10 Great Geek Pranks

 

For many years now a rivalry has been brewing between the students of MIT and Cal-tech.  The two schools have been involved for a long standing and occasionally escalating series of pranks.  Determined to out-do their opponents, the students from each school have orchestrated some amazing and geeky pranks over the years.  Time.com currently has a great list of the Top 10 Pranks pulled off by the schools.  These pranks include things like turing a giant dome on a campus into R2-D2, getting the opposing school's fans to flash cards that say their school's name during a football game and my personal favorite:

 

During Hollywood's centennial in 2003, Caltech's Prank Club tackled the famous Hollywood sign with cherry pickers, large sheets of black and white plastic, and duct tape. They hung just enough plastic so that from a distance, the sign appeared to read "Caltech." "Hollywood is still mad about that," says Autumn Looijen, author of the prank history, Legends of Caltech III: Techer In the Dark. The sign assailants' names never surfaced, but their work has become famous on campus. (Both Caltech and MIT tout their students' pranks on their admissions websites.)

 

Never understimate determined geeks with nothing better to do than cause geeky havoc!