[Gh0stRider]

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - It's a prank that happens every year, but things didn't go exactly as planned for UBC Engineering students this morning. Five of the them have been arrested and could be facing charges.

Just after 4 a.m., Vancouver Police were called to the Second Narrows Bridge after getting calls about a vehicle being lowered off the bridge. Turns out the resourceful engineering students suspended a hollowed out Volkswagen Beetle off the side of the span.

Constable Lindsey Houghton says Vancouver Police showed up they arrested the five people and charges of mischief over $5,000 are now being recommended.

Highway crews were called out with special cranes, rigging equipment and staff to try and raise the vehicle, but unfortunately the cord suspending the car snapped and the shell has ended up at the bottom of the Burrard Inlet.

[ws6ta]

haha my first cousin is in the ubc engineering program I wonder if she got arrested :lol

[Culture_Vulture]

classic prank not so classic anymore eh

[Gh0stRider]

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[quasi]

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - It's a prank that happens every year, but things didn't go exactly as planned for UBC Engineering students this morning. Five of the them have been arrested and could be facing charges.

Just after 4 a.m., Vancouver Police were called to the Second Narrows Bridge after getting calls about a vehicle being lowered off the bridge. Turns out the resourceful engineering students suspended a hollowed out Volkswagen Beetle off the side of the span.

Constable Lindsey Houghton says Vancouver Police showed up they arrested the five people and charges of mischief over $5,000 are now being recommended.

Highway crews were called out with special cranes, rigging equipment and staff to try and raise the vehicle, but unfortunately the cord suspending the car snapped and the shell has ended up at the bottom of the Burrard Inlet.

Now was the cable the students or the crane? If it was the students they fail.

[Rikaro]

pretty priceless I must say

[asian_speedster]

Fail.

I think i'll got bug my engineering friends about this
nice pictures

[CaptFiero]

Na the fail is they should have let the students than knew what they are doing get the car back up. Hmm, Engineering Students or City Workers, it doesn't take much thought on who I'd choose to get something moved.

[slammer111]

Eh, 90% chances they'll walk. VPD and RCMP expect this every year, and it's not like they're damaging anything.

Anyone know which dept pulled this one off? :D

[InvisibleSoul]

FAIL!

[unit]

i always wonder why it takes engineers to hang a empty car shell off a bridge.

sounds like something anyone can do as long as they're stupid enough and have the right equipment.

[pandalove]

don't these engineer kids have anything else to do around this time then pull pranks like this ... aren't midterms coming up ? fucking university students still doing pranks liek this wasting valuable police man power to arrest their ass .... then wasting tax payers moneys to take that car off the bridge then haul it away... are these what university kids should be doing ? fucking pathetic

[Sodium]

And I thought they would finally think of something more original this year....

[q0192837465]

hhahah, it was pouring rain yesterday too. I'd rather stay home & wath TV.

[91civicZC]

Na the fail is they should have let the students than knew what they are doing get the car back up. Hmm, Engineering Students or City Workers, it doesn't take much thought on who I'd choose to get something moved.


A lot of shit looks real good on paper, unfortunately just doesn’t actually work in real life.

Who would I trust? Guys who have been on the job 20+ years, or snot nosed engineer know it alls who havent even graded yet? 20 year vets all the way.

I’ve dealt with my fair share of “engineers”, and very few of them have earned my respect. If you havent done it off the drawing board or out side of solid works, you havent done it, period. Get you boots dirty or your knuckles bloody, then Ill listen to you. Until then, let me talk to someone who has actually done what the engineering students and grads talk about doing.

[ZiG-87]

haha. morons. +1 ^

[Lomac]

don't these engineer kids have anything else to do around this time then pull pranks like this ... aren't midterms coming up ? fucking university students still doing pranks liek this wasting valuable police man power to arrest their ass .... then wasting tax payers moneys to take that car off the bridge then haul it away... are these what university kids should be doing ? fucking pathetic

It's something the engineering students do almost every year. A few years back a bunch of kids from UBC went down to the Golden Gate Bridge in California and hung a Beetle from the bridge. It's not like this is anything new... it's been going on for ages.

[rb]

I guess UBC lowered the entrance requirements to their Engineering program :p

[maxxxboost]

LOL!
Well, atleast they still got some camera time. hahaha good or bad.

I wonder who narked on them.

[m4k4v4li]

maybe some sfu engineering students

[Vansterdam]

/fail

[JHuJHu]

/facepalm

[johny]

I hope they get charged good... throwing a few hundred pound object tied to a rope off the side of the bridge takes the knowledge of a 5 year old, not an engineer.

go do something usefull, it was funny once. not the 20th time.

[burnabykid]

its a competition between engineering faculties during E week (engineering week) at UBC, yes the bug has been done a million times, but its up to a faculty to come up with something which is supposed to be engineering related, its a tradition which UBC is known for. i'd say poor planning must have led to their demise, not sure if they set up enough spotters.

[pandalove]

It's something the engineering students do almost every year. A few years back a bunch of kids from UBC went down to the Golden Gate Bridge in California and hung a Beetle from the bridge. It's not like this is anything new... it's been going on for ages.

i know it goes on every year ... thats what i'm saying ... if it happen like once or twice then ya.. but if it happens every year .. it gets annoying ...
its like if i go around every year setting off car alarms doesn't make me right .... people wont go like ... ooh he comes by every year and set my car alarm on ... its nothign new ...
plus these are university students they are representing the educated society .. not a bunch of bored kids finished eating dinner and got nothign to do

[Jackygor]

They will be let go with a slap on the hand

[will068]

I guess UBC lowered the entrance requirements to their Engineering program :p


:haha::haha: It's always been low. Graduating from a full fledge engineering program - that's a different story.

[!Tigger]

XD thats pretty fail....

[Thomas_best]

eagor, that is the cars classic name. My cousin said they are the first ever to have the car drop.

[Blinky]

eagor, that is the cars classic name. My cousin said they are the first ever to have the car drop.

Nope.

Eagor = name of the forestry truck (or aggie truck, I forget) for their respective week. The beetle isn't named.

[hal0g0dv2]

It's something the engineering students do almost every year. A few years back a bunch of kids from UBC went down to the Golden Gate Bridge in California and hung a Beetle from the bridge. It's not like this is anything new... it's been going on for ages.

ya, they do it all the time

[antonito]

Did a bunch of you get raped by engineers or something? So much anger :confused:

[Zerius]

its a competition between engineering faculties during E week (engineering week) at UBC, yes the bug has been done a million times, but its up to a faculty to come up with something which is supposed to be engineering related, its a tradition which UBC is known for. i'd say poor planning must have led to their demise, not sure if they set up enough spotters.

one of the spotters fell asleep LOL

[bbbj]

I guess UBC lowered the entrance requirements to their Engineering program :p

Boostaholic is in UBC engineering.. so maybe they didn't lower the requirement they just changed it to cum eating.

[Zerius]

Boostaholic is in UBC engineering.. so maybe they didn't lower the requirement they just changed it to cum eating.

i'll keep an eye out for him

[agentcloud]

it is time to commence project mayhem

[Synaptik]

Did a bunch of you get raped by engineers or something? So much anger :confused:

jealous cuz these kids come out making 70k a year while they're doing blue collar work.

[svelt]

jealous cuz these kids come out making 70k a year while they're doing blue collar work.

70k as an EIT...not even close

[twitchyzero]

Boostaholic is in UBC engineering.. so maybe they didn't lower the requirement they just changed it to cum eating.
:haha::D
can't blame these engineering students for pulling stupid pranks.

they're so fricking stressed out from studying..it's nice to do sthing different.

[tough]

good try LOl

[hotjoint]

:lol shitty deal

[truth]

the guy with the red jacket as red as his ears looks as if he's about to cry. FAIL

[dat_steve]

fail!

[asian_XL]

engineering facult has no girl...I can imagine how tough it is to be there.

[MICHAELJORDAN]

These people might be very successful later in life. Who knows.

[asian_XL]

^ probably not so well with criminal record

[MICHAELJORDAN]

^ probably not so well with criminal record

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[GLOW]

epic fail.

do something useful instead of wasting taxpayers' time & money. some students made a bridge outside a food shelter out of cans of food and donated $1000 worth in the process.

[woob]

epic fail.

do something useful instead of wasting taxpayers' time & money. some students made a bridge outside a food shelter out of cans of food and donated $1000 worth in the process.

UBC engineers made a replica engineer's cairn out of campbells soup cans outside a food shelter. Nowhere near as much publicity as a bug stunt.

Also, the forestry truck's name is Omar. Dunno bout the aggie truck. I guess it's Eagor?

[Blinky]

UBC engineers made a replica engineer's cairn out of campbells soup cans outside a food shelter. Nowhere near as much publicity as a bug stunt.

Also, the forestry truck's name is Omar. Dunno bout the aggie truck. I guess it's Eagor?

Crap.

Omar's right.

Eagor... I'm not so sure of.

[will068]

70k as an EIT...not even close

EIT??

[quasi]

EIT??

Probably something do to with Engineer in Training or internship?

[woob]

yeah it stands for Engineer in Training. 4 years of EIT experience are required befor you can get your P. Eng.

[shenmecar]

they're smart enough to get into ubc engineering, but not smart enough to RUN.......

[johny]

they're smart enough to get into ubc engineering, but not smart enough to RUN.......


or jump

[tonyzoomzoom]

hopefully they won't get charged...

[Boostaholic]

It was during skulk night or something. which is an annual scavenger hunt to start off engineering week. there are bunch of other shit people did I heard. like a couple had sex in front of "welcome to surrey" sign and modified a cone into a giant vibrator.

[woob]

All further stunts have been cancelled. The dean is livid.