Tuesday morning, Adam Eisele and his roommates awoke to find a dead squirrel cooking in the small propane grill they keep on the front porch of their Evergreen Avenue home.
One of the four cars in their driveway had also been toilet papered.
The engineering junior, his roommates and neighbors were a small sect of people who experienced Devils Night in East Lansing firsthand this year.
It wasnt really a big deal, he said. At first we thought someone was pissed at us, but then we saw our neighbors had been hit too. We havent had anything else like that happen to us so Im sure it was just for Devils Night.
We all just thought it was kinda funny.
Eisele said his neighbors got it a lot worse - one of the houses was egged, and two houses across the street had their cars covered in ketchup and mustard.
None of the four homes reported the incident to East Lansing police.
Only two property destruction calls were made during between 9 p.m. Monday and 7 a.m. Tuesday, East Lansing police Lt. Kevin Daley said. Starbucks Coffee, 401 E. Grand River Ave., was spray painted and a residence was toilet papered.
The pseudo-holiday is not usually a problem in the city of East Lansing, especially when it falls on a nonparty night or week night, Daley said. Since Devils Night fell on a Monday this year, there were few problems.
There have been some instances in the past but not this year, he said. Its not like St. Patricks Day where everyone seems to turn Irish for a day and gets the night off.
Thats when a lot of real destruction takes place.
Daley credits the lack of participation to students busy working on schoolwork and not having enough free time to plan destruction or carry it out.
MSU police Detective Tony Willis reported similar slow crime patterns Monday night.
We didnt have any reported damage, he said. It was pretty quiet around here; it usually is. Weve never really had a problem on Devils Night, its just the same old, same old.
Lansing police Lt. Ray Hall said Lansing residents traditionally do not participate in Devils Night festivities either.
Devils Night hasnt been a bad night for the city of Lansing, so we dont even really increase patrols in the area very much, he said. We usually just all watch the TV to see what happened in Detroit this year and watch parts of the city burn.
But if the past few years are any indication, even the problems in Detroit will be minimal.
In 1994, 354 fires burned in Detroit, and last year there were 123. Numbers for this year have not been released, but seemed to be on track with 1999 numbers, said city spokesman S.R. Boland.
In an effort to curb arsons, 30,000 Detroit residents have been patrolling their neighborhoods as part of Angels Night, a citywide opposition to Devils Night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.