MIT Pranksters Nab Caltech Cannon
Caltech’s cannon was purloined by pranksters and turned up in front
of MIT’s Green Building Thursday morning.
Image source: LA Times / Grant Jordan / The Tech
of MIT’s Green Building Thursday morning.
Image source: LA Times / Grant Jordan / The Tech
Arin Gincer writes in The LA Times:
In the ongoing battle of the nerds between Caltech and MIT, the latest volley has been fired from a 130-year-old cannon.More here.
Actually, the latest volley is a cannon.
Massachusetts pranksters, posing as professional movers, stole the beloved Fleming Cannon — traditionally fired at each year's commencement — from the Pasadena campus last week.
On Thursday it popped up, pointed toward Pasadena and adorned with an oversized Massachusetts Institute of Technology school ring, at the Cambridge campus next to a plaque referring to Caltech as "its previous owners."
The plaque explained that the students created the phony "Howe & Ser Moving Company" and used fake work-order forms to get past Caltech campus security guards. After that, a real shipping company toted the 2-ton relic across the country.
posted by Fergie @ 4/08/2006 01:28:00 PM
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