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>> First of all I want to say that my lawyer's not present, and I'm making this statement
under [background laughing] duress.
>> I think the statue of limitation has gone now, so you're fine now.
>> Good point, good point.
>> Being your attorney's not here.
>> So being typical Rice males we were hoping to impress some females one night,
and we decided that one way to do that would be to drive our car into the lobby of Brown.
And I can't say what precipitated this rash decision on our part,
nor can I excuse any property damage that may have occurred, but we tried to be really careful
because we disassembled everything so that we could move the car smoothly into the lobby
and put the doors back in place and then we could invite all our friends downstairs
to take a look at what we had done.
And in fact it did work and we were invited upstairs where we put on hot pants
and partied most of the night to the Rolling Stones.
>> Rock on.
>> I [laughing] have a different one.
And so we -- we were both freshman at Lovett.
Of course one of the traditions was upperclassmen loved to pick on the freshman
and a classic tradition was to penny the freshman into their rooms,
which involved pushing really *** the doors and then jamming --
progressively jamming pennies into the crack between them until the pressure was
so hard then, you couldn't open the door from either side.
>> I spent one night at Baylor Medical Center,
having a friend's finger reattached because of this practice.
[Laughing] I'll have you know.
>> Yeah. [Laughing] So the next morning the freshmen would wake up and they couldn't go
to class because they were literally locked in their rooms
and they had to call someone to get them out.
So one night we were in our room and we heard this subtle ***, *** sound of
and we pretty well recognized that someone was trying to penny us into the room.
And so -- we were not about to let them get away with that one, so we had it way --
this way -- in the old days we had these little heat...
>> Heat coils.
>> Extension heating coils.
>> It was a heater for a coil and it didn't work anymore, so being electrical engineers,
we had wire cutters and stuff like that so I had an idea.
So we went and cut the wires off of this and striped off both ends of it,
plugged it into the wall, and as the upperclassmen, who, were pushing really hard
against on the door, we put both ends of it onto the brass doorknob and sent 110 volts.
[Laughing].
>> Needless to say, they weren't pennied in.
>> There was this subtle look, on the other side like [surprise breath intake]
and they very slowly, gracefully walked away and we were never bothered again,
[laughing] from that point forward.
>> Amen.
>> Amen.
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