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Subject: Re: kidnapping hamburger figureheads
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 20:18:22 EDT
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> YAHS (Yet Another Hamburger Story)
> 
> When I was a student at New Mexico Tech the Big Boy from Albuquerque
> (about 70 miles away) was "captured" one year and lived in one of the
> dorms for a week or so until he was returned to the locker room at
> U of New Mexico.
> 
> The same year (about 79 I think) the cow from one of the Albuquerque
> steak-houses was almost captured.  However, the kidnappers were
> caught by a cop when they pulled off I-25 to change a flat (or so
> the story goes).  Apparently he was a bit suspicious of a pick-up
> truck pulling a fake cow out of town on a trailer...
> 
> [I wasn't involved in either of these, so the stories are second/third/
> fourth hand...any other Tech alumni out there who can elaborate?]
> 
> --Jeremy Epstein
> Perkin-Elmer
> {decvax,ucbvax}!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!jje

I'll be a Tech alumnus in 28 days.

Not a cow -- a steer.  I really don't know about the cop detecting the
steer (a rather large, fiberglass steer was on a trailer at an
Albuquerque steakhouse), but in the trip to Socorro, a Good Morning
America camera crew spotted them and used as human interest.  This was
St. Pat's '80.  I was only a senior in high school at the time, but I'm
pretty sure.

More recently, Jeremy (author of the beloved and ever popular ZAYEF-20),
the Ronald McDonald was taken from the local McDonalds (yes, we joined
the civilized world in 1981 -- or at least the outskirts of it) and hung
from a noose on Weir(d) Hall.  The more things change, the more they
remain the same.

-- 

                    J. Brooke King in Socorro Funland
                     ... ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!brooke

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