IanBest College Pranks of All Time
November 10th 2010 00:23
It's generally believed to be a rite of passage for leaving high school and college students to concoct an adventurous prank to leave their mark on the establishment. The options for such pranks are endless, but some will live on in infamy as the greatest pranks of all time. Below are the top 5, click on the Huffington Post link above to see all 10!
In 1961, 100,000 football fans converged on Pasadena, CA for the Rose Bowl match between the University of Washington Huskies and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. Things got interesting at halftime, when a group of Cal Tech students crashed the occasion by altering the University of Washington's crowd flip-cards. As a result of an elaborate prank Washington fans unknowingly displayed cards that read "CAL TECH" during the routine. To this day, this prank is widely considered one of the most famous in college sports.
In 1933, staffers from the Harvard Lampoon managed to steal the Sacred Cod, a five-foot long wooden fish that hangs from the ceiling of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. As the Museum of Hoaxes reports, the theft of the cod of was quite simple: "Three Lampoon staffers walked into the state house armed with a pair of clippers and a flower box. They waited until a discreet moment when no tourists were around. Then they quickly clipped the wires holding up the fish, tucked it away in their flower box, and disappeared." To prevent the cod from being stolen again, authorities raised the it six inches higher.
One of the most famous college prank schools, the Massachusetts school is famous for its history of jokes involving the MIT Dome. The most legendary case was back in 1994 when students installed an MIT campus police car on top of the dome -- which is 15 stories high. The clever pranksters built the frame of the car in pieces on top of the dome. It's now a tradition for copycats follow up the trick by putting all kinds of strange objects on top of it, like a firetruck and a piano.
In 1979, the student body government of University of Wisconsin was led by the infamous Pail & Shovel Party. Their platform? Use the the school's budget for art projects and wacky pranks. Their masterpiece was putting a fake Statue of Liberty in the nearby (and, at the time, frozen) Lake Mendota, placing half of Lady Liberty's head and torch on top of it.
The Pail & Shovel party struck again in 1979 by putting 1,008 fake plastic pink flamingos on the front lawn of campus landmark Bascom Hill. By afternoon, students had plucked most of the flamingos from the lawn for their own keeping. Flaming-planting soon became a tradition on campus.
Great Rose Bowl Hoax, California Institute Of Technology
ft Of The Sacred Cod, Harvard University
The Great Dome, MIT
Lady Liberty On Lake Mendota, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
k Flamingos On Bascom Hill, University Of Wisconsin-Madison
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