Last Saturday, a fence surrounding a townhouse on the 3200 block of O Street was vandalized, according to a post on the Georgetown listserv.

This is about when we figured that the poster, Robert Laycock, would accuse Georgetown students of the damage. Let’s just say he surprised us.

“[S]everal individuals, probably inebriated, pulled off the wrought iron railing on the steps leading to the front door of the house,” Laycock, who moonlights as the treasurer of the Citizen’s Association of Georgetown, wrote. “The noise woke up almost everyone on our block.”

He added that the townhouse’s elderly residents, who did not respond to our contact attempts, “depend on the rail for support going up and down the steps.”

In summary: Georgetown residents’ property was damaged on a weekend night. The incident disturbed a number of sleeping neighbors. Another resident, who is involved with a group that isn’t on friendly terms with the University, wrote about the incident without immediately blaming students.

Shit, you guys. Is this a trap, somehow?

Photo: Robert Laycock

At around 4 p.m. this afternoon a fire started in a rowhouse on the 3000 block of O Street, according Fox D.C.  Firefighters were able to put out the blaze, but found a woman dead on the first floor of the house.

According to Fox D.C., the cause of the fire and the identity of the woman are not yet known.

Georgetown resident and blogger Carol Joynt, the former owner of Nathans, was able to get pictures of the blaze, and believes the victim is a “neighborhood eccentric” named Nadia.

According to Joynt:

Her next door neighbor, Barry Freundel, the rabbi of Kesher Israel, discovered the fire and was out in the street with his family yelling “fire.” Someone kicked in the front door, but there was too much smoke to go in and they shouted up at the house, hoping she would emerge. But there was nothing. Just more smoke and flames shooting out of the roof.

Photo from Carol Joynt’s blog.