Best College Pranks of the Past 25 Years

1. Fire Truck on MIT Dome - On September 11, 2006, to mark the 5th anniversary of 9/11, students at MIT in Boston, managed to put a real 25 foot antique fire engine on top of the famous MIT dome. Fortunately for MIT, the perpetrators left instructions about how the prank was done and how to best get it down.
   
   
   
   
2. Gabe Pruitt wants to "c u so bad" - Prior to an important game between U.C. Berkeley and USC, Cal fans had posed as a UCLA student online, named Victoria, who Pruitt agreed to meet once he returned to L.A. Before the big game, he wrote to Victoria: "I want to c u so bad." When Pruitt took his first trip to the free throw line early in the game, the Cal student section hollered in unison: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA," and then yelled out a telephone number. Pruitt glanced back at the crowd in horror and bewilderment before missing his free throws. USC lost by 11 points.
   


3. We Suck! - Students at Yale pulled this prank at one of the Yale / Harvard football games in 2004. Colored signs were passed out to Harvard fans that were told that when held up, would say, "Go Harvard".
   
   



4. UW time capsule from '50s reveals "extras" from '70s - A "Time Capsul" that was sealed in the 1950's at the University of Washington was opened 50 years later but somehow the contents managed to increase. The original reel-to-reel films, newspapers and other items were still inside but other items were added over the years including Playboy magazines from the late '70's and early '80's, woman's panties, clip-on ties and nearly petrified Twinkie. The time capsule was locked away, implanted in the wall of the Communications Building, with an inscription that said it should be opened on the 100th anniversary of the first journalism classes at the university. The department was planning an event to reveal to the general public the original contents of the capsule. The more recent additions to the capsule will be part of that display.
   
   
5. Hey Teach! A Lecture Musical Prank!!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. NCAA Overturns Stanford's Loss - In 1982, after Berkeley's football team beat Stanford with a wild last-second kickoff return that involved five laterals, Stanford retaliated by replacing Cal's student newspaper with an impostor edition that claimed NCAA officials had overturned the touchdown and made Stanford the winner. Click Here for the fake edition proclaiming the news.
   
   




7. College Prank Gone Wrong
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. College President's First Day on Job - It was the first day for MIT's new President and the students wanted to welcome him... well, right?? When the new president got off the elevator at the floor that he thought was where his new office was, he found nothing but a hall with a large student bulletin board. As it turned out, students covered the door to his office with the bulletin board.