A wave of vandalism over the holiday weekend left at least 25 cars damaged in Hanover.
According to Hanover Police Captain Chris O'Connor, vehicles were damaged "throughout the area," including in the College's A-Lot parking area and on West Wheelock Street behind the ABCD apartments. Most cars had slashed tires.
Reports of the slashings started coming in late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, O'Connor said.
"We're still getting reports," O'Connor said.
O'Connor said Hanover Police are investigating the matter.
Rita Mitchell '00, who lives in an apartment on West Wheelock, was one of the students whose vehicle was vandalized.
Mitchell said the three cars in her apartment complex's parking lot each had their back left tire slashed. Mitchell's car tire was slashed four times, she said.
Mitchell said she first noticed the damage when she tried to go out Sunday morning, and called in to the police to report it.
She said she was told 25 to 30 vehicles had been damaged.
Amy DiLuna '00, who also lives in the ABCD apartments, said she actually saw the perpetrators in action.
DiLuna said she and several friends were still up at 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning, and heard a hissing sound outside. They went outside and saw "two kids" letting the air out of a tire.
DiLuna reported the incident to the police, she said.
Every car but one in her complex's lot was damaged, DiLuna said.
Another event this past weekend reported to the police was an incident involving persons who broke into one of the ABCD apartments and proceeded to cook and eat eggs.
Jana Musumeci '00, who lives in the apartment where the eggs were cooked, also had her tires vandalized. She said she and her roommates initially thought the alleged tire vandals had been behind the missing eggs. They reported this to the police, Musumeci said.
Later, Musumeci and her roommates found out that friends of theirs had actually entered the apartment and prepared the missing eggs as an omelet.
However, the police called the apartment later and informed the occupants that the alleged tire vandals had confessed to the egg-cooking incident.
"It's all really strange," Musumeci said.
A-Lot was the scene of another incident involving tires in May 1997, when Russell Cornell '97 had his car's tires stolen.
In this incident, thieves jacked up Cornell's vehicle, stole the tires and left the vehicle on concrete blocks.
