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==1982 Theft== | ==1982 Theft== | ||
[[File:Tool_and_cannon.jpg| | [[File:Tool_and_cannon.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Skule Cannon on the Waterloo Tool following the 1982 theft]] | ||
[[File:Tool_bfc.jpg|200px|thumb|right|BFC poses with the Waterloo Tool]] | [[File:Tool_bfc.jpg|200px|thumb|right|BFC poses with the Waterloo Tool]] | ||
Following the Welcome Back Stag (a Waterloo social night to kick off the winter term), the Tool was driven back in a convoy of vehicles. However, the lead Tool Bearer made an unexpected stop by himself before reaching their destination. It was then that University of Toronto engineering students attacked him and stole the Tool. | Following the Welcome Back Stag (a Waterloo social night to kick off the winter term), the Tool was driven back in a convoy of vehicles. However, the lead Tool Bearer made an unexpected stop by himself before reaching their destination. It was then that University of Toronto engineering students attacked him and stole the Tool. | ||
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The Tool was kept in secret by members of the [[Brute Force Committee]], who took numerous photos of the Tool, including one with the [[Skule Cannon]] placed on top of the Tool. | The Tool was kept in secret by members of the [[Brute Force Committee]], who took numerous photos of the Tool, including one with the [[Skule Cannon]] placed on top of the Tool. | ||
Following two months of negotiations between the schools, it was finally returned on March 4th, 1982, just before the Iron Ring Ceremony at Waterloo. It was returned encased in a 45-gallon drum of concrete. | [[File:Tool_and_Phone.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Tool posed with a phone, from ''The Farsity'' on April 5, 1982]]Following two months of negotiations between the schools, it was finally returned on March 4th, 1982, just before the Iron Ring Ceremony at Waterloo. It was returned encased in a 45-gallon drum of concrete. | ||
The Tool Bearers at Waterloo, with the help of their Frosh, worked through the night to free the Tool from the concrete, and succeeded only to find that "U of T" had been engraved into it. | The Tool Bearers at Waterloo, with the help of their Frosh, worked through the night to free the Tool from the concrete, and succeeded only to find that "U of T" had been engraved into it. | ||