A group of Exeter students have been asked to write letters of apology to the BBC after they damaged a valuable photocopier being stored in their JCR by makers of The One Show.
The team from The One Show were in Oxford on Wednesday 13 November to film Children in Need and were storing the photocopier, reportedly worth £2,500, in the college JCR overnight.
Students returned from a night out and began photocopying parts of their anatomy, including their faces, which resulted in damage to the photocopier. Those involved were recognised by photocopies of their faces left in the JCR, and have been reprimanded for their actions by Exeter’s Junior Dean, Dr Rini Adriga.
According to one Exeter student, who wished to remain anonymous, “Basically what happened was, the BBC stupidly went and left a plugged-in photocopier with paper etc in our JCR on a Wednesday night. Everyone went to Park End and got plastered and went back to the JCR to eat their Hassans.”
The student added, “People started photocopying their faces and other body parts but were too drunk to make sure they picked up all the copies of their faces.”
There have been suggestions that the BBC team were tempting fate by leaving the machine in such a public space. Another student, who was not involved in the incident, commented, “If someone leaves a photocopier lying about then it’s inevitable that drunk people are going to find it hard to resist having a play. But of course this is no excuse and I know that the people involved are very sorry.”
Dr Adriga declined to comment on the incident.
