The Ruby Red Slippers, I think it was 1999

Our address was 200 West Broad St and I shared a super amazingly HUGE apartment with my best of friends Kati and Courtney. 
We were young, hot, and completely nuts.
Our friends Dave, Dan (Frankie's brother) and Laura were in the apartment next to ours and between these two apartments, the party rarely stopped.  We entertained a fun environment of our friends: Ayndria, Jakki, Gabe, Balon, Brad (gabe's cousin), Will, Travis, Matt, Steve, James, Jason, Rebecca, Jay, Mike, Emily, Kenny, Jeremy, Tom, Lisa, Ashton, Allison, Ashley, Sammy, Jill, Jada, Crystal, Drew, Lil Jeremy, Merlin, Jaime, and many others.  Our living room was so big we would rollerskate down our long hallway and all around the living room, sometimes rollerskate races went on, sometimes we had wheel chair races and stunt contests, eventually we installed a half pipe for our skater friends.  We bought 40oz's and Nighttrain by the case at Ocean Grocery in Church Hill.  We paid our bills working as escorts, mostly ripping off desperate and tragic, pathetic men.  We bought groceries with food stamps.  We ingested an insane amount of drugs; Meth, Exstacy, Ketamine, even Crack.  We were alcoholics too.  Life was really fun. 
So, one night I was with Kati, Courtney and Gabe (possibly others) walking to the store, when Kati saw it.  It stopped her in her tracks.  She was squeeling with excitement and pointing at the Ruby Red Slippers on top of the Theatre 4 marque next door to our apartment.  They were performing The Wizard of Oz and using a pair of huge ruby red slippers as promotion for the play.  All the way to the store and back Kati talked about wanting those damn slippers for our apartment. 
A couple nights later we were at a party, wasted, and made friends with these mexican guys there that had this liquor with them and in the bottle was the head of a king cobra snake.  They warned us not to drink their liquor, but we insisted they share and I have to admit, I don't remember much more that night, but I do remember getting them slippers.  Gabe climbed the brick building of the theatre and got on top of the marque like he was spider man, almost effortless.  He threw the enormous glitter covered, ruby red slippers onto the ground beside and in front of us.  We carried them bad boys right to our apartment and proudly displayed them in the living room for Kati to come home and see.  They were 5' long and 2' wide red glitter covered styrofoam.  I laid in one as if it were a couch.  Thanks to our intoxication, we left a trail of glitter from the crime scene to our apartment and didn't look back.  The police followed our red glitter trail as if it were the yellow brick road!  It was all over the news.  When the cops got there and busted down our door it was Kati, Mike, Rebecca and Courtney who got arrested and sentenced with probation, community service and court fines.  Shortly after this mayhem we were evicted from the apartment and it was during this time Frankie and friends robbed us because we didn't have a front door and Kati had been stealing electricity from their apartment next door.  I think that's why Kati didn't let me slit Frankie's throat the night I went after him.  Ok, that AND because she didn't want him dead and me in jail.  I'm glad she stopped me. 
Anyways, Ayndria called to tell us this shit was on the news and it was only a matter of hours before the cops found us.  We all got together and decided to dispose of the evidence the next day.  I woke for work training the next morning and tried to wake everyone in the house before I left to start my 6am shift.  By 8am everyone asleep in our apartment was arrested.  That night all of their mugshots were on the news.  The police followed a trail of red glitter all the way to our apartment, just like Dorothy followed the yellow brick road!
Instant Local Celebrities.