MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 6, 2006 @05:05AM from the those-wacky-nerds dept.

Bob Hearn writes "Some Slashdotters might remember the story Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend from a year ago. MIT Hackers have gotten even. Sometime in the middle of the night, Caltech's famous cannon appeared at the base of MIT's Green building. A plaque in front of it reads: 'CALTECH CANNON April 6, 2006 MIT hackers posing as the Howe & Ser Moving Company Appropriated this cannon on March 28, 2006. It later appeared on MIT's campus with the addition of a large brass rat made of gold-plated aluminum. In honor of its previous owners, the cannon points towards Padadena, CA.' The brass rat (MIT ring) is really a rather impressive bit of aluminum machining. Harvey Mudd College previously stole the cannon, in 1986, but later had to give it back."

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Re:Those wacky Latin scholars by n9uxu8 · 2006-04-06 05:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

See...now I read it differently. From their web page (http://howeandser.com/ it sounds more like "How We Answer" (the previous Caltech prank)...one moving company...two linguistic jokes...funny guys those engineers.

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Re:Wikipedia already updated by Bob+Hearn · 2006-04-06 06:04 · Score: 4, Interesting

Wikipedia was already updated even before the Slashdot submission. The really interesting bit is this change history of that page. The current text replaces this:

"It is rumored that Harvey Mudd will attempt to steal the cannon again this year in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their original theft. Be warned. Thankfully Dabney house has planned ahead, and relocated the cannon to a safehouse in Compton."

So, was this "relocation" the actual MIT appropriation?