MIT Pranksters Nab Caltech Cannon

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The LA Times.

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In the ongoing battle of the nerds between Caltech and MIT, the latest volley has been fired from a 130-year-old cannon.

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.

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More here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-statue7apr07,0,2096065.story

- ferg


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