Capping stunt

Capping Stunt or the capping is a New Zealand university tradition wherein students perpetrate a hoax upon an unsuspecting population. They are traditionally executed near May during graduation.

It is suspected that the Waiheke Island Foot and Mouth disease threat of May 2005 to be a capping stunt by Massey University in Palmerston North. A letter was sent to Prime Minister Helen Clark saying that disease had been released onto the island. Police said that the letter came from the Manawatu Region, and coincided with graduation week.