{"id":1335,"date":"2012-11-09T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2012-11-09T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:27:43","slug":"the-heist-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/11\/09\/the-heist-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heist of 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1336\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1336\" title=\"untitled-1398\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/untitled-1398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/untitled-1398.jpg 288w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/untitled-1398-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Monon Bell early Friday morning &#8211; the touchup paint is still drying<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s right sports fans&#8230;some DePauw students made an attempt on the Bell early Thursday morning. (The Bell was safe and sound at Chapel just a few minutes ago- but with a new\/rebuilt handle.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you the basics as I know then&#8230;.you can pick the &#8220;options&#8221; which best meet your storytelling needs.<\/p>\n<p>Late Wed\/early Thursday a group of &#8211; 3,000 or 300 or 30 or 15 &#8211; students from DePauw tried to heist the Bell. \u00a0Guarding the bell were &#8211; 30 or 15 or 3 &#8211; pledges from a fraternity (you could use TKE if you wanted to do so).<\/p>\n<p>The DePauw students subdued the Wabash pledges using much greater numbers while some DePauw students tried to grab the Bell. \u00a0A slight miscalculation by the DePauw students on the Bell&#8217;s weight &#8211; no fault of their own \u00a0as it&#8217;s been a long time &#8211; meant the Bell was dropped causing damage to the handle. \u00a0By this time the alarm had sounded on campus and &#8211; 300 Spartans or guys on white horses or more pledges and Rich Woods &#8211; showed up to control the Bell and send the DePauw students on their way.<\/p>\n<p>The Grunge is excited for one reason. \u00a0At least someone down South missed the Bell and wants it back. \u00a0This is the stuff rivalries are made of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right sports fans&#8230;some DePauw students made an attempt on the Bell early Thursday morning. (The Bell was safe and sound at Chapel just a few minutes ago- but with a new\/rebuilt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/11\/untitled-1398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}