A note threatening vandalism and signed by "the management" was placed on the windshield of a UNM student who parked in the former Sigma Chi fraternity house parking lot Tuesday.
Kathleen Williams, a UNM senior, said she filed a police report with UNMPD after discovering the note at about 3:15 p.m.
"They advised us not to park there anymore," Williams said.
The city condemned the house for safety violations and the fraternity's UNM charter was revoked April 20, 2002, after its national council reviewed violations sent to it by the Dean of Students office.
The house, at 1855 Sigma Chi Rd., is now owned by Grubb & Ellis real estate and is available for lease.
Williams said she parked in the lot at about 9 a.m. and thought her car would be fine because she says people park there all the time now that the property no longer belongs to the fraternity.
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"It's basically like first come, first serve," she said. "There is no more Sigma Chi."
Representatives from Grubb & Ellis real estate were not available for comment Tuesday.
Williams said she gave the police a copy of the note and that it said, "This vehicle will be damaged the next time that I see it in my parking lot. I know who you are and I give you this note as a warning. Please consider it your final one. The management."
Police said there was a similar note, though it was more derogatory and less threatening, left on the windshield of another person's car parked in the lot about a month and a half ago. But that person did not notify campus police, only with Parking and Transportation Services.
UNM Police Department officer Mark Medina said he does not know why a note was left on Williams' car and not any other vehicles parked in the lot.
Campus police say they are not looking into the note left on Williams' windshield. They said they just advised her to park somewhere else.
Williams, who is an insurance agent, said she thinks that if her car got vandalized, it would be the property owner's liability.
"I'm like the wrong person's car to smash up," she said.
Williams said she thinks she knows who might have left the note, but she did not want to tell police because she did not want to accuse anyone.
"I recognized the handwriting," she said.
