During our Cam River punt tour, our guide (a young college student from Trinity himself!) obliged us with many tales of fact and fancy (?) but this one anecdote begs to be told....
There was and remains a good bit of good-natured rivalry between all the various colleges and the student bodies thereof as one can well imagine in a medieval university town.
He pointed out the dramatic spires of King's college rising heavenward and claims there was a certain mischievous male who once took life and limb in hand - scaled one of those spires in the dead of night and placed a traffic cone at the top of it.
It took authorities nine days to set up the scaffolding necessary to rescue King's from her defacement -- the night before the rescue was complete, this same student, with spiderman verve, retrieved the cone - scaled the other tower and crowned one of its spires.
The student was never caught, and a 20 year old Cambridge mystery remains unsolved.
Brazen buffoonery at its finest!
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