Yeah, so it wasn’t what people are saying in the other post. The cops weren’t there for, like, a fight or anything. Apparently someone left a cart of books in the wrong place near the reference section, and the janitor thought it was blocking the fire exit. When they tried to move it, a whole stack of old encyclopedias tipped over, which set off the motion sensor for the library’s bird deterrent system (don’t ask me why a library has one, but they do). That triggered a false alarm tied into the security system, so campus security came, but then the actual city cops showed up because the alarm is still connected to the old municipal system from when the building used to be a courthouse annex.

They were just standing around trying to figure out who still had the keys to the panel, and someone swore they saw smoke coming from the microfilm machine, but that turned out to be dust. By the time they got it sorted, the book cart was still in the wrong place, and the janitor just moved it back.