TTers may not be geniuses....

“(Of course I'm not speaking for Nigal)


Thursday, February 02, 2006



The mountain rescue unfolded like a graceful ballet.

Pasadena, Calif., cops saved two-dozen Caltech students in tutus, Superman capes and other weird attire after they got stuck on the Mount Wilson Toll Road during a hazing stunt, according to The Pasadena Star-News.

A representative for the California Institute of Technology students — known worldwide for genius-level IQs — said the rituals' organizers didn't know the road had been covered last year by a landslide.

"You've got to remember that common sense is not factored into the intelligence quotient," Deputy Greg Gabriel, who leads the Altadena Search and Rescue team, told the Star-News.

Caltech sophomore Nick Goeden told the paper the annual "Mount Wilson Night," when freshmen are initiated into the school's Page House dorm, kicked off without a hitch Monday night.

The fraternity treated the male and female freshmen to a huge feast, clad them in tutus and capes, paraded them around Pasadena, and then took them to the Mount Wilson Observatory for a 10-mile trek down the road.

Rescuers got a call about the party of "geniuses" around 3 a.m. after the group got stranded in Eaton Canyon a quarter-mile from the bottom — with a landslide blocking their path.

Gabriel told The Star-News the "gifted" students didn't bring warm clothes, flashlights or other important supplies.

However, he told the paper they had all kinds of goofy "distinctive headgear — hats with antennas and horns, that kind of stuff."

"Going up those trails in the middle of the night without any safety equipment and no lighting is pretty stupid," Gabriel told The Star-News. "We've had washouts. If they took a wrong trail or fell off that trail, it's hundreds of feet down."”

“frat houses have been scientifically proven to kill brain cells”

“The TT hazings are much worse than this.”

“"You've got to remember that common sense is not factored into the intelligence quotient," Deputy Greg Gabriel, who leads the Altadena Search and Rescue team, told the Star-News.


Well said!”

“

Do you know what the difference is between camping and getting buggered is?

Wanna go camping?”

“I think this was a dorm prank, not fraternity hazing.

That's a long hike and hard on your feet and knees...even in the day.

BTW, Cal Tech students do a lot of backpacking. One of their freshman orientation options is a backpack in the Sierras. I meet see them in the San Gorgonio wilderness also.”

“Nigal you just plain scare me at times”

““Nigal you just plain scare me at times”
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AT TIMES????”