Tau Epsilon Phi (MIT) and a Member: "Six-Figure" Settlement with Workers

[exlurker]

Expensive (and dangerous) "prank."

See
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/MIT-St...ternity/26125/

Excerpt from ^^:

August 10, 2010, 12:27 PM ET

MIT Student and Fraternity Reach Settlement With Volunteers Burned in Explosive Prank

The Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and Bhaskar Mookerji, one of its members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reached a six-figure settlement on Monday with two environmental-cleanup volunteers who were severely injured in a prank involving explosive sodium metal . . . . The volunteers were aboard a . . . in September 2007, cleaning litter and debris out of the Charles River, when an item they had retrieved exploded. Law-enforcement authorities later discovered a YouTube video celebrating an apparent annual tradition of "sodium drops," . . . and Mr. Mookerji confessed to throwing the material into the river. He was charged with disorderly conduct and environmental pollution, but the charges were dropped when he completed 40 hours of community service.