In an effort to bring home their missing roommate, two UW-Madison students have offered a reward: A saucer full of Natural Ice Lite beer should he find his way to the back door of the flat.
Charles Lumley and Jonathon Anspach, UW-Madison students and residents of 515 W. Mifflin St., contacted UW Police late yesterday to report their roommate, Daniel Bear\ Murphy, as a missing person.
Not content to simply wait for the police to locate Murphy, the two have resolved to assist in bringing their friend, who has been missing since late February, home safely by leaving out the saucer. ""We would wait around for Bear tonight but Jon's got to work at Cap Center [Foods] till 3 a.m., and I'm going to try to get on this chick I met at the bar last week,"" Lumley said. ""With the saucer of beer out though, if he does come back soon he'll definitely hang around for at least half an hour, unless he spills.""
""By then I'm sure somebody will notice him,"" he added.
Anspach said he was worried about Murphy, who has been missing for nearly six weeks.
""Usually we'd expect him to come back after his poli-sci lecture. It's on the other side of campus, but he loves walking. I started to worry recently. Anything could have happened between Observatory and Bassett.""
Lumley said this type of behavior has happened before.
""This isn't the first time he's disappeared. On Halloween we found out that he had been arrested for pissing on a mail box,"" he said. ""If the beer we left out doesn't bring him back tonight, we can just put a fresh one out tomorrow. That shit goes bad fast.""
""If he's not back in time to go to FAC, that's when I'll start to worry,"" Lumley added, ""because he is going to
miss out on getting mad wasted—totally fucked up.""
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