Question: What’s the best April Fools prank that’s been pulled on you?

The one that tops my list is one that some of the girls on my floor pulled on my this year.

To setup some background, about a week ago 4 of us guys were bored sometime after dark and decided to go exploring. We got onto the roof of Ferguson Hall (easy), and then tried the Social Sciences building without any luck (damn the locked doors).

Getting bored, we headed out onto the bridge at which point we boosted Dave up so he could pull himself onto the top of the bridge. He was greeted with the “Cease and Desist” sign on top of the bridge and decided it was a bad idea to go further (the sign is there to keep people from stealing the flags that line the top of the bridge).

So we headed over to the East bank to try to get on some of the roofs of the buildings in Northrop Mall. From there we got on the roofs of Tate (out a window), Murphy (out of a scary roof hatch), and Kolthoff/Smith (out of an unlocked door).

By far the Kolthoff/Smith roof was the most exciting (lots of places to go, including walking all the way around Smith on a quasi-narrow ledge).

Anyway, this leads to the point of the best prank ever. Today in my mail, I received a letter from UMPD:

March 28, 2004

Bradley Froehle:

On the night of Wednesday, March 24, UMPD security cameras captured your image trespassing in two University buildings: Smith Hall and Kolthoff Hall. This is against University policy, as detailed in Article IV, Section 3.4 of the University Code of Conduct.

In light of this violation, your presence is requested at the University Safety and Transportation Building, located at 511 Washington Ave SE. We ask you to please contact Nancy Simms at (612) 481-2365 within twenty-four hors to arrance a preliminary hearing before Judge William Ford. Failure to respond within the designated time period will result in further legal action. We hope to resolve this issue in a timely manner.

Thank you for your cooperation.

[signature of Chuck Miner]

Lieutenant Chuck Miner
CID Division Manager
(612) 379-8890

Being the gullible individual that I am, I bought it for a little while.. enough to actually call the telephone number (which turns out to be April’s cellphone). Coincidentally, the phone number at the bottom is a pizza place, although I didn’t end up calling that one.

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