In reply to: your greatest campus prank? posted by FightOnForMorrissey
His coin got stuck, so he picked up the whole thing and ran out to the car with it.
When we got home, he put it right in the center of the living room and spent about 45 minutes prying the top off so he could get the gum. We never did get the coinbox open, but he did get his original coin back.
After about a week, the machine was dropped off in the parking lot outside the establishment. Devoid of gumballs.
Witnessed the during & aftermath of: post-game (Irish loss) festivities in West Lafayette circa 1979 when a certain, future captain in the Marine Corps and his drunken comrades made their way to the second floor of a frat house. At the same time, some of us provided cover/diversion by mingling with the party-throwing Boilers below, who had stupidly invited us in.
The object of the captain's desire was the front end (grill, headlights and whatever else adorns the front-end of late model T-Birds) of a car which had, I believe, working/blinking headlights and was hung on the wall of someone's room. With precision and quickness, the front end was removed through the front window of the house onto a roof, where it was passed down under cover of darkness to aiders/abettors below and into the waiting get-away car.
That front end made it back to South Bend, where it remained for the better part of three years. We laughed, we cried, we drank some more.