Yeah, they could at least return the stuff they took. I remember years ago some Tri-Sigs allegedly stole a horseshoe and some composites from our house. I stopped some drunken ADPis from taking an Apollo statue out of our chapter room. And Mr. Earp's boys took a letter off of our house. It just gets out of control.

Although I guess we weren't blameless, after all we did move the sign in front of the ASA house, but they at least got it back...

The Theta Chis stole our kitchen clock. WTF???

One of our sister's ex boyfriends stole the letter plaque we had on our front porch and did NOT give it back, which was very uncool. :mad:

Jon, please make sure you post that is was not my Chapter!

I told my guys many times do not stoop that low.

Yes, it can get out of control like having raw eggs thrown against a new house of one Fraternity from another.


Pay Backs are hell! Sad as it gets?

It was not Tom's chapter. Anyways, that was what ten years ago. Besides, I swiped some stuff from Tom's house. Just kidding.

Thanks LOL, but as I remember, neither of our Chapters are still there and if they cannot act properly, then they should be removed.

Personally, I think a prank like this has to follow three rules in order to be cool:
1. It has to be returned in a few days, certainly no more than a week.
2. It has to be returned in the same condition it was taken in.
3. It can't be anything ritual.

Some girls from our chapter stole a lawn gnome from one of the fraternities once. I think it belonged to the Delts. We took about a million pictures with it during recruitment, including one where it was sitting in front of the Sigma Chi house. It was returned in one piece; I think the Delts even got copies of the pictures.

Garbage like permanently stealing items or ruining them is crime, not a prank and IMHO should be prosecuted.

Bwahahaha, you should've made them a photo album titled "The Roaming Gnome" to pay homage to those travelocity commercials. ;)

We sold the old chapter house and moved out two year ago-- the week of moving several items appeared on the front porch with notes saying "we stole this years ago- thought you might want it back now" We even had a composite from the 80s reappear with many different sets of fraternity letters on the back!

I can't remember if it Kappa Sig or ATO (more likely KS) that stole our letters with where bolted on to the wall in our courtyard. We didn't notice for a long time but eventually got them back.

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One time one of my sisters was visiting her boyfriend and she found some items that had been missing for a while. A composite and a wooden carving of our crest that some alum gave the chapter. The only thing that was really strange, her boyfriends goes to a different school in a different state (well it's only like an hour away).

We were joking that we were gonna keep it until our initiation so that it could attend initiation with us...

one time, my house stole a big stone lion bench from ADPi, we left a ransom note written in our colors with a little rubber duckie on top of it. a few days pass by and no retaliation. we were starting to feel a little guilty. however, ADPi's philanthropy was that week and when they sent there coaches over, we showed them their bench and it was absoultely hilarious to see their faces. come time of the philanthropy we show up with the bench and set it up infront of the judges with the biggest shit-eating grins on our faces.

Back in the day - when this wasn't considered hazing or considered a risk management issue - it wasn't unusual for a fraternity's pledge class to "borrow" a sorority's composite and bring it back to the fraternity house. Usually with the help (consent) of either the sorority's president, the sorority's social chair or the sorority's pledge trainer (new member educator). I recall one time when a sorority's House Mother helped. That was classic!

Basically, these were more or less supervised pranks. A "ransom note" with clues would be left usually for the sorority's pledge class. It was up to them to figure out which fraternity took it. The idea being that once the sorority's pledge class figured out which fraternity took the composite, the pledges would come to the fraternity's house with the "ransom" which was usually something like having to serenade the fraternity. The fraternity would then host the sorority at an informal mixer (exchange). This is why planning ahead with the sorority social chair helped. And if the pledge class was caught, then the pledges normally had to serenade the sorority. And to "make up for their mischief", they were instructed to invite the sorority over a mixer. All in all, a kind of "planned spontaneity".

a few years ago, I hear our guys used to be great at pranking the girls with stuff like this...I have heard stories about a few guys taking a composite from ZTA and then when they went to return it, one guy returned it while 2 more pulled a truck up to their drive way and took their big letters (they were returned) and when we used to be super close with DZ A few guys "went shopping", like, rang the doorbell and when the girls answered walked into their house with a shopping cart, filled it up in their chapter room and left...and when I was a pledge, we came back from our pledge retreat and DZ had come into our house (the doors didn't lock...oh yeah, classy house eh?) and took our Delta and Zeta class letters and as soon as the guys saw this, within 5 mins (cuz they lived right around the corner from us) the letters were taken off the front of the DZ house and put in the class letters place till we got the class letter back. It doesn't really happen anymore in our greek community...except for when ADPi sends their seniors on a raid of the row every spring, but thats just plain comedy! I'd say if its all in fun and games keep it all in fun and games B&E is not cool and you NEVER fuck with a charter...

I think that pranks are apart of college and greek life... pranks meant in fun, not out to hurt person or property. BUT there is a time and place and for it to be a prank the other party must get the items back.

I know that in college my roommates and I stole a stuff animal from a sister. The french movie with the roaming gnome was big at this time. So we took the animal to various spots and took pictures. We had the animal sitting in trees and falling out another sorority's window. We sent the pictures to her for weeks without her knowing who was sending her the pictures. She hated it at first but then started to love getting the pictures... it was FUN. But we didn't hold onto the item for months and years. THAT IS A PRANK.

What isn't a prank, is stealing an item and not letting the group have the item back within a desent period of time (a few weeks, not years or months). Or giving them "clues" to figure it out and get it back eventually.
WHY WOULD YOU WANT SOMEONE'S FLAG or COMPOSITE PICTURES??????????????? That is just stupid and petty and pointless.