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Three young people in Florida, barely out of their teens, have just been sentenced to 15 years each for removing a stop sign from an intersection. The defendants sobbed, and even the judge evinced regret, but everyone seems to agree that stealing stop signs is a particularly heinous prank. In this case, three other young people were killed when they drove through the signless intersection into an eight-ton Mack truck...
...here's another tip for anyone contemplating the old stop-sign prank: don't do the sign removing yourself. Call yourself Superior Sign Relocation Inc., and hire others to do the manual labor so you can always point proudly to your contribution as a pillar of the economy and a creator of jobs. And if you wonder how you'll make the money to meet payroll, that's easy: you'll sell the purloined signs, of course, to the millions of homeowners who, like so many of my law-abiding, homeowning neighbors, favor them as decorations for their basement...
Lewis remembers a prank he and his fellow editors played during the 1947 Harvard football game: a parody of The Dartmouth distributed in Hanover the day of the game...
...there was contrary push to make the most of our limited time academically. (There was the incident of the water-filled milk bottles dropped down the entry way, which evoked one of Mr. Perkins' best memos, urbanely testy, but on the whole for-giving. But that was the anomalous prank.) The pre-war dictum of "There C's and a D and keep pit of the papers" was I think in abeyance, and my prevailing memory is of long-night struggles at my roommate's portable typewriter, which was quieter than...
House crew team members cutting through the courtyard in front of the Charles Hotel around 6 a.m. saw the body hanging from the tree. Many said they thought it was a prank and did not realize until later it was not a mannequin...