A pack of Wolves set up home on campus.... or do they?

A GROUP of students from Cheltenham have pulled off quite an elaborate prank that had the others stumped. For about 5 minutes.

A picture taken from the Facebook warning page. 

Monday morning, students of Park Campus, Gloucestershire University, awoke to a warning from an email address glos-student-alerts@live.co.uk alerting them to the fact that a pack of wolves had gotten on to there campus and set up home. With the email stating: ‘’ We would advise students to carry a large rump steak with them at all times to be used to distract the wolves in the event of a confrontation, and to give you enough time to make your escape."

 Students were stumped. As a campus set amongst acres of beautiful land it could be believable, however the senders of the email also set up a Facebook group with further warnings and a set of unbelievable photos, that had clearly been photo-shopped of lifted from Google images, supposedly taken on campus. This is when students believed it was untrue and started with the jokes.

A picture taken from the Facebook warning page.

Jon Love, 19, a student from Cheltenham, said: “ I genuinely believed it, that might make me gullible but I don’t care. The email looked genuine, although the bit about the rump steak did put a bit of doubt in my mind. But the Facebook page was a step too far, not many university officials would do that and now we’re just having fun with it. We don’t know who set up the prank, but its given us a few dayss entertainment.” 

The university released an official email stating: “ A group calling themselves ‘Student Alert Team’ have been randomly emailing students with entirely fictitious information. The email address they use to send this information is glos-student-alert@live.co.uk. These are spam emails and should be ignored and disregarded.