Results: A Real Cliffhanger...
Published on 05/05/2018
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A blue Honda Civic with its interior stripped out was found dangling from a cable high above the Don Valley River beneath bridge in Toronto Wednesday, and police are completely baffled as to why and how it got there. After determining the car was not part of a movie shoot, which was the first thought (no permits were filed) the vehicle was cut down and Toronto Police are now investigating the mysterious incident. Here are a few possible scenarios. Which sounds the most plausible?
Still believe it could be part of a movie shoot, just without the paperwork being filed
10%
186 votes
A prank by graduating university students to celebrate their graduation
40%
719 votes
A rather odd but effective art installation
6%
113 votes
No clue!
44%
789 votes
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The end of university or college often brings out the "wild" side of students. Why university students feel the need to carry out elaborate pranks is hard to understand (remember that we were all young and foolish once) but some of the pranks have certainly been major (yes pun intended) undertakings. Have you heard about any of these prior to this survey?
In 1961, the Caltech student body organized a prank at the Rose Bowl that swiped the Washington Huskies' plan of having people spell out cheers with cards and made it their own. During halftime at the big game, the crowd of hundreds spelled out 11 pro-Huskies messages as intended, but the 12th message was flipped to show the Caltech beaver mascot and then spell out the school's name.
6%
113 votes
Visitors who had come for the annual MIT Campus Preview Week in 2010 found a stunningly detailed replica of a gentlemen's club lounge, complete with a pool cue, billiards and what appeared to be a cat napping in a leather easy chair, with one small detail -- All of the furniture and props were hanging upside down from the Media Arch.
5%
92 votes
Back in the sixties, a group of bored University of Arizona college students decided to prompt a scare in Tuscon with some man-made UFO's. The problem was, they decided to use a combination of laundry bags, coat hangers, candles…and natural gas. Luck was on the pranksters' side that night — no one got burned to a crisp and the cops graciously declined to make any arrests.
4%
73 votes
In 1958, a group of students decided that the University of Southern California's Tommy Trojan statue would look a heck of a lot better doused in manure. Not satisfied with an old tractor or pickup truck, they rented a helicopter to make the big delivery. Unfortunately for them, their cargo was sucked up into the helicopter's rotor blades, splattering a well-deserved dollop of karma onto the would-be pranksters.
2%
39 votes
In 2012, students at MIT devised the idea of turning the campus' Green Building into one big playable Tetris game. After four years of planning, the hackers were able to construct what the MIT student newspaper called the "holy grail of hacks." Through a complicated system of wirelessly controlled LED lights, the Tetris hackers transformed 153 of the building's windows into the falling colored blocks, controlling them with players at a podium.
4%
69 votes
In 1978, a group of departing seniors decided to line up more than 1,000 plastic pink flamingos on the front lawn of Madison's campus of the University of Wisconsin. The Class of 1978 started a tradition that continues to this day.
5%
98 votes
In 2010, students draped pre-decorated sheets over the Goodsell Observatory on Minnesota's Carleton College creating a giant replica of R2-D2. Not only that, they added sound effects, making it even sound like the real thing.
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45 votes
None
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1465 votes
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And as far as the dangling car in Toronto today, that prank isn't all that original. Such incidents are almost annual tradition at the University of British Columbia's engineering school. Students there continue to find new and unusual places to stash a classic Volkswagen Beetle. In one instance, a Bug was suspended from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in February 2001. Did your university or college have any elaborate end of year prank?
No
49%
880 votes
Yes
9%
170 votes
Did not go to university/college
42%
757 votes
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