College student crawls through air ducts in quest to steal stats exam

Friends, this is what happens when you watch Mission: Impossible too many times.

Two students at the University of Kentucky are facing burglary charges after crawling through campus ceiling ducts to steal a statistics exam from their professor's office. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, 21-year-old junior Henry Lynch II dropped into the room through the ceiling, let in his friend Troy through the door, then started to rummage around for the test.

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Unfortunately, their professor had only gone out for a snack, and when he returned to a barricaded office door, he called the police. And, uh, that was the end of that heist — a disappointment considering the two dudes had successfully pilfered another exam earlier that semester.

Not to be a Boring Adult or whatever, but perhaps they should have studied instead.

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