March 6, 2008
UC Davis Dorm Evactuated After Explosives Are Found
Mark Woods, an 18-year-old UC Davis economics major, was arrested today after authorities found a couple of pipe bombs in his dorm room, going well above and beyond the school's no hot plate policy.
More than 400 students were quickly evacuated from their dorm rooms last night after a n anonymous tipster called the police about the explosive materials. Woods, now facing two felony charges, including possessing explosives to make a bomb, meant no harm, according to his roommate:
Woods' roommate Robert Chao says that Woods wasn't plotting to do harm to anyone. "He had no intention of blowing anything up. He had no ill intentions as a person. That's not him."
Poor kid. We'd normally rail against him for acting so foolish, but seeing as how there's little to do in Davis aside from huffing glue and giving cows makeovers, we feel bad for Woods. But only a little. Anyway, goes on to report that "[a]uthorities believe it was an isolated incident and said there was no need to detonate any devices." And the evacuated students? They pulled "couches together in the dining hall and passed the time with movies." Ah, the college life.
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isn't UCDavis in the East Bay?
why are you littering my SFist with East Bay news?
Maybe he wasn't planning to blow anything up, but if my roommate was building pipe bombs, I'd get the hell out of the room ASAP, lest I find myself full of delicious shrapnel.
Hmm, Bayareaist doesn't sound as nice.
That guy looks like Josh Groban.
hey now...
that's my alma matter
Ah, that explains a lot.
Because the East Bay is soooo far away
Deborah: Looks more like that stoner kid who was on a few episodes of "Frasier."
wasn't the unibomber an econ major?
its farther away than the aves, and thats way farther than i care to go. you probably don't live in the Mission, so whatever.
Josh Groban crossed with Leo Sayer