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Phoenix Five (prank)
The Phoenix Five were a group of five University of California, Berkeley (Cal) students in Theta Chi who stole/liberated the Stanford Tree from the Band Shak on the campus of Stanford University in the early morning hours of October 17, 1998. The Phoenix Five held the costume and university's unofficial mascot "hostage" for two weeks, and the reaction to the heist by school administrators fueled a frenzy of media coverage which resulted in the prank being regarded as one of the most famous and notable in the history of the Big Game rivalry between Cal and Stanford. The Phoenix Five used pseudonyms to hide their true identities, going by Mr. Black, Mr. Green, Mr. Orange, Mr. White, and Mr. Yellow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2001/04/06/phoenix-five-claims-tree-theft/ )〕
==The Theft/Liberation of the tree==
The five Cal students were all members of the Mu Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity, and drove to the campus of Stanford University as part of a brotherhood activity. Their initial intent was to steal signs from the campus, as was a common prank in the lead-up to the Big Game, the annual football game between Cal and Stanford. Upon arrival, the students discovered that "Cardinal Chaos" was taking place that night, the first practice of the Stanford men's and women's basketball teams. Posing as Stanford students, the Five entered the event at Maples Pavilion and contemplated pulling a prank during the festivities, but failed to find any legitimate opportunity to do so. After the conclusion of Cardinal Chaos, the Five were by their car in an adjacent parking lot when they saw the Stanford Tree being taken away from the event by its handler, Chris Henderson. Interested in where the hated rival mascot was headed, the Five followed it and Henderson to the old Stanford Band Shak, the home of the Stanford Band. Discovering that a party was going on inside the Shak and now interested in the potential of getting close to the Tree, the Five decided to wait and see if the building would be fully vacated at some point during the early morning hours.
Returning to the Band Shak at approximately 4 a.m., the Five determined that the band's party had ended, although reconnaissance work was needed to ensure that no Stanford Band members were still inside of the building. As three of the group kept watch outside, the remaining two members entered the Band Shak through an open window and managed to locate the Tree after going through an old medical library and a wall. After procuring the Tree, the Five brought it out of the Band Shak through the front door, and quickly managed to squeeze it into the back of Mr. Green's car. As it would have taken a decent amount of time to fit three of the group's members into the back seat as well, the Tree was driven away from the Stanford campus and left in a nearby Palo Alto neighborhood. Once all five members returned to this safer location, they managed to fit themselves and the Tree into the car and drive back across the San Francisco Bay to the safe confines of the University of California.
The group later described the event as a "crime of opportunity", noting that they had no plans to steal the Tree upon arriving on the Stanford campus, and only happened to find it unattended the morning after seeing it at Cardinal Chaos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2001/04/06/column-phoenix-five-not-quite-immortal/ )〕
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