When it rains... it...uhh....rains... uhh... rains head-scrathing "wait, what just happendz"?

Today I was fined $25.00 for hiding my Resident Advisior's laundry basket. I was fined under the contention that this was an act of "theft," after I appologized and returned the basket, (dirty socks, uderwear and T-shirts), all in tact. So...not only was I fined $25.00 for "stealing" a laudry basket, full of treasures I'm sure, but they didn't even let me keep some of the sweet, sweet pay dirt. Clearly my goal was to fashion the pungent undergarments into a noose so I could have some excitement while I gratified myself, right? That's not my America. A land free of religious persecution, a land of opportunities for the upstart hard-worker, and a land where a resident can eat a reuben sandwhich made with chipped beef, rye bread, and his R.A.'s dirty tighty-whities?-- wasn't this what the Cuban Missle Crisis was all about?