Student prank sees giant haggis travel to Inverness
Deadlinenews.co.uk
January 26th, 2012
College students caused a Burns Night stir after putting a 5ft model haggis on a train.
The madcap students put the papier mache haggis on the 2pm Kirkcaldy to Inverness service yesterday, hoping an amused passenger might collect it at the other end for a Burns Night supper.
Sure enough, the haggis – complete with a pink kilt – was rescued by a businessman in the Highlands capital and whisked away to a celebration of the Scottish Bard”™s life.
The haggis, made by students at Adam Smith college, Kirkcaldy, Fife, even sported a Paddington Bear-style tag with contact information for the college, in case he got lost.
The 5ft model was placed in the luggage department in the last compartment of the busy train.
A businessman, named by local press as Kit Fraser, collected the haggis from the station to be his guest of honour at a Burns Night supper for an accountancy firm. Continue reading “Haggis To Go”