“caltech” cannon stolen
hackers at mit stole the cannon that caltech stole took with permission from a prep school (more here), and that had previously been stolen in almost exactly the same manner twenty years ago by students of harvey mudd college.
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Quite an amusing story of a great prank :)
Beginning Saturday the 8th of April, the first band of Caltech students boarded a plane to the east coast. They were armed with only the determination to restore the honor that MIT hackers had attempted to strip away with the theft of the Fleming Cannon two weeks earlier ( MIT's website ). These 23 students and seven alumni from Fleming Hovse, one of Caltech's undergraduate houses, met with little resistance as they carted away the symbol that they flew 3000 miles to retrieve. In place of the 130-year-old antique, Flems left a toy cannon with a note saying, "Here's something more your size" Fleming's website ). While MIT students were distracted with this new gift, a few of the Caltech team left their signature in big red letters in the windows of the Green Building. This series of pranks began with Caltech pranking MIT at their Campus Preview Weekend in 2005 and will by no means end here. ( Current Scoreboard ) Watch out for more pranking in the future!
Quite an amusing story of a great prank :)