Amusing Incidents at School

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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When I was about 10, we did a ‘safety day’ at a local centre, run by the police- it was supposed to teach what to do in an emergency and things, via roleplay and stuff.

At one point, we were told to wait outside a door until a policeman showed up and took us to the next section. Sure enough, a few minutes later, a guy shows up in police uniform, and tells us to follow him. The group of 5 or so of us do, and he walks round the building, and starts off down the street… this seems odd. Me and one other girl follow warily, whispering what to do, and, a few minutes and quite some distance later, were juuuust on the edge of making a run for it, when a policewoman suddenly runs up behind us yelling ‘STOP!’

Turns out, the guy was supposed to start leading us off, then halfway round the building, the woman should appear and point out to us that at the start of the day, we were told a) all the sessions were on the same site, and b) all policemen taking part would have a name badge on, which the guy we were following did not, and tell us we really needed to pay more attention before going off with strangers. However, due to a mix up, she was waiting on the wrong side of the building, and the guy had no idea what to do, so was just leading us off in some random direction towards the centre of town, rather than break character…

Accidental abduction by police, great planning!

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One day somebody put Limburger cheese on a radiator under the stair well. More gross than amusing.

My high school was really big, we had 5 buildings and like 2500 students.
One day the building I was in had a fire drill and while I was outside some older friends had come by to visit the school (back in the days when we had open campus and anybody could walk right in). I mentioned to my friends that I had seen so and so during the fire drill and they were like, ‘what fire drill??!!’. Who knew that sometimes only certain buildings had fire drills? I spent the rest of the day wondering if I had been so stoned I just got up and walked out of class thinking it was a fire drill. The next day I asked the guy next to me if we’d really had a fire drill. He understood.

Another day, this really cute guy (too bad I missed it) dropped some acid and freaked out and took all his clothes off and streaked through the school, outside and in the buildings. He was so embarrassed he quit school for a year and came back the next year. The next year streaking was in, too bad he didn’t know he was a trend setter.

One day I blew up some stuff in Chemistry class that the teacher swore wouldn’t blow up. He was a pretty cool teacher.

When our English teacher was out for a few weeks, the student teacher substitute read to us what was considered to be Ancient Greek Porn. It wasn’t all that bad.

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My ninth grade band director was a volatile little man. When he was angry at us he’d yell and jump up and down on his podium, which was a hollow wooden platform.

One day in the middle of a particularly fierce tirade he jumped up and then crashed right through the middle of the podium and hit the floor. To his credit he let us laugh ourselves out, and once he’d extracted himself he even held up the broken pieces of wood for us to admire.

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Fourth grade. The teacher (name forgotten) was almost totally blind and had coke bottle glasses that she hated to wear. It was great fun to take a piece of chalk and draw a straight line on the floor, about two inches long, right under the blackboard. She’d spend several minutes trying to pick up a piece of chalk that wasn’t there.

High school. Senior year, we had three cherry bombs down the johns. The students thought it was funny as hell until the guy doing them got caught and arrested.

At graduation, guys had to wear a white shirt and a tie while we had the gowns on; the girls had to wear a white collared shirt. I wore a tie with a hand-painted nude on it, my girlfriend wore just the top of the shirt and a bikini. When we took off the gowns to turn them in, we caused somewhat of a scandal.

Good times.

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Would you mind revealing what school this was? I’m interested schools old enough to have ancient fortresses of buildings. Of course, if you don’t want to I understand.

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College is school, isn’t it?

Once, while visiting a girlfriend at her all-girls college, they sneaked me into their dorm for a week. The 5 story dorm looked down on the first floor of the building; girls would come to the second floor and climb out the windows onto the roof to sunbathe. It’s above the neighboring houses and such, no one can see, so many of the girls would sunbathe nude.

One of the girls on the 5th floor and I decided to drop water balloons on them one day. We filled dozens, and kept them by the window until the attack, then, bombs away! Literally.

As the girls 4 stories below screamed for mercy, we just laughed and kept pitching balloons out the window. Only later did we learn that each balloon landed and sent the gravel covering the roof out like schrapnel. Lucky we didn’t put out someone’s eye!

Sorry, ladies.

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Oh, I don’t mind. It was Tosa East high school, just west of Milwaukee. And it’s old enough… four generations of some families have been students there, and a restoration project uncovered several WPA murals on the walls of what was formerly the school’s main entrance; the murals had been painted in the 1930s and subsequently covered up.

Here’s a shot with the tower. But the whole third floor was condemned some years ago, and the tower demolished. Sigh… so many pranks up there…

But, seriously, who puts a teacher who’s deathly afraid of heights in a 5th floor tower with all the windows open? (and not even screens, when I was there)

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Took three years of German in high school, and had the same teacher all three years. Herr O was a lot of fun. One day we had an assembly, so classes were shortened; we spent the entire period in Herr O’s class listening to Cheech & Chong’s recently released first album (“Dave’s not here, man”).

Herr O’s birthday was during the school year, and we had a party for him every year. I think it was 12th grade when one of the presents we gave him was a block of beeswax and some cheesecloth, so he could polish his scalp under the combover. He didn’t mind though, especially after he discovered that the other present was a fifth of Seagram’s…

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Physician heal thyself.

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One poor kid threw up during our Social Studies exam and missed the next few days of school.

Next day:
Friend #1 to teacher: “Miss Bares, what did Ronin get on his test?”
Friend #2: “A peach.”

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Senior year, I was sitting in English and I look out the window to see Mike running by with one of the gym teachers chasing him. Then he ran by again, followed by the teacher. Mike was caught with drugs and tried to take off and he was pretty fast but I think he kept running running around the school instead of away from the school. Apparently, he was signed up to join the Marines under delayed entry and this disqualified him. Ooops.

In chemistry my Junior year, the AP Chem teacher next door walked into the class and set down a beaker, then left. Shortly after that, the whole room smelled like vomit. Our teacher picked up the offending beaker and took it next door to the Biology teacher. When he came back we asked him why he didn’t take it back to the AP chem teacher and he replied “Oh, I’m not going to screw around with him.”

I may have mentioned this one on the board before but I still love this story. In science my Freshman year, the teacher wanted us to bring in a science-related newspaper or magazine article and a brief write up every Friday. On thanksgiving week, we were to bring on in on Wednesday and I knew my classmate Chad would have forgotten his, so I clipped an article about Big John Studd and Refrigerator Perry and the upcoming Wrestlemania, typed up a summary where Perry called his opponent “Big John Dud” and turned that in for Chad.

We watched a movie in the class while the teacher graded the papers in the back. Towards the end of class, I saw him hand the paper to Chad. Chad looked a little confused and then started laughing and showing it to people sitting near him. When the bell rang he came up to me and had it figured out that I did it. I actually helped out Chad because he got the opportunity to get full credit if he brought a “real” science article in on Monday to replace the “non-science” article.

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The boys’ lockerroom at my HS had a storage room attached, right next to the toilets; lot’s of atheletic equipment, including all the balls [insert joke here] so the girls’ PE teacher would often have to go into the lockerroom. She would wait until the boys had entered the gym, and get the OK from boys’ teacher. Which they always gave wether or not anyone was still in the lockerroom. She’d often catch straglers still getting changed. Or using the toilet. BTW the toilet stalls didn’t have doors on them. :eek: Which is why nobody wanted to use them until everyone else had left. She never caught me, but did catch one of my friends. One morning she caught 3 football players who were coming out of the shower (almost nobody showered after class). One of whom was bragging about how much head he was getting since he shaved his crotch. By that afternoon the entire school seemed to be aware.

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nm… hit submit too soon.

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Back in September 1978, two Popes died within a short time of each other, Paul IV and John Paul I.

I had a friend, Lisa, who believed (because her mother believed) in all sorts of hooey. The National Enquirer, Star, etc filled their mailboxes every week, and they bought all of it (this was in the days with the NE would print pictures of dead celebrities.)

Anyway, I was a little shit, so I decided to have some fun with her. I told Lisa that Nostradamus predicted that the world would end at noon the Friday after two Popes died in rapid succession.

She believe me, which I thought she would.

Two days later, some kid comes up to me in school and says “Didja hear? The world is going to end this Friday! It was in the Bible!”

:smiley:

So this rumor is running rampant through the school (obviously Lisa wasn’t the only gullible person in re: to prophecy, but you know, it was the late 70s. Hazy, crazy times.)

So we are in the cafeteria - lunch ran across the 12:00pm hour - and about 5 minutes before noon it starts getting quieter… and quieter… and quieter.

The teachers ate on a stage in the cafeteria and I’m sure they knew what was going on, but a couple might have looked nervous as well… or it’s my childish imagination coupled with hazy memories that makes me think that.

Anyway, about 1 minute to noon, the cafeteria is completely silent. A room full of 100+ kids and nary a peep out of all of them.

The clock sweeps towards noon, everybody holding their breath… it passes noon, goes towards 12:01… everybody breathes a sigh of relief… the kids started murmuring, then talking, then back to the normal screams and yells of kids.

It was one of the weirdest things I ever saw. And I caused it! :smiley:

I don’t think I was ever fingered as the initial rumor starter.

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Freshman year of college. At the start of every class the psych teacher would ask a random student “What is psychology?” the student would always answer “Psychology is a science.” After 2 weeks the teacher asks me, “What is psychology?” I shrug and answer, “The systematic torture of white rats?” The class chuckles. The teacher loses it. He starts screaming “Psychology is a Science!!” over and over. He storms out of the room, slams the door and lets out a huge scream. We all fall silent for a few seconds then start laughing like crazy.

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I was on our school newspaper staff. Using Find & Replace I managed to turn an article about the annual “Breakfast with Santa” to “Breakfast with Satan”. I honestly never imagined it would really get to the printers, but it did. :smiley: When they arrived I managed to snag a few before the journalism teacher saw them. For obvious reasons the school didn’t want to distribute them. And no, I didn’t get caught. Mrs M. did get alot more carefull about making sure she logged off her computer after that.

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That’s a goodie, Alphaboi. :smiley:
When I was a senior at Redondo High (1967), a senior girl named Roberta drove her new, red VW beetle up a 20% grade behind a field house next to the football field, near the end of the year. She tried to, anyway. The car apparently stalled. Why she did this I don’t know–she was of the Alexis Carrington stripe and supposedly wielded a lot of power over the student body, because her mother was the Home Teacher. And Roberta was quite intellectual, and could be deadly serious. In any case, word got around. I thought it was a silly thing to do. :rolleyes:

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When I was in high school, we were sitting in Chemistry class listening to the teacher lecture. The classroom had high work tables and high stools (like bar stools). The teacher had this really nice aluminum yardstick sitting on the table.

One of the guys had picked up the yardstick and, holding it vertically, had wedged one end against the table with his stomach and was absently bending the yardstick down to the table, like a spring. All of a sudden, in the midst of the lecture, he happened to let go of the end and it slapped up and smacked him in the face. Almost broke his nose.

The teacher looked at him and said, “Why did you do that?”

He answered, “I have absolutely no idea!”

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Search on Blood on the Highway. Had a couple of kids faint in class. There are one or two kinda gruesome scenes of traffic accident victims that could have been from Zombie Resurrection.