| Many universities have a ‘foundation day’ each year, a holiday to celebrate the founding of the institution. One on such occasions, a group of students from Sydney, Australia, took the traditional holiday pranks a step further with the following hilarious practical joke. The students bought a plain white second-hand van, and painted ‘Lucas Heights Nuclear Commission’ on the side. In a carefully planned operation, wearing white laboratory coats and using Geiger-counters from the physics department, they drove along through George St, Sydney, and rolled a forty-gallon drum of green jelly out onto the road. They stopped the van, and set the Geiger counters to ‘maximum’ sensitivity (which picks up background radiation to give a continuous crackle). The result was mayhem amongst local pedestrians and shopkeepers, and within minutes the area had been cordoned off by the police. The driver claimed that they needed to get some extra equipment, and quickly drove off with the other pranksters, later abandoning the van. The culprits were never caught. | 
