Oh those Wacky Students
Jan. 18th, 2006 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonAnd the zany hamster-posting pranks they get up to...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,12891,1688415,00.html
Bizarre story. And possibly more disturbing because they're at Cambridge and, you'd *think* have at least some intellegence but with quotes like this, it appears not -
When asked why he gave a false name and address when purchasing the hamster, Jordan said: "Because I thought it would be a bit suspicious posting a hamster if I got caught."
Yes. Just a bit.
EDIT - according to the BBC they got fined and banned from owning animals for 10 years.
Personally I think this is going completely the wrong way. They should have been sent to work at a vets or animal shelter so they could see first hand what happens when people mistreat animals and hopefully learn a bit of empathy and feeling for something other than their over-priviledged selves.
Oh. And given a hefty kick up the arse too.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,12891,1688415,00.html
Bizarre story. And possibly more disturbing because they're at Cambridge and, you'd *think* have at least some intellegence but with quotes like this, it appears not -
When asked why he gave a false name and address when purchasing the hamster, Jordan said: "Because I thought it would be a bit suspicious posting a hamster if I got caught."
Yes. Just a bit.
EDIT - according to the BBC they got fined and banned from owning animals for 10 years.
Personally I think this is going completely the wrong way. They should have been sent to work at a vets or animal shelter so they could see first hand what happens when people mistreat animals and hopefully learn a bit of empathy and feeling for something other than their over-priviledged selves.
Oh. And given a hefty kick up the arse too.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:15 am (UTC)There are plenty of people at Cambridge who are exam-passing machines, but who don't actually have any brains.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:20 am (UTC)That would explain the politics of most cambridge students I've met, then. Also, woo! I get to use this icon.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 03:28 am (UTC)What Happens to the Brain of the Student? (And I'm including my younger self in this)
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:32 am (UTC)Are these brats being give NO moral guidance as they grow up? Are they really all just spoilt self-centred dimwits growing up in a vacuum where they are the only thing of any importance?
Bring Back the Birch! (See, it makes me come over all Letter To the Times).
Incredibly cute icon tho ;)
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:36 am (UTC)And no we weren't exactly saints by any means. But we did generally know stealing signs (etc) was a Bad Thing and there's a bit of a difference between sticking eggs and ham to the geology building [1] and shoving a hamster in the post.
[1] It seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:39 am (UTC)Or, you know, not even thought about doing it in the first place.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:39 am (UTC)orcaraerials
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:42 am (UTC)soiwon'tmentionwheeliebinsortrafficconesorsuspiciousblueglassvasethingsorsausagesandbicyclesorcaraerials
but you're right. we'd never have posted an animal.
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Date: 2006-01-18 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-18 07:54 am (UTC)RUCPSNI fascists! Typical broken promises and political policing at its WORST.no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 08:02 am (UTC)How'se the beard these days Gerry (sorry got a bit confused there)
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Date: 2006-01-18 09:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-18 11:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 11:26 am (UTC)They try to buy a hamster, and are refused because they're drunk. They go back again sober, and get one.
Yep, sounds premeditated to me.
Fuckwits. I just hope any future employers search for their names in Google and find these articles.
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Date: 2006-01-18 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-18 01:54 pm (UTC)Actually, so far as I know, the only occurrence of "Hannah Kilpatrick" that applies to me is a translation of "the marriage of figaro" into English which I submitted to the Aria Database, so it could be worse...
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Date: 2006-01-18 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 02:20 am (UTC)oh no! bearer of fungi!
ok ok it's a bit tangential but....
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Date: 2006-01-19 02:22 am (UTC)*peers*
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Date: 2006-01-19 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 02:59 am (UTC)Green eggs and ham!
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Date: 2006-01-19 03:20 am (UTC)being too busy praying to the FSM
OH btw the FSM car thingies are on their way from the USofA!
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Date: 2006-01-19 03:33 am (UTC)ps yay FSM
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Date: 2006-01-19 03:43 am (UTC)Were they green eggs and ham?
The vase and cone
I might have known,
But the eggs and ham,
Unsure I am.
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Date: 2006-01-19 03:53 am (UTC)grew legs
and ran away
the ham
Oh F888k what's going on here! Yet again I have inadvertently sent an email that was intended for someone else to LJ! There's something going on here. PS Adelpha you will get an utterly irrelevant email thing soon, sorry argh
the ham
was calm
and slept all day
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Date: 2006-01-19 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 02:16 am (UTC)it offered pasta.
(actually can't remember what was in it)
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Date: 2006-01-20 02:21 am (UTC)