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Cambridge UK was way ahead of that. And recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of a group that put an Austin Seven on the apex of the senate house roof. The authorities had a lot of bother getting it down again. See for example:

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In another particularly memorable Rag Week stunt a bunch of white coated students with clipboards separated an entire trainload of passengers from their shoes on the grounds of foot and mouth precautions. The press was there to greet the train and pay their dues. The passengers mostly commuters were a bit annoyed.

Regards, Martin Brown

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Funny how back then, in 1958, the dean sent a "congratulatory" case of champagne to the students he suspected were behind the plot, whereas the high school kid who did his own rendition of the "WE SUCK" flip-card sabotage in

2007 received thee days of suspension.

How times have changed...

Although I suppose the high school kid gets docks points for not being at all original.

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In ~1954 I emptied a restaurant across the alley from my Jr. High School with a smoke bomb. The principal (*) confiscated my materials, returned them to me at the end of the day with the admonition to NEVER bring them to school again.

In 1970 a similar stunt, same town, earned a kid 2 years in "juvvy" :-(

(*) Principal's name was William Boyd... so we'll see who, lurking here, is old enough to know why we called him Hopalong (to his face ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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I had an "unbreakable" Hopalong dinner plate when I was young enough to be at risk of breaking the family china.

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Richard Henry

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When I was in the Navy stationed at Pt. Mugu NAS, CA, in the early 7os we enlisted pukes suffered every year through the annual "Space Fair" airshow, held on what would otherwise be a 3-day weekend. The second time around, a buddy and I went into LA and had some buttons made up that said "SPACE FAIR" in large block letters and "SUCKS" in tiny print below. We were doing a brisk business selling them for 50 cents apiece and were almost out of stock when I got a call from the command leading chief at home one morning (I worked nights, my buddy worked days) demanding that I come to his office ASAP. When I got there, he had one of the buttons on his desk.

"Skidmore says that you and him are selling these." "Yes, chief". "Well, he's all out and the Captain wants three of them." Smiles and laughter all around, after which the Captain got his buttons on the house.

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Richard Henry

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Put a guy in a lab coat and clipboard, and he can get away with practically anything. ;-)

I had a job once where I'd come stumbling about 9:30 or so, pick up a clipboard, and just wander around the factory. Then once a week, I'd write the Great American Novel, AKA progress report. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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See "Milgram experiment".

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