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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