This happened many years ago. During the Oxford Rag Week, one of the cheapest - and most dramatic with far reaching effects ever to take place, was when students espied three Irish workmen digging up the road. They phoned the police to pass on the information that three students were masquerading as roadman and were going to dig a damn great hole in the middle of the road and then walk off. They then shot full speed over to these navvies and told them that three students masquerading as police were coming over to arrest them! These three dummies bought it, roared with laughter and said:"Thanks - we'll be waiting!" Of course when the police did arrive, they pelted them with wet sponges and everything else under the sun!
All three were duly arrested for damaging police property - police uniforms etc.
Luckily the case was thrown out of court with the magistrate saying that the police at no time asked to see their contractor's sheet etc. and that university students had made a laughing stock of the police force. "Most students are aged between nineteen and thirty. These roadmen were in their fifties - case dismissed!" Nobody found out who was responsible.
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