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A student robbed a sign from college and returned it 11 years later with this note

The long prank.

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ELEVEN YEARS AGO, a serious theft took place on a UK college campus.

The above sign for a student accommodation building was stolen from Bath University, and it looked like the mystery would never be solved.

But yesterday the sign was returned fully in tact, with this note from the perpetrator:

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The full note from the mystery person reads:

Thank you for the loan of your sign for the past 11 years.
I promise I have looked after it well. You will be pleased to hear I have grown up a lot since graduating from Bath. I now work in management for a very well known multinational brand and no longer steal signs.
Thank you and apologies again.
A sorry former sign thief.

The University announced the news on its website yesterday – and it’s since blown up into a major story on the BBC and elsewhere.

The quick thinkers over in the Bath administration are using this opportunity to put out the following plea:

The University is wondering which other former students might be willing to return ‘borrowed’ items, rumoured to include traffic cones, a length of yellow piping and even a few books, all of which can be returned anonymously.

First published on DailyEdge.ie, written by David Elkin.

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    Mute The Green Monkey
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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:56 AM

    Was never a fan of Hitler but didn’t know he was on a blacklist of people that can’t be spoken about, would be interesting to see who else is on it……….

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    Mute sonny red
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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:00 AM

    I think Twink is on it. I’m not 100% sure though.

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    Mute ohmadge85
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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:56 AM

    I think Voldemort is on that list too…

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    Mute Robbie Curran
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    Aug 29th 2015, 11:11 AM

    Can we put Jedward on the list???

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    Mute Grigori Rasputin
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    Aug 29th 2015, 12:53 PM

    (David Brent voice)

    Blacklist? Aw, that’s racist.

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    Mute Eoin Cusack
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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:48 AM

    she did (nazi )that coming

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    Mute Sam
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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:44 AM

    Celebrity big brother? Umm where are the actual celebs? And why is this still a thing? And why am I asking so many questions?

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:50 AM

    I live how depression and oppression are the go to excuses for fools these days, while people who are actually depressed or oppressed are invisible.

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    Mute gkrell
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    Aug 29th 2015, 12:20 PM

    Except she quite clearly had mental issues when she said that and possibly still does. She was suffering from trauma after having an anyuresm, and depression from her fiancée’s death. She was saying all sorts of wild crap. Seemed to me she was a paranoid schizophrenic and posted videos about how government agencies were following her because she was spreading “the truth” about how:

    “the government now has a way to send out frequencies on your tv that you cannot hear but it highly affects your brain….I have been studying this for the past seven years and have kept quiet about it until now. I chat with other groups of people who also know about THE OTHERS”

    - direct quote.

    She was clearly suffering from mental illness and needed medical help.

    And I don’t know how BB missed any of this. It’s mentioned on her wiki page.

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    Mute David Jordan
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    Aug 29th 2015, 2:35 PM

    Absolutely agree with you gkrell. I remember that episode and thinking at the time that she was having a breakdown, that it was possibly schizophrenia. Her comment does suggest schizophrenia.

    “the government now has a way to send out frequencies on your tv that you cannot hear but it highly affects your brain….I have been studying this for the past seven years and have kept quiet about it until now. I chat with other groups of people who also know about THE OTHERS”

    So she had a delusion that frequencies on TV were affecting her brain and this was orchestrated by the “Others”. There’s two symptoms of schizophrenia this matches…

    “Delusions of reference – A neutral environmental event is believed to have a special and personal meaning. For example, a person with schizophrenia might believe a billboard or a person on TV is sending a message meant specifically for them.”

    “Delusions of control – Belief that one’s thoughts or actions are being controlled by outside, alien forces. Common delusions of control include thought broadcasting (“My private thoughts are being transmitted to others”), thought insertion (“Someone is planting thoughts in my head”), and thought withdrawal (“The CIA is robbing me of my thoughts”).”

    http://www.helpguide.org/articles/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-signs-types-and-causes.htm

    It’s interesting to read about James Tilly Matthews (1770 – 1815), the earliest documented case of schizophrenia, who 150 years before TV and brain altering frequencies held the unshakable delusion that a gang of criminals were influencing his brain using a machine he called the “Air Loom” that operated on the principal of “pneumatic chemistry”. It is remarkable that the symptoms of schizophrenia remain the same in people separated by culture and time.

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    Mute John Donnelly
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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:10 AM

    Total airhead anyways seeing the likes of her and Jenna Jameson on a show like big brother, I could think of plenty of things I’d rather do like watch paint dry! As for blaming depression smh! Depression does not make you make public statements like that! I think her head has being bounced off the headboard a few too any times

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:08 AM

    Why is it that every time there is c conversation about gob*****es Twinks name comes into it

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    Mute mo
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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:47 AM

    because she will cut your micky off

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    Mute Ron North
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    Aug 29th 2015, 11:50 AM

    Not if you zip it up.

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    Mute Charles Coughlan
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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:44 AM

    Don’t watch that trash, whatever floats your boat I suppose.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:57 AM

    Surely this is just a publicity stunt

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    Mute Monkable P
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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:44 AM

    Endemol knew all about it, they get lots of free publicity from it, and she gets her talentless ass back in the headlines for a bit. Everyone’s a winner. Now, who watches this crap? And why??

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    Mute Fran Cowzer
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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:16 AM

    without in any shape or form condoning the atrocities perpetrated by Hitler your now not allowed to have an opinion on history that took place good or bad how enlightened

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Aug 29th 2015, 11:21 AM

    Winston Churchill said after the war that the Allies backed the wrong horse and should have supported Nazi Germany against the USSR. If you say that today you’ll be blacklisted from pretty much everywhere.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 12:04 PM

    Have you links to anything on that Jason?

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    Aug 29th 2015, 2:05 PM

    It was on Churchill’s Bebo page, I think…

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:49 AM

    Who is she (Confused.com)

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:52 AM

    Go into pornhub and type in her name.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:03 AM

    I would be shot down by the Lord himself for looking at sites like that. (You did say pornhub)

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    Aug 29th 2015, 1:25 PM

    Ya,it’s only about 5 minutes long. Quick tug in the bathroom and your sorted. Just say you were shaving.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 3:59 PM

    There us s long version there somewhere too…

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:49 AM

    Is this utter garbage still going?. Anyone who watches this trollop is a disgrace to society.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:56 AM

    Fantastically sanctimonious

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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:52 AM

    Was obviously planned from the beginning in a vain attempt to attract viewers.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:45 AM

    I’d say if you asked this so called celeb what Hitler first name was she’d probably say Heil !

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:20 AM

    The title should be “faded celebrities Big Brother”

    I watched it last night and it must be so embarrassing for the “celebrities” to decide to be part of this show. On the other hand they need the money and it is watched by many.

    I only recognised the Guy who used to be in the Bill and the woman who used to be in Benidorm!

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:00 AM

    Who watches this sh!te

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:06 AM

    Such a sweet girl…..

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:38 AM

    A cringey show now for desperate wannabes and broke has beens

    Really is bottom of the barrel tv

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:26 AM

    I’m a fully paid up loony leftie member of the pc brigade and I have sympathy for Hitler. A bit more understanding and a lot less condemnation would not go amiss. What ever her name is welcome for a chat on my sofa any time. Bless.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:33 AM

    who?

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    Aug 29th 2015, 12:57 PM

    While I have never watched this, it does strike me that her human rights are being violated in that she is being punished for freely expressing her opinion.
    If she said she loved David Ben Gurion and dressed in Irgun uniform would she have been subject to the same sanction?

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:55 AM

    Journal I really like your service but please don’t print utter garbage news stories like this.

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    Mute MaryLou(ny)McDonald
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    Aug 29th 2015, 9:46 AM

    Count to ten before posting brain farts.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 10:18 AM

    Note to self?

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    Aug 29th 2015, 1:23 PM

    Farrah was in ‘Anal Teen Moms’ in 2013. And Jenna? Well, we all know about what she peddles. Strange value system we have.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 2:50 PM

    I think I saw ‘Anal teen Mums’. Wasn’t it a fly on the wall reality TV series documenting the struggles in the daily lives of young mothers with Asperger Syndrome.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 8:14 PM

    I’ll never forget that time that I was feeling a bit down, and I thought, you know what might cheer me up? An auld spot of fascism.

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    Aug 29th 2015, 1:37 PM

    who?

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    Aug 29th 2015, 1:39 PM

    ADL waiting in the long grass stikes again!

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    Aug 29th 2015, 5:56 PM

    What ‘celebrity’ will they put in next? ”Loveable Oirish rogue Stephen Clinch, from successful RTE crime drama Love/Hate?

    I genuinely thought the producers couldn’t sink any lower than putting Helen Wood back in to deliberate tyrannise people in this year’s regular BB, after she was warned for agressive bullying twice last year. Her claim to fame is sleeping with Wayne Rooney (as a prostitute) while Coleen was pregnant. Helen might just even be classier than Tila , Jenna or ‘Anal Teen Mom’, Farrah.

    Gladitorial contests where people had to fight off hungry wild animals don’t seem so barbarbic anymore.

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