Posted on 05/03/2017 5:44:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The odds were long, but a couple of University of Kentucky students decided it was worth the risk to climb through the ceiling ducts to a teacher’s office to steal a statistics exam.
Unfortunately for them, the teacher is a night owl.
According to UK Police, UK statistics instructor John Cain had been working late in his third floor office in the Multidisciplinary Science Building on Rose Street on Tuesday night. About midnight, he left to get something to eat. When he returned about 1:30 a.m., he tried to unlock the door, but it was blocked by something.
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“He yelled out that he was calling the police and then the door swung open and two young men ran down the hallway,” recounted UK spokesman Jay Blanton.
Shortly after police arrived, one of the students returned and confessed. Henry Lynch II, a 21-year-old junior majoring in biosystems engineering, gave police an earful, including that he’d climbed through the building’s air ducts to the ceiling above Cain’s office and dropped down into the room, then unlocked the door and let in his friend, sophomore Troy Kiphuth, 21, who was not in Cain’s class.
Lynch also told them he had already tried to steal the exam earlier that evening around 6 p.m., but couldn’t find it. And, he said, it wasn’t the first time: Earlier in the semester, he’d successfully stolen another exam from Cain’s office, but he assured officers that he had not shared the answers with other students.
Lynch apparently gained access to Cain’s office all three times by climbing through the building’s ducts, and dropping down through the ceiling. How he got into the core of the building remains under investigation.
UK Police cited both students with third degree burglary, which will get referred to Fayette Circuit Court.
Blanton said the matter has also been referred to UK’s Office of Student Conduct, which will now conduct a formal investigation and review.
“The Office of Student Conduct takes this matter very seriously and it will be reviewed extensively to make a determination and we will act accordingly,” Blanton said.
Schrodinger’s Cat?
You’re supposed to hide in the dumpster outside the building and wait for the mimeographed copy to be thrown out.
How did they go through the duct system without making a sound?
The odds were long, it was a statistics exam. I get their joke......
Since that is at BEST, vaguely known to many of us, please make the connection :)
I know it’s something about a dead cat or maybe dead cat and it has to do with physics :)
Who knows what was on the test?
“mimeographed copy”
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Good lord,that takes me back——waaaay back
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Obviously too stupid to be in college. And his buddy owes him a solid beatdown.
“The guys at the Jewish house said all of our answers on the statistics exam were wrong!”
In my fraternity, we did it differently.
For exams where the teacher had multiple exam times, one guy would go into the class and sit down with all the other test takers. After the test was handed out, the Confederate student would get up and declare loudly he is in the wrong room.
Then get up and run out with the exam in hand.
Never got caught and never heard of it mentioned among teachers.
A gag that got repeated over and over. 95% of the tests were exact duplicates even after the leakage.
Rofl
These guys were obviously not UK basketball players. They would have had their “A” locked up they day they registered for the class. And they wouldn’t even have to show up for it.
Uh, no trees fell in the forest?
Our neighbors!
They’ll have to turn gay or tranny to beat this rap.
quite the little chatterbox
Too bad Nixon’s gone. He’d have hired them. So would Joe Kennedy.
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