MIT students are always causing trouble. Whether it's hacking their campus or terrrozing innocent machine-gun-toting security personnel, MIT kids are Boston's lovable scamps. They might be a pain in the ass, but you just want to tousle their hair.
So, when news broke that two private investigators were busted in Harvard's Kirkland House dormitory, we weren't surprised to learn that MIT, or, more specifically, MIT's Crime Club, was behind it.
What's the MIT Crime Club? A pack of beavers dressed like Carmen Sandiego, from the looks of the club's Web site. The MIT Crime Club is an amateur sleuthing society that tracks and tries to solve all manner of unsolved crime, on MIT's campus and off it. (The group even Twitters its doings.) Notable recent successes include the geeky discovery of illegal domain-name infringement, possibly by the government of Sudan.
According to its Web site, the Crime Club "is assisting a private detective agency with its investigation of the wrongful killing of a Cambridge resident, Justin Cosby, 21, in a Harvard dormitory," which would be the same detective agency whose agents were nabbed by Harvard police yesterday. Is the club out to acquit Bed-Stuy rags-to-riches-to-scapegoat Chanequa Campbell, or was it looking, like its digital inspiration, for a punning clue to the true killer's current whereabouts ("robbing the bank of the Nile," for example)?
But here's a more pressing question. Private detectives are expensive. Where does the MIT Crime Club get the cash to pay them?
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