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Current Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:27 -0600
No suspect in sight for Eye of Sauron prank
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A replica of the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Ring series hung from beams on the McFarland Memorial Bell Tower early Sunday Morning. Those responsible with positioning the Lord of the Ring's Eye of Sauron replica on the McFarland Memorial Bell Tower remain unknown, said Skip Frost, acting Assistant Chief of University Police.A replica of the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Ring series hungs from beams on the McFarland Memorial Bell Tower early Sunday Morning.
Those responsible with positioning the Lord of the Ring's Eye of Sauron replica on the McFarland Memorial Bell Tower remain unknown, said Skip Frost, acting Assistant Chief of University Police.
"Apparently some big Lord of the Ring fans hoisted it up there," said Frost. "It's actually pretty cute."
No damage was done to the tower itself.
'Sauron' is the name of the principal antagonist in The Lord of the Rings series.
Frost reports that construction crews dismantled the eye around 10:30 a.m. Monday.
"We're taking advantage of our patrol resources and watching over the area," said Frost. "Someone getting the eye up there is a dangerous task, and we're always making sure that students are in safe hands. It's a construction area, and our main goal is to make this campus secure."
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yep... they are so concerned with the student's safety that they are now going to start keeping an eye on the construction site. wayta be proactive guys.
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Lord of the RINGS
Not Lord of the Ring Not Lord of the Ring's
Lord of the Rings
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Hello, just thought I would give you a tip on the title of the book series by J.R.R. Tolkien: it is _Lord of the Rings_ and a possessive format would read _Lord of the Rings'_ or even _Lord of the Rings's_, although my personal preference would be for the first option.
And as for the observation that the Eye of Sauron in effigy is "cute?"
Sigh.
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Y'all realize this is an article from 2008, right?
...guess not.
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And if they want to keep an eye on the area, why remove the eye? I think it was doing the job rather well! :-D
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That's freakin' hilarious. Well done Student of 2008!
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All this complaining about getting the title wrong and not one comment about "hungs from beams"? This is supposed to be a University student paper, yes?
The image accompanying this story made it onto Hacked IRL.
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This kind of prank happens at MIT all the time. :-)
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That tower was just begging for the Eye of Sauron - what were they thinking when they built it like that?
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That's the best one I've seen since somebody put Mickey Mouse ears on the statue of the late president of the University of Oklahoma (of course, that was about 1970....)
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