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Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 11/26/2005 - 4:39pm.

One morning a week a very noisy garbage truck would visit the common area between the four dorm buildings and wake up the residents with that annoying high-pitched alarm indicating the vehicle was moving in reverse. At some point we noticed the truck was visiting almost every morning. Did it have to be so loud, and so early, and so frequent?

Something about this didn't sound right to the housing officials. Upon investigation they discovered that the same guys who were behind the tic-tac-toe game (mentioned in Evergroove trivia, pt. 19) had also taped the annoying high-pitched alarm and were playing it at very early hours for the enjoyment of everyone.

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