RE: MIT Pranksters Nab Caltech Cannon

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 OK, isn't this just plain illegal and called stealing?  Yah yah, I've played my part in a few pranks in my time, I 
know how it is...

 But, now that I'm almost double the age of those that pulled off this prank, wouldn't they be surprised if the feds 
knocked on their door for stealing, transporting stolen goods across state lines, forgery, etc etc

  I know it's all in good fun.... Don't flame me....


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 4:29 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] MIT Pranksters Nab Caltech Cannon

Via The LA Times.

[snip]

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.

[snip]

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

- ferg


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