Jokes I played on campus
Save our trees Demonstration
The first of my large scale campus pranks. i must have had quite a bit of work to do, as i got bored, invented a fake event, printed literally hundreds of posters and flyers that i then distributed far and wide on the University campus during the early hours of the morning.
![[Scaled down save our trees poster]](../images/weird/saveourtrees.png)
i then staked out the alleged venue to spy on people innocent enough to turn up. Surprising about 25 people in total arrived! Unfortunately the lecture theatre was locked so most just left after a while. i was quite surprised to see a number of my housemates there! They never found out!
Fake letters
There were a few of these the details of which are not ready for public release. Please feel free to use the fake University of York letter template that i created (Microsoft Word format).
Students' Union Website
The SU stole content from my site without acknowledgement. From then on it was war. Still going strong at www.yusu.org.uk is my parody SU site indended to embarass the SU. The SU's real site is hosted at www.yusu.org, notice the subtle difference in addresses. Warning: Most of the jokes are very York Uni specific!
![[Screen shot of yusu.org.uk website]](../images/weird/yusu.org.uk.png)
Since the SU had not announced their new site, i had chance to make the first strike. i launched my site with a full campus publicity campaign, second only to those at election union time. Every single poster board, and computer room on campus. It took me 6 hours and over 500 flyers, and 100 posters. The result was good though. Over a thousand hits in the first morning and threats of legal action in the following weeks...
It was alledged that i hacked the real SU site in various cunning ways and annoyed the SU webmaster so much that legal invertention was sought. i couldn't possibly comment on these unsubstantiated rumours though...
Fake Pro-War Demonstration
i'll start this off with an apology to one Tom Davie. Sorry Bob!
The result of a YSC brainstorming drinking session and the follow up to save our trees.
![[Pro war poster]](../images/weird/prowarposter.png)
The idea should have died in the bar, but me and well-adjusted-Tim, (then known as pyscho Tim) breathed life into the monster. An hour later in computer science we were printing out posters for a pro war demonstration which featured guest speaker Tom Davie, a gulf war veteran.
We spent the next few hours putting the posters up with campus security hot on our tails taking them down. What ever happened to freedom of speech, some naive people would say the very thing the war was being fought for!