Oh, Iowa City

You gotta love Iowa City. How can one town be so filled with intelligence and talent, and simultaneously such absurd stupidity.

I am referring of course to the case of the 'Three Michaels'. Three twenty-ish best friends (from suburban Illinois, that's where the stupidity comes from) apparently are now under arrest because last night one of them was getting a PAULA (under-aged drinking ticket) from an Iowa City police officer. Guy Number 2 comes up, grabs the officer's citation pad from his hands and runs off with it! A third guy pushes the officer backward and they all run away. Except the one with the citation book slips and falls on the corner of Clinton and Washington (yes, in front of Pancheros, bless the ice and snow this once!) the officer tackles him to the ground, but the third guy comes back and jumps on the officer's back trying to get him off of his friend. They both get away and start running again and AGAIN Guy Number 2 slips and falls on the corner! Guy Number 3 gets away but while the officer is booking Guy Number 2, he oh-so-casually walks by the scene again and is spotted by another officer! He runs and hides in some bushes, but obviously that doesn't work. He's arrested too! The first guy who was getting the PAULA in the first place meanwhile has disappeared, but later he is found and arrested at Currier Hall where he lives! Now they are facing various charges of intoxication, of course, as well as resisting arrest, interference with official acts, attacking a police officer, robbery, etc, some of which are serious misdemeanors!

AND they're all named Michael! Great mug shots at the Press-Citizen.com. Anyway, classic show of University of Iowa undergraduate stupidity, courtesy of the state of Illinois.