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Stealth Force Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the happy-new-year-now-go-back-to-bed dept.

YetAnotherName writes "Geeky college pranks are not just the purview of big name science and technology schools. Now that statutes of limitations have expired, Stealth Force Beta, a group of 'constructive vandals' who operated at New Mexico Tech, tell of their exploits. From crawling around steam tunnels, to mounting complex radio surveillance, to getting trapped in elevator shafts, the stories are inspirational, funny, and probably familiar in some way to many /. readers."

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  1. Re:Big schools still have the better pranks, thoug by Floyd+Turbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    The MIT portion of which is well documented here. Great stuff.

  2. Re:Secret Society Eh? by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Groups of FBI, CIA, WhatHaveYou"

    That's what the mean by "statute of limitations". In the US, most crimes have to be prosecuted within a certian number of years of their comission. If they aren't, they statute of limitations runs out and you can no longer be prosecuted for them.

  3. Re:REAL GENIUS by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Informative
    here's a link to a photo of the caltech rosebowl flash card prank:
    here And a detailed explanation of how it was done here


    here's a write-up of the mcdonalds contest scam here


    other caltech stunts including the rosebowl score board prank, and the great barberpole theft. here

    --
    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
  4. They were lucky!!! by cwsulliv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out this page:
    http://www.ncfelonymurder.org/janet.html
    to see how one stupid prank gone awry earned a young woman life imprisonment without possibility of parole.