the issue of (un)locked doors...

The “AllHands” email in our department is constant source of entertainment. Lately there’s been a whole series of emails, forwarded emails, crossed-emails and email parts going around regarding unlocked doors at night.
It started with a forwarded email from the Chemistry department reminding everyone there to make sure they properly locked the lab doors. Apparently they caught a couple of students trying to repeat an experiment they had seen on Youtube.
The email was forwarded to our department with an added comment that we need to remember to lock OUR buildings at night – which started a whole controversy of who found what building unlocked at what time, who should be making sure they are locked, who is unlocking them and so forth. Oh, stuff got blown so out of proportion, people were offended, people were accused, names were named and general name-calling ensued.
Real drama, about real life issues – seriously, who needs reality TV? Oh, my favorite part was one of the email which mentioned certain “ingredients” available that people could “use” for “experiment”. If we’re really that obsessed with terrorists –they’ve kinda already won.