My father is one of the two pranksters named in the article. The diagram of how to get the car up and over the edge of the roof was the big secret and closely resembles the sketches he showed me as a child. The article doesn't say that they had to get the car up in 20 minutes because of the regular beat of the local policeman.
My family were all sworn to secrecy as they had agreed to keep the mystery up - I went to the same college and had to play dumb, even though the authorities had a good idea of who had done it.
We revisited the college recently and sneaked up the tower to go over some of the more obscure details.
I have actually played a couple of fairly major jokes in my time, but this page isn't the place to talk about them.
I heard that once some pranksters got sent down for soap-bombing the fountain in the engineering department, just after their finals. Hence 4 years work and no degree. The wrath of the university can be more scary that the police in many ways.
My family were all sworn to secrecy as they had agreed to keep the mystery up - I went to the same college and had to play dumb, even though the authorities had a good idea of who had done it.
We revisited the college recently and sneaked up the tower to go over some of the more obscure details.
I have actually played a couple of fairly major jokes in my time, but this page isn't the place to talk about them.