During the first term it’s not unusual for an array of bizarre items to accumulate in halls of residence, usually the result of drunken antics – road signs, trolleys, an Efe’s takeaway?
Imagine the suprise, though, when a student at Kingston University discovered that her drunken flatmates had brought the dead and diseased body of a fox back to their flat. The student has since been diagnosed with having intestinal parasites, an illness contracted through contact with wild animals.
Kingston University student newspaper The River has reported that one of the students involved has already been forced to vacate his room while the other, who was seen walking down the corridor with a blood-soaked shirt, has only days left before his eviction.
One resident, who was not involved in the incident, told The River: “I heard those involved in the corridor outside saying ‘Dude this is fucked up, this is seriously fucked up,’ then I heard another voice say ‘Oh my God, it’s looking at me! Kick it in the head!'” Allegedly, the fox had been dragged back to the flat by the students, where it was beaten, thrown from a top story window and dumped in a bin.
Professional cleaners were apparently brought in by the residence management after it was revealed that the fox’s presence in the block had caused the girl’s illness – a quality of service that new Goodricke cleaning staff, Derwent Living, may well have failed to offer.
Closer to home, students in Leeds have also fallen victim to the disgusting actions of others. Dubbed the ‘poopertrator’, an unidentified person has unleashed a wave of door-step defecation across Headingley and Hyde Park. Leeds University student Genevieve Osborne-James described, to The Leeds Student, the moment she awoke to discover that someone had used her doorstep as a toilet. “You could see where the person had relieved themselves against the wall beforehand and there were scraps of newspaper around, which had obviously been used as toilet paper. That’s how I knew it was a person.”
Either way there’s clearly a lot of strange students out there, so consider your housemates for next year carefully – intestinal parasites are probably less than enjoyable.