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University of Toronto engineering students stole the Waterloo Tool, mascot of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering, | University of Toronto engineering students stole the Waterloo Tool, mascot of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering, on January 6, 1982. | ||
==The Tool== | ==The Tool== | ||
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The Tool has not been stolen since. | The Tool has not been stolen since. | ||
==Media Coverage== | |||
The following article appeared in a Waterloo student newspaper, ''The Imprint'' several weeks following the liberation: | |||
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'''Cathy McBride, ''The Imprint'', February 12, 1982''' | |||
Charges may be laid in connection with the January 6 disappearance of the University of Waterloo engineering mascot, the Ridgid Tool. | |||
A group claiming responsibility for the prank has been in contact with the Imprint. In its letter the group said the tool was taken from the trunk of a car in a local plaza. The tool had been at the Welcome Back stag earlier in the afternoon and the thieves followed the car that was transporting the tool. The tool was chained to the car forcing the thieves to use chaincutters. | |||
The letter received by the Imprint received by the Imprint labelled the sender as Paul Lampart of 2 Bloor St. W. Toronto. Don Heath, President of the Engineering Society, said that the pranksters have been contacted and have admitted that Paul Lampart was a pseudonym. Heath added that he received letters from the culprits postmarked Montreal. | |||
Heath called the police because “they (the thieves) went beyond the ethical point of student pranks by damaging the car.” However, Heath is reluctant to press charges especially if the incident was a prank. A professional student convicted would lose his status. Heath says “there’s something inside me that makes me feel it’s an engineering student somewhere.” | |||
Heath is upset and feels that the incident has overstepped the bounds of normal pranks. “I don’t like the fact that they haven’t identified themselves.” At first Heath was worried because he didn’t know if the Tool was taken by pranksters or by car thieves. He also doesn’t like the fact that a car was damaged when the Tool was taken. | |||
The pranksters have been in touch with heath and have offered to pay for any damage they had done. Heath said that “depending on who it turns out to be”, he may accept the payment. | |||
Heath said that the group had phoned him and offered to negotiate the return of the Ridgid Tool. | |||
The police investigation has produced no results. | |||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||