Portable grills, coolers, even food and drink out of coolers being stolen by jerk* is not uncommon unfortunately, at Rentschler and at other venues for football games. I've had coolers, grills, propane, everything taken at one time or another over the years, at stadiums (stadia?) all over. It seems the first time you get careless and leave something out in plain view, it's gone. What's more troubling, is when something gets taken right out of the bed of your truck. The only thing you can do is make sure you lock everything down and cover everything and make it as difficult as possible for somebody to walk up to your vehicle, and walk away with something.
What would be most, MOST troubling would be to find out that UConn students or anyone affiliated with the university were responsible. The only thing we can do is police ourselves.
There was an afternoon game a few years ago, when I saw a group of what had to be drunken students roaming and rummaging in the parking lots - my youngest son at the time, wasn't making it all the way through the game, so we left early, and I was very close to taking a tire iron out my truck and running those idiots down after I approached them. They were wearing blue. Jerks had the gumption to think I was the one doing something wrong approaching them to find out what the hell they were doing moving from truck to truck and looking in the beds. Pissed me off royally. I can handle punks that have nothing better to do but create trouble, but if it's your own students, that's simply unacceptable, and if I had my way, no student responsible for something like this would ever be allowed back to the stadium.
Any students reading this board. Families, friends, especially young kids at the stadium that don't understand why some people in the world are a=holes, people that want to enjoy their saturday at the stadium - Their days get ruined when they come back tot heir vehicles and find their belongings have been raided.
This is NOT cool. Anybody seen doing this, or anyone that knows that others are out there doing it, should be reported immeidately to security, or to a proper authority on campus, whether it be on game day or not. Take pictures. Everybody's got a camera on their phones today.
I'm very sorry for your friend's experience at his first game day. I unfortunately know all too well what it's like to have this happen.
And - yes - tell the boy to cover the ball!! that single mistake didn't cost the game, but it sure as hell would have helped!!
Next week.
