lily-white and no this information is not helpful in guessing the answer.