Being a new initiate this year, I don't know how often compostie stealing happens. I would guess that between frat/soror it would be okay, but the only example I know of wasn't good...
Our house and Beta Theta Pi have this sort of unspoken "dislike" for each other due to events that happened before I got here. (Apparently one of the members who was initiated here left and went and joined Betas... and to make it worse, he refuses to pay his outstanding house bill for the entire Spring '02 semester...)
Anyway, The night of our founder's day we were celebrating by holding a costume party (of course, it was Oct. 31, so a costume party made sense), and we were all having a "good time"
One of our members heard someone banging around in our dumpster. When he went to investigate, he found out that a couple of Betas had stolen the Farmhouse composite (from 198o-something) and smashed it up. They had intended to leave it in our dumpster that way for us to take the blame.
One of our members caught them, tackled them, and got his name. (we didnt know they were Betas). He gave us fake names for him and his friends. They thought they were off the hook, but the member who had tackled him was in one of his rescitations. He discovered his name while tests were being handed back and called up Farmhouse to let them deal with it.
I couldn't tell you what happened from there. The people involved were in some serious trouble (they had smashed up the composite already). We ended up pairing with Farmhouse this spring and won Greek Week.
I'm almost tempted to go out and steal one now. I wonder if the Alpha Gams or ADPi's leave their door's unlocked... (It's okay, they love us here.
erm.... Go Cyclones.
-Sean