RE: MIT Pranksters Nab Caltech Cannon

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

I thought there was a standard "college prank" exception to all larceny
statutes

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
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Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 10:27 AM
To: fergdawg () netzero net; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] MIT Pranksters Nab Caltech Cannon

 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


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
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