Objects On King's College Chapel
One story tells of a couple of students with a keen interest in climbing, who decided to scale the walls of King's College chapel after hours and place a roadcone (or similar object) atop one of the spires. On discovering the object the next morning, the college are said to have called in a building company to erect scaffolding in order to remove the offending object. However, the erection of the scaffolding could not be completed before dusk, and so the adventurous students ascended the chapel the next night and moved the roadcone to the opposite end of the chapel's roof, thus rendering the half-erect scaffolding useless.
In 2002 a toilet seat placed by a student on one of the spires remained there, eventually being retrieved by a steeplejack.
In late November 2009 santa hats were placed on each of the four spires of King's College Chapel overnight. The College had these removed by a professional steeplejack at great expense.
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