By Laura Ingalls
Arizona Daily Wildcat
A university employee suffered chemical burns to his anus Thursday at his workplace in the1200 block of North Mountain Avenue. He was treated at University Medical Center and released.
The victim told police he was using a toilet about 5 p.m. and was burned when liquid from the bowl splashed on him.
American Building Maintenance Company, the cleaning corporation, reported to university risk management that the solution was one of two base cleaners called Blend Center 256 or Bowl Cleaner. Police found cleaning solution in the bowl. The company apparently did not flush, police reported.
The victim reportedly met police in the building bent over with his pants down. The reporting officer noted that he did not personally examine the injured area.
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A 54-year-old man was arrested Thursday for shoplifting a book at the ASUA bookstore.
Police are seeking charges of larceny against John Molloy of Boston.
Molloy reportedly concealed a paperback atlas of Roman Britain in a newspaper about 8:40 a.m. and wandered around the store. Then he returned to the book rack and took two books to the cashier to be rung up, the store's loss prevention officer said.
When the cashier told him the total, he said he forgot his wallet and would return for the two books. He was apprehended by the loss officer who brought him back into the store and recovered the stolen book.
Molloy, who identified himself as Norman Collins to the cashier, told police he forgot about the book in his newspaper when he remembered he did not have his wallet.
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Two parking meters and three 'no bicycling' signs were vandalized in two separate incidents in the last two weeks.
Someone crushed the plastic sides of the two meters, valued at $250, with a large rock left at the meter's base. The meter, located in a flex lot on East Helen Street and North Martin Avenue, also was torn and scraped.
In another incident, three signs of unknown value were spray-painted near an underpass tunnel at East Helen Street and North Fremont Avenue.
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Someone stole a $2,700 computer and computer case between Sept. 1 and Wednesday at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house in the 500 block of East University Boulevard.
The victim told police his room was not locked at 1 p.m. Sept. 1 but the fraternity house was. Police found no signs of forced entry.
Residents of the house said they escorted an unknown suspect out of the house Sept. 3.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.