student pranks
Another story from my time as a student.

We had a spare room in our flat in first year which we'd fill with stuff we'd collect from our way home from the pub. This included various tyres, gnomes, and once we even got a bus stop in there. However, there was one particular night on the way home when me and a friend of mine spied a broken security light, still attached to a wall about 6 ft up. We thought this would make a welcome addition to our museum, and so I tried to wrench it from the wall. I pulled it left, right, up, down - nothing was going to dislodge it. So I sulked and walked away a bit, gazing at the clear starry sky while my larger friend took his turn at wrenching this light from the wall. He failed too.

God must have spoken to me while I was looking at the stars, because I looked at that light fitting with a fiery rage in my belly - I wanted this artifact for my museum! So I strode with drunken bravado up to the light, wedged both hands behind it, lifted my left foot up beside it, lifted my right foot up beside it (bear in mind this light was about 6 ft up), and then wrenched it.

It wasn't a very good addition to the museum, in all honesty, but my flatmate still speaks of the day he saw me turn into a human cruise missile
(witterquick, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 16:25, 1 reply)

you failed because...
the correct way to pull the light would have been, up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A
(manbear84, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 18:21, closed)