Crazy, drugged out people wandering around campus. Who’s surprised?
One minute you’re walking to the library, the next minute a toked out druggie is screaming in your face. That was the case for Natalie, one of dozens of students who encountered an incoherent adult male on the north Knight Library Lawn today.
The man, who “was covered in mud and shouting to himself,” according to Natalie, was detained and transferred to Sacred Heart hospital today after a particularly nasty drug trip, according to UO DPS.
DPS received the call at one this afternoon, while en-route from a completely unrelated call, providing a convenient work flow for the officers. The man wasn’t related to the school in any way, according to DPS Lt. Casey Boyd. Boyd did confirm that he was out of prison on parole, and he had been in prison for drug use. In this case LSD.
Lt. Boyd suspected a narcotic influence when she first saw him. “His pupils were constricted about as far as they could go” she said. It took about four officers to detain the young man, and Boyd attributes this to the LSD (think retard strength).
When I arrived halfway through the event, scene it looked like his eyes had rolled back in his head and he was slack-jawed and utterly out of his mind.
The man croaked and screeched as he was loaded onto a stretcher, fully restrained with straps and limb cuffs, and whisked away to the hospital. His fate is now in the hands of his parole officer, although he was cited for disorderly conduct and trespassing before his evacuation. Boyd considers the issue pretty cut and dry. DPS go the call, detained the suspect and got him off campus.
