This Is Your Car On Drugs

Last night, I drove back to my dorm after I left the computer lab and when I pulled in to the parking lot, there was a random truck sitting there with these firefighter-type lights flashing. At first I'm thinking some redneck had to go inside the building and was too lazy to park first so he just turned on his flashing lights and stopped in the middle of the parking lot. Then as I pulled in further, I saw several police cars, an ambulance, and a fire truck all in the back part of the lot on the gravel. My roommate is diabetic, and when his parents came to visit they gave me this long list of things to do in case his blood sugar goes too high or too low, so I thought maybe something had happened with him. I quickly parked my car and started running up to the main part of where everything was happening...partly because I cared about what happened, partly because I figured that Jack Bauer would run up to the scene like that too. I kinda wish I'd been wearing body armor and carrying a gun. But anyway, I went inside and asked around and found out that some dude's car caught on fire! And I didn't get all the details, but somehow there was a person in the back seat of the car when the police came and they had to pull this guy out as the car was burning. Now if I had to give my personal opinion on this matter, I'd have to go with the idea that somebody was doing something they shouldn't have been doing and that's when the car caught on fire. Unless you believe in spontaneous combustion. Sometimes you have some alcohol...and then you light a cigarette...and then a spark hits the alcohol and you drop it on your car... So anyway, major fun stuff going on here at GWU. (And yes, these are real pictures of the burnt-up car.)