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

Someone watched 'Mission: Impossible' too many times.
 By 
Chloe Bryan
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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.

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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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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