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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
- Subject: ruining fountains with detergent (Was: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.041832.10572@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec25.114527.27420@u.washington.edu> dst@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dale Tanigawa) writes:
- >There are a few legends here at the UW involving Drumheller Fountain, which
- >is bordered on one side by the chemistry building. Drumheller is a nice
- >big pondish sized fountain. One of the legends is that someone launched a
- >can of sodium from the chemistry building into the fountain---sodium reacts
- >explosively with water. The other is slightly more entertaining. Supposedly,
- >a grad student dumped a failed experiment in the fountain where it reacted
- >with all the duck shit to become something else entirely.
-
- Pranks like tossing stuff into fountains may seem funny to the perp's but
- they often don't realize that they wandered across the line into vandalism.
- We have a fountain at Virginia Tech, right on the plaza between the library
- and bookstore. People used to come by and toss boxes of detergent and
- other things in there, watch it foam up, then run away before Security
- came along. Result of their fun: the fountain being stopped, the fountain
- works being taken to pieces to get all the detergent (or whatever got
- thrown in this time) out, and a lot of wasted man hours. Eventually the
- administration just stopped putting water in it at all, and now it just
- sits there idle except on home football weekends and Founder's Day and
- stuff. Sure, it's fun for the thirty seconds people stand there watching
- it foam, but it's really kinda pointless and wasteful.
-
- Joel "working for the university changed my point of view on some things" Furr
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
-