Masons assess damage after standoff.Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard Members of the Eugene Masonic Lodge are preparing to clean up the mess left by a man who trashed trashed adj. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Our Living Language Expressions for intoxication are among those that best showcase the creativity of slang. the 32-year-old building during a nearly four-hour standoff with Eugene police and the Metro SWAT team. Broken glass, damaged furniture and Masonic artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. littered the floor Monday at Lodge No. 11 on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A gray dust covered nearly every surface, left there when Daniel Gene Schaefer, 24, of Eugene allegedly discharged several fire extinguishers inside Saturday. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if he was targeting Masonry or just `things,' ' said Max Schumacher, former state grand master and now building agent at the lodge. "He violated everything that we hold dear," he said. The 175 members of the lodge can't begin the cleanup until an insurance adjuster assesses the damage at the building near Autzen Stadium The stadium is tucked between the Willamette River and Coburg Hills. The uniquely shaped bowl blends in with the wooded Eugene landscape. The shape also allows for unique acoustics, making it one of the loudest stadiums in NCAA Football for its capacity. . Schumacher expected that to happen today. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , they cataloged the damage and said they were grateful about the things that weren't destroyed: wall-mounted photos of grand masters reaching back to the late 1800s, large glass display cases holding precious mementos, a photo album containing an image of the city's founder, Eugene Skinner, the first man initiated into the lodge when it was formed in 1856, three years before Oregon got its statehood state·hood n. The status of being a state, especially of the United States, rather than being a territory or dependency. . "It could have been worse, it's true," Schumacher said. "I guess there's always a silver lining." Schaefer allegedly broke into the lodge Saturday afternoon and told police he was armed with a shotgun. During the more than three hours he kept police at bay, he smashed century-old furniture, burned an antique book, shredded the U.S. flag, urinated on the carpet and used a 2-by-4 to damage doors, walls and windows, Schumacher said. Police used flash grenades and pepper spray to force Schaefer out of the building. He was arrested and jailed on burglary and criminal mischief charges, but he was released the next day because of jail overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . CAPTION(S): The Eugene Masonic Lodge is littered with damaged furniture and debris after an intruder vandalized the lodge and held police at bay for three hours. |
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