Water from a plugged-up bathtub in a men’s bathroom flooded part of the hallway and several rooms Sunday on the sixth floor of Day Residence Hall.

Daniel D. Winn, 22, started the flood and put ‘liquid nail adhesive’ into 16 door locks, resulting in $1,500 in damages, according to a police report.

Winn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief in the second degree by the Syracuse Police Department at about 5 a.m. He was visiting Jen Tremblay, an undeclared freshman in the College of Health Services and Human Professions, of the sixth floor for the weekend.

‘It was a random drunken act,’ Tremblay said. ‘I’m really surprised my friend did that to my floor.’

The responding Public Safety officers found Winn on the second floor, handcuffed him and called SPD, said Corp. Edward Weber of the Department of Public Safety.

Winn was wearing a jacket with ‘police’ written on it, making him easy for officers to spot, Weber said.

Winn told the officers that he was drunk when he plugged the tub and the locks, according to the police report. Winn said that he was angry because someone yelled at him for using an emergency exit door the night before.

Tremblay said that Winn left her room to smoke a cigarette, and she fell asleep. She woke up at 5:30 a.m. when a Public Safety officer knocked on her door.

‘When I stepped out into the hallway, immediately I stepped right into the puddle of water,’ Tremblay said.

Public Safety will determine Tremblay’s exact violation today, Weber said.

Police are holding Winn until his arraignment today or Tuesday, and if found guilty, could face a minimum sentence of a year of prison time, Weber added.

Fix-It workers arrived shortly after the Public Safety officers to unplug the bathtub and fix the locks, said Mike Nichols, a junior religion major and the resident advisor of the floor.

Water flooded out from the bathroom past three rooms in both directions, Nichols said.

When Eric Tobiassen, a freshman mechanical engineering major, went in the bathroom at about 3 a.m., the bathtub was plugged with toilet paper and the bathroom partially flooded, Tobaisson said.

Tobiassen then returned to his room and, at 5 a.m., heard residents of the floor yelling outside the room when they saw the flooding.

Water seeped halfway through the room of Pat Eslick, a freshman chemistry major, who lives directly across the hall from the bathroom. Although his room filled with the most water, none of his property was damaged, Eslick said.

‘It came almost to my desk and was a foot and a half away from my power cord,’ Eslick said.

The Fix-It workers spent about an hour vacuuming the flood water from the hall, Eslick said.

Tobiassen, who lives in the room four doors down from the bathroom, decided to take advantage of the situation and ‘slip and slide’ in his pants and shirt down the hallway.

‘I said to myself, ‘How many times am I gonna get the opportunity to do this?” Tobiassen said.

Published on February 15, 2004 at 12:00 pm