Operation 403-Success but a failure

This post being another true incident, is specific to my friends circle(50p), but people who lived in hostels can definitely connect to an incident like this :)

HIS-TORY

1) I almost got expelled in my first year of college on allegations of breaking tubelights and planting country-made bombs(They're a bit more louder than the loudest Diwali firecracker) inside the hostel premises. 50p saved my ass saying I was not the kind of guy who would do such cheap acts.

2) Gnyanamani was a tough officer in VIT university and I had got into trouble a lot of times with this guy. In fact, he refused to allow my sister inside VIT when she wanted to visit me inside the campus.

3) The hostel in-time was 9 pm and the only punks who could return after that were people who "knew" the security guards. We "knew" them pretty well and one of my close friends would often buy them stuff(or he did something to them that made them very loyal and helpful to our entire gang)

MY-STORY

We were preparing to leave hostel at 8:55(our usual time for movie outings) and asking friends who were interested too. "Fakir" never watched a late night show and we managed to convince him saying nothing can happen to us since we "knew" the security guards.

IIM-RAGS who had already watched the movie, the previous day and returned to his hostel room by climbing the pipe at 1 am, was not interested. But he was forced to come along with us and he finally gave in.

Sharjah who wanted to come to his first late night movie came till the hostel gates. For the instinctive guy that he was, he sensed something and went back to his room.

I always had company when I committed a crime in college. The entire 50p was my partner-in-crime and Jackson, who heads all our crime activities ranging from a chillar late night movie to preparing Jays, was all cool. After all, it was just another day for him. ( A quick tribute to Jackson for having been there and done all that: Can convince any high authority into doing anything in college, get stuff and roll Jays at any time including time of exams, help anybody at anytime for anything. I considered him an OASIS. He would have 13 arrears at any point of time and he would not think twice when you want him to do something when you're busy preparing for exams )

The movie got over at 12:30 and 8 VIT blokes caught a single auto back to hostel. We always stop the auto at the railway crossing so that we can crawl like the soldiers do, in case of an emergency. Auto would be the dumbest option to enter our hostel.

We walked till our G Block and went about discussing the usual question: Do we climb the pipe or just talk our way into the hostel? The guards kept changing and unless we were sure it was a guard we "knew", we would not risk taking that option.

We decided that the pipe would be the best option and we gathered up around the backside of the building.

The G Block security guards were the people we "knew" but the Hostel Supervisor Rajesh who kind of knew about our activity had made a good deal with the guards. Dough was probably one of the possible spoilers of the friendship between us and the guards.

One of us started climbing and the others were waiting for the turn below.

*Whistles* and *Torchlights*!!! We turned around and heard people approaching us. 2 guys who sensed this fast ran towards the railway gates(which is 1 Km away from the hostel). Their story ends here and they walked another 2 Kilometres and slept in their friend's apartment.

The 6 of us were startled. It wasn't the G block security guards after all. They were a whole fucking bunch of guards from many blocks. G block fellows were scanning and guarding G block sneaky exits and entrances alone. Rajesh was the brainchild behind this operation and obviously he had it all well planned.

The 6 of us got caught and were made to assemble at the front gate. The G Block guards were quick to explain to us, in a jiffy, that they had no choice but to oblige to their boss. They had betrayed us.

We were made to sleep outside the hostel on newspapers and we were let in next morning at 6am. Fakir was crestfallen for obvious reasons and IIM Rags felt sad he had to undergo this for watching a movie for the second time on consecutive days!

Beeru, Jackson and I were not a happy lot either. Next day, the remaining 5 guys went to college and I decided to sleep. At around 11 am, another supervisor whom we called Clive Lloyd came and inspected our room(Room 403 already had its history. The room was vacant for a long time because 4 people were expelled out of the hostel!!! Talk about the power of numbers).

They do this to see if any additional penalty is applicable so the criminals are kept out of hostels forever and if possible, chuck them out of college too. He woke me up and shouted at me for possessing a pack of cards(Read the hostel rules post and you wont find it funny that playing cards are bad). He found a tumbler and sniffed it. Some blokes use a tumbler to store weed and Clive got excited looking at one. That tumbler however, was used by us only for drinking tea. Being lazy asses we had not washed it for nearly a semester. Clive Lloyd sniffed it for a second and quickly threw it out of the door in disgust, the next second. There is no feeling to express this cheap enjoyment which I cherish till today.

3 days later, the entire VIT had notices stating that the 6 of us have been officially dispatched to reside outside campus on a temporary or a permanent mission. No it was not that decent. I said, we were expelled out of the hostel for an indefinite time and we need to vacate asap. A "suitable" fine was also applicable.

Whatever damage this incident did to us is eclipsed by the fact that we laugh over it today! After all, we came back into the hostel using IIM rags, Fakir's and Beeru's Good-boy-images. A major problem in getting back to the hostel though, was the fact that Jackson was included in this crime list! I was in no position to pull strings either, with Gyanamani ready to nail me with the slightest opportunity.

Another reason why we laugh over it is because we entered the B block, next year where all such criminals are put together. The movie incident became a really chillar episode and it was not even worth saying it was a crime trying to climb pipes. B block grooms some of VITs best criminals. Be it people who roll Jays or the ones who smoke them right on the face of the block's warden ;)