Stealing Items... - Page 2

SurfinDBeach · #16 12-11-2004, 05:21 PM

When I was a pledge, we found out about a tradition a certain sorority on our campus does to fraternity pledges who come for "items."

The sorority, which will remain un-named, has a nice house a block from the ocean... LOL...

The house has a courtyard, and has a bunch of windows overlooking the courtyard...

When pledges arrive, a girl would come out as if she had been awaken... She'll take a picture with them, or give whatever it is they needed...

Then the house manager (sometimes the house mom) would open one of those windows above the courtyard and scold the boys for being so loud, and to hurry up and leave...

So the boys turn to leave the court yard............

Then.... WHEEEEEEW... BOOM....

All windows upstairs are open, and there are dozens of girls hurling water balloons at the fraternity pledges...

Heck, we even got a "DRIVE BY ballooning!" Yes, a truck, girls, and water balloons...

Boy was that fun!

GO BEACH!!!

Wine&SilverBlue · #17 12-11-2004, 11:25 PM

once we had a mission where we had to "steal" things from the frats on frat row... any item from each house, but they had to include at least one toothbrush, a pool ball, and a roll of toilet paper. we weren't allowed to drink, and we had to sort of convince the brothers into giving us these items (or letting us take them -- this was a sat night, we weren't breaking in to the houses or anything) but couldn't tell them why. (we then returned everything a few hours later)

we wouldn't even think of taking anything important.. we took things like a sock, a comb, a plunger (which had a guy from that frat yelling out the window "ewww you girls are so sketchy!" -- this being from the sketchiest frat on campus

). it was fun having 2 girls go in.. one pretending to be really drunk and needing to use the bathroom and the other apologizing for the "drunk friend" while the first girl grabbed a toothbrush and shoved it down her shirt.

i agree that stealing is stealing and we prob should not have done this... but its a tradition and we return everything and no harm is done

KDMafia · #18 12-12-2004, 02:47 PM

I have mixed issues about stealing. My campus is small and sororities each have a corridor in a dorm building. Due to this there is a mutual rule about stealing. Usually if it is done it is done by sorority girls at fraternity houses grabbing like a glass or something like that. Sometimes more serious stuff is taken. The entire greek community seems to take it pretty well, however there are things which is understood to be off limits. Once our founding members composite was stolen but after a week it was returned. This usualy happens if something important to the sorority is stolen. I dont see some of it as a big deal, but i dont agree with breaking and entering or manipulating people. It's usually just being at a frat party and seeing a semi formal cup laying around or other such things with letters on and stealing it. It is also understood that if you are careless enough to leave something like your letters or pledge book laying around and unguarded you're not respecting them and fraternity guys feel less bad about taking them.

Tom Earp · #19 12-12-2004, 02:52 PM

The problemo is it can get out of hand. When it does, there can be serious problems as it escalates over a period of time. People can get harmed and there We go again.

Fun at the time? But just stop and figure how the legal system is becomeing.

Sad But True!

KDMafia · #20 12-12-2004, 03:15 PM

I agree that it can get out of hand and it has calmed down alot from what it used to be and you are right about the legal system. I just look at some of it as pranks rather than stealing. There is a specific sign my sorority owns and it had a past habit of being stolen by a fraternity on campus, if it was missing we knew they had it, and we would get it back. It became a game between us and thankfully that is how it is all usually viewed on campus.

lyrica9 · #21 12-12-2004, 03:32 PM

we have a huge Pi in our entrance way because our Alpha and Delta got stolen from in front of our house.ever since the sorority row was built, all the sororities get pranked on an almost weekly basis.

i think the stealing thing gets really old after the 10th or so time.

KDMafia · #22 12-12-2004, 03:44 PM

Yeah I would not be happy if someone stole something like that from us. That just involves too much time and effort and I understand why people would do that...
Last year one of my good friends fraternity houses got broken into and every single one of their composites was stolen.. that's just ridiculous

texas*princess · #23 12-12-2004, 03:44 PM

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Originally posted by lyrica9
we have a huge Pi in our entrance way because our Alpha and Delta got stolen from in front of our house.ever since the sorority row was built, all the sororities get pranked on an almost weekly basis.

i think the stealing thing gets really old after the 10th or so time.

No kidding.. even before the row was built. Remember how our Delta kept getting stolen? It was those guys from the "Delta Lodge"... I only found that out after one of those guys got hired @ my last job... we were talking and he was like "You're an ADPi?" and he started laughing... so I asked why it was so funny... she said b/c their guys kept stealing our Delta.

Very mature guys.

EPTriSigma · #24 12-12-2004, 04:01 PM

The funniest thing I have ever seen stolen was last year. The Phi Delta Theta boys stole the bar from the basement of the Phi Kappa Psi house during a party! I have no idea how they did it... but it worked. I hear there is plans for the pop machine.

The only other things here that really happen are composite pictures getting stolen and signed. We don't have a composite that Lambda Chi Alpha hasn't signed the back of. A couple years back some of their members stole out composite during semi formal then proceeded to "porn it" (place nudie picks all over it). They then took a picture of the porned composite and placed a link to it on the Universities web site.

Really it's all in fun. As long as no one gets hurt, nothing gets damaged, and everything is returned eventually, it's cool.

DZviol · #25 12-12-2004, 10:05 PM

At my school if you take something from one of the houses, you do a swap thing to get your item back. For example, in order to give something back you can ask for something in return like pizza and ice cream for everyone. It's usuallly fun and nobody ever holds an item for more than 2 days.

epsilon99 · #26 12-13-2004, 12:45 PM

I think it can be okay, I mean lets have some perspective here. It can be taken too far though. We had a break in by another frat. They broke a window to get in, vandalized the building and grabbed everything in site. We got the police involved and got it all back, but they definielty took it too far.

BlondeGurl · #27 12-13-2004, 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
In days of old this may have been considered a prank or a 'spirit mission', as long as the items in question taken were returned undamaged within a certain time 'window'. In this day and age, it would be considered vandalism and burglary, among other things, if you get caught.

I would NOT condone breaking into a house to capture a rival house's charter, composites or - egad - ritual equipment (yes, it's been known to happen). Unfortunately, things get taken too far.

To be one hundred percent honest...my pledge class was the bomb at pulling this stuff off!! We ALWAYS returned everything but it was a fun way to get to know other pledge classes. One time we took a fraternities letters right from under their noses. Of course we painted them and returned them the next day with dohnuts! It was also a big deal to toilet paper their house becasue supposedly no one had ever gotten away with it before, but we did. Later tht night we came back to help them clean it up though.

Anything we ever did was always in the spirirt of fun and the guys knew it! They would play the same kind of pranks on us! We always had a good time with it.

I think it is totally disrespectful not to return anything you might have borrowed, but as far as I know on my campus this is a game that has been going on for years!

GreenKappa · #28 12-13-2004, 01:13 PM

I remember my Sophmore year Gamma Delt stole a bunch of girls underwear (don't ask why) from a local sorority....THERE is still talk on campus about it. The girls pressed charges. Its a mess. HEaring that just supports why it sometimes is not ok. Stealing is stealing...borrowing is borrowing however....I think that both sides have to be comfortable with the prank...as clearly was not in this case and overstepping the lines by taking their undies.

adpiucf · #29 12-13-2004, 01:44 PM

Common sense dictates that Greeks pulling pranks on other Greeks perpetuates the sort of stereotypes we get angry with when the media potrays us as drunken and immature vandals. Too bad they are reporting the truth.

Use maturity and when in doubt remember the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. When one sorority or fraternity is made out to look bad, we all lose.

Rudey · #30 12-13-2004, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by adpiucf
Common sense dictates that Greeks pulling pranks on other Greeks perpetuates the sort of stereotypes we get angry with when the media potrays us as drunken and immature vandals. Too bad they are reporting the truth.

Use maturity and when in doubt remember the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. When one sorority or fraternity is made out to look bad, we all lose.

"Prank" does not equal "drunken". Usually drunken involves alcohol.

"Immature" is in the eyes of the beholder. All kids are immature to someone out of college; Greeks are no different.

"Vandals" are defined as people who destroy property.

As for a prank, or practical joke, some enjoy it. If it isn't accepted in that environment or with that group, fine. Common sense dictates being cautious and does not equate a joke that both people enjoy with alcohol nor destruction.

-Rudey