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Post number 5695

mecawilson — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:31:28 -0800

Engineering students hang VW Beetle from Golden Gate Bridge -- I vaguely remember hearing about some various CalTech annual pranks over the years - but this one took some effort. So much for non-chalantly transporting a rusty Beetle across the border anymore...

By: deftone

deftone — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:46:05 -0800

"The pranksters could be fined and ordered to perform community service." They've been doing this here in Vancouver for years. The cops here usually just laugh it off and try to figure out how to take it down.

By: darren

darren — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:11:28 -0800

I hope there were no tour boats under the bridge when they dropped it....

By: gi_wrighty

gi_wrighty — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 14:24:28 -0800

Brown, 22, would not say which of his classmates pulled the prank. "They still have to get across the border, you know,'' he said. Well, it made me chuckle... :)

By: cCranium

cCranium — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:26:20 -0800

deftone: While I think that laughing it off is a good idea, doing something in the University's home town (where it's been done for up to 19 years previously :-) is a far cry from doing it in a different country. Hopefully everyone in the class clams up about it though.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:56:24 -0800

darren, the Coast Guard performed quarantine duties while bridge workers figured out how to cut it loose. This article, like the TV news tonight, would leave you thinking it was an intact Beetle, when really it's just the unibody shell.

By: kaefer

kaefer — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:59:56 -0800

In high school, a bunch of us buried two beetles nose-up in the lawn in front of the principals office. There's something about vee-dubs that make them perfect for these kinds of stunts...

By: evixir

evixir — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:08:44 -0800

I suppose it would be superfluous to mention the IHTFP hacker folks at MIT whose exploits are hilariously detailed therein... Americans are clever too, damnit! No VWs, though.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 06 Feb 2001 00:21:59 -0800

There was the time I tried to help a friend with her flat tire. The lug nuts on the wheel were frozen, and I was using a cross rim wrench [bet you didn't know what that's called! aka a star wrench or just cross-shaped wrench these days] to loosen them. When I put enough of my weight on the wrench, the entire nose of the car went up in the air.

By: baylink

baylink — Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:09:09 -0800

No, Evi, but they *did* put a cop car up on top of the dome...