Who's Who?
Who's Who?
It has
never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more
than else. Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the
hoax. Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form
of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in. Students
often create amusing situations which are funny to everyone except the victims.
When a
student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his
university, he immediately telephoned the police and informed them that two
students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.
As soon as he had hung up, he went over to the workmen and told them that if a
policeman ordered them to go away, they were not taking him seriously. He added
that a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all sorts of silly
jokes on people. Both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student
for this piece of advanced information.
The
student did in an archway nearby where he could watch and hear everything that
went on. Sure enough, a policeman arrived on the scene and politely asked the
workmen to go away. When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen.
He threatened to remove them by force. The workmen told him to do as he pleased
and the policeman telephoned for help. Shortly afterwards, four more policemen
arrived and remonstrated with the workmen. As the men refused to stop working,
the police attempted to seize the pneumatic drill. The workmen struggled
fiercely and one of them lost his temper. He threatened to call the police. At
this, the police pointed out ironically that this would hardly be necessary as
the men were already under arrest. Pretending to speak seriously, one of the
workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the
station. Permission was granted and a policeman accompanied him to a payphone.
Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police did he
realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.
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