Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site nmtvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!nmtvax!brooke From: brooke@nmtvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <-44200@nmtvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 16:18:00 EDT Article-I.D.: nmtvax.-44200 Posted: Sat Apr 27 16:18:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 19-May-85 06:47:11 EDT References: <9052@rochester.UUCP> Lines: 42 Nf-ID: #R:rochester:-905200:nmtvax:-44200:177600:1719 Nf-From: nmtvax!brooke Apr 27 18:18:00 1985 > 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 Any thoughts or non-thoughts expressed here are not necessarily those of NMIMT.