Flasher Interrupts Classes at Iowa State

AP | 2/17/2004

[Keith in Iowa]

AMES, Iowa (AP) -- Three classes at Iowa State University -- two of them in the past two weeks -- have been interrupted by a man who flashed students and then ran.

A man wearing nothing but a trench coat, a Richard Nixon mask and tennis shoes entered a class auditorium Friday just as a meteorology exam began, said freshman Erik Triggs.

The man opened his trench coat, danced around and ran from one door to the other while yelling, Triggs said.

The previous incident happened Feb. 10 when a man fitting the same description interrupted a sociology class, said Brent Bruton, a sociology professor.

The man ran from the north side of the stage to the south end, with his trench coat open to roughly 400 students, Bruton said. The incident took less than 10 seconds.

Iowa State University Police Capt. Gene Deisinger said on Dec. 10, 2003, a man entered the Molecular Biology Building and exposed himself. The man was described as college age, with a black trench coat and a rubber mask.

If arrested, the man could be charged with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct, Deisinger said.

[Keith in Iowa]

Where was Bill Clinton on those dates?

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

I heard it was a clothing "Malfunction"

[Riley]

A man wearing nothing but a trench coat, a Richard Nixon mask and tennis shoes entered a class auditorium Friday just as a meteorology exam began, said freshman Erik Triggs.

Too bad Nixon's passed on. He could get away with all kinds of stuff. "I don't have any idea who it was, it was some guy in a Richard Nixon mask."

[AlbertWang]

Iowegians are easily amused.

[Veritas_est]

We need dental records.

[Redcoat LI]

I think it was John Kerry,he's really mad at Nixon for starting the Viet Nam war.

[cyborg]

Maybe he was in the DUmmy class.

[kaktuskid]

Dick Nixon?????

[martin_fierro]

Three classes at Iowa State University -- two of them in the past two weeks -- have been interrupted by a man who flashed students and then ran.

Student: "Perfesser, do we have to know that for the final?"

[cyborg]

Tricky Dick?

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

You guys are too funny!!!!!!!!! Stop it before I pee my pants. LOL

[prairiebreeze]

danced around and ran from one door to the other while yelling

Was he perhaps yelling, "YEEEEAAAAAAARRRHHH!?

Howie, was that YOU?

Prairie

[Paul Atreides]

The man opened his trench coat, danced around and ran from one door to the other while yelling,

It was only a matter of time until Tito Jackson joined the Michael and Janet Sexcapades.

[cyborg]

Perhaps the mask was a diversion and he was merely helping a student remember what happens to the barometer when a high pressure front rolls in.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

OMG!!! LOL
yup, I'm sure that's it.

[Cosmo]

Sounds like a fraternity prank. Why is this news?

[cyborg]

This is a serial flasher that demands oodles of well thought out innuendos from FReepers. That's why it's news. I'm touched that Nixon is honored by bank robbers, flashers, and those that hang ten in B rated movies.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>Why is this news?

It's the Iowa, the middle of Winter...there's nothing else going on here...HS sports tournament season is a couple weeks away...even the state legislators are boring right now...

[Cosmo]

Oh, I know that, I just can't understand what prompts AP to report it. They never reported such incidents at my college:)

[Cosmo]

Gotcha :) Pretty boring and cold in VA, too.