our jim spellman is in iowa city, he's been looking into this story. it sounds like what may be normal in china is going to be very bizarre in iowa. tell us a little bit more about this strange case. >> reporter: sure, erin. this woman wanted to sublet her apartment. instead of using craigslist or something like that, she used a chinese language website. it's very common here for the chinese students to deal amongst themselves, one apartment one student to the next. this man, tang, shows up. instead of wanting to sublet the apartment, he comes with handcuffs, forces her into her bedroom, stuffs a towel into her mouth and sexually assaults her. not only that, he wants to record the moment to be able to influence her from going to the police. take a listen. >> took photographs? >> yeah. he ended up taking photographs of her in compromising positions under the premise that if she made a report to the police department, that he would put those out on the internet. >> reporter: and so what he wanted to do, erin, is take advantage of this trust that exists a

jim spellman is outfront with the latest. i understand there's a little bit of a smell there?rter: yeah, indeed. listen, this is the closest thing stoners have to a holiday. imagine this as stoners new year's eve and this is their times square. cu boulder at the quad. officials here say enough. every year they get about 12,000 people coming here, lighting up right in the middle of campus. this year they're saying we want to squash this. we're going to close the campus to outsiders and do everything we can to make this quad that's become ground zero for these marijuana enthusiasts as inhospitalable as possible. now, i understand you're going to put down some fertilizer. >> yes, we've got some fish emulsifier that seeps into the turf and provides nutrients. it's made of deep sea fish that feed on plankton and it's very smelly. >> reporter: it sounds smelly. >> it's very smelly. >> reporter: you're going to have to really come and smoke marijuana on the quad to put up with barriers, police restrictions and smelly fish fertilizer. >> what we're trying to do is create a disincentiv

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