Crazy things you did in school, or what happened to you in school? (1 Viewer)

[Mark Frank]

This thread brought back some fun memories! Here's my contributions to the list:

1. In physics class, our classroom used lab tables in a big semi-circle shape around the main podium. Our physics teacher was demonstrating centrifugal(?) force with a hard rubber ball attached to a string and swinging it in a circle, basically demonstrating that the ball stayed in a circular motion because of the force of the string. However, if the force of the string was removed, the ball would travel in a straight line. The teacher let go of the string, but apparently didn't let go at the right time. The ball traveled at a high rate of speed across the room and tagged one of our best basketball players right in the nuts. He literally fell out of his chair in agony and the rest of us nearly fell out of our chairs laughing!

2. Many schools do senior pranks, but I'll have to admit this one was pretty original. Our high school had a JROTC team that always presented the colors before all our home basketball games. They also used rifles and actually fired blanks at one point during the pre-game festivities. A group of seniors managed to steal a set of school keys and broke into the school late one night and wired a contraption into the ceiling tiles of the gym that was operated with a garage door remote control. When the JROTC fired their rifles at the next home game, someone in the stands hit the remote control and a trapdoor opened in the ceiling and out fell a rubber chicken and tons of feathers. The entire stands busted out laughing.

 

[Philip_G]

And this one time, early one morning in the computer lab:
10 FOR I=1 to 20000000: NEXT
20 PRINT CHR$(7)
30 PRINT "(name of computer science teacher) SUCKS THE BIG ONE"
40 GOTO 20
(Edit: In Applesoft BASIC on a 1984-vintage Apple //e, line 10 causes a delay of about 5 hours. Plenty of time to make a clean getaway before the Infinite Loop of Beeping Hell in lines 20-40 commences, in other words. In C++ on an Athlon XP, the equivalent 'for' loop takes 80 milliseconds.)

heee hee basic was fun. Of course I took it in about 1995 on an apple II, my school wasn't the most up to date

 

[Charles J P]

The senior prank played by the class one year ahead of me was awesome. They rigged a radio into the PA system and played Adam Sandler's Meeting with a High School Principle and At a Medium Pace. The funniest part was that during the principle track, some of the teacher really thought it was the principle and he had flipped his wig. The prank was awesome. The only thing that bugged me about it was that - like I said, I went to a really small school - and the building was 4th - 12th grade, so there were some pretty young kids that heard it, and its pretty raunchy.

 

[Philip_G]

I did that once in college charles, I figured out that my dorm used to have an intercom in each room and phones in the hall for each floor, so all the wires to the rooms above me (11 floors or so?) ran through the box in my room, some quick work with some pliars and a little patching and I had my stereo hooked up to it, I didn't really undertand resistence at the time, I'm surprised I didn't blow my shelf system

 

[Rich Romero]

I do crazy things in school on a daily basis. All who know me well think I'm the funniest guy they've ever met. I'm hyper-active so being a bit on the crazy side has come natural to me all my life. Not to brag, but everything I've read so far in this thread is amateur punk stuff.

 

[Ted Lee]

The Math Teacher
i had a teacher in math class that i did not get along with. he used to do stupid stuff and (imo) specifically pick on me. one time he said he would not start class until i put both my feet on the floor (instead of the chair-bar thing). that's when i lost it. i started yelling back saying how unfair he was, etc. the capper is when i said, "what is wrong with you? did you get beat up by some asian girl when you were little?". the entire class erupted in laughter. amazingly, the teacher did nothing.
Magic Mountain
for a class field trip. my friend and i are on the 'revolution'. at some point the ride breaks down and we're stuck for a while. my friend pulls out one of those markers that write in glitter. he proceed to write "hoke han and ted lee are awesome" right on the inside of the car we're sitting in. as the day ends and we return to the bus, two of the teachers come up to us and say they'll see us first thing monday morning. take a wild guess at what two teachers sat in the exact same car we were in.
The Wrestling Coach
it's raining outside so the tennis team is inside the gym. a friend and i are bouncing the tennis ball around when the coach comes up to us and states if we continue to do that he'll wrap the tennis racket around our necks! boy, i'm not having any of that. i proceed to wave my racket directly in his face and blurt something back. after i turn my back, he decides to tackle me. note that my back was turned and i was walking away! anyway, you can imagine what a fight i was putting up, but he had me in a pretty good headlock. anyway, i let the priciple know exactly what happened...everyone in the gym backed up my story. i told the principal i'd threaten to sue the guy. unfortunately, being a naive kid they were still able to suspend me for one day - they wanted five days but my mom gave them heck.
My Friend's Parents Car
umm...better not go into too much detail here. let's just say we borrowed something without permission, then proceeded to...ummm...disable it in such a way it was extremely expensive for them to fix. i should emphasize that the parents never figured out what happened. going over to the house after that was quite stressful.
The Perkodin Challenge
up to that point, i'd never experimented with drugs. my friends bring in a few perkodin that he steals from his parents and dares me to take them. i figure, what the heck. i took something like 4 of them in one shot. i was big-time looped the rest of the day...everyone knew and was laughing at me.
Cuz I'm a Criminal!
hmm...better not go into too much detail here. let's just say i did have somewhat of a reputation for doing "not quite the right things". when i look back i'm pretty surprised that i never got busted.
i miss high-school...they were the best times! i'd do it over in a second!

 

[Patrick McCart]

In one history class, we watched a video about the French Revolution. When the famous "cake" quote was said, I added "and ice cream!"

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Oh, yeah, there was this one physics teacher we all loved (her name is Jackie Kern by the way ) we made a sign for her called, "The Jackie Kern Highway" and placed it below a bridge. Thought I'd tell ya.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

I'm going to be a Junior in High School, so I'm not done yet. Thanks for the ideas!

Our 8th grade English teacher was from the South, so she had a pretty strong accent. She was also pretty dumb and I have a TON of stories.

One day, she brought in fresh flowers and put them in the vase on her desk. Someone proceeded to cut the tops of them off. She came in, saw them, and then said "What happened to my flowers?" The kid told her she didn't get good ones. She believed him.

There are more stories, but none that are really THAT interesting. Most of them involve stupid stuff (throwing pencils in the ceiling, making the iMacs saying "(so and so) is gay," opening people's files on the iMacs and then putting random curses in the text) but there is one that I will never forget. During Writing Workshop (we pretty much write for an hour) this one kid decided to go pretend to sharpen his pencil by the blackboard. The pencil sharpener was right next to a bookcase, so while he was there (and our teacher, same english teacher as before, was reading) he would hump the bookcase. He did this many times, so eventually the whole class was watching. Finally, he goes up, drops his pants (not underwear, just pants), grabs the bookcase, and gives it a few good humps. The whole class erupts in laughter, but it takes our teacher a few seconds to see the kid, who is now pulling up his pants. He didn't get in trouble.

Last year (sophomore), last day of school before spring break. Our school was hosting the debate competition for the whole district. Some kids wanted to get suspended so they wouldn't have to come back to school right after the break, so they decided to start a food fight. They put their food on their laps, flipped the tables, and launch the food. Since everyone in our school eats at the same time, kids can eat in the cafeteria or the gym. The debate teams from other schools were eating in the cafeteria, where the food fight started. So they got caught in the middle of everything (in their nice clothes, which is standard debate attire) and the teachers and such in the school had to break everything up. That led to several hundred students being stuck in the lobby, which almost led to a riot. One kid even tried to throw a recycling bin at the vice principal.

Two years ago (freshman) our group of friends decided to have fun at lunch. We cracked open a bag of chips, start throwing them around, decide to pour some water on the table (we were constantly getting eachother soaked that year at any possible moment) and then leave everything. Three of us got called down to the office (my friend Kim, my friend Caitlin, and me) and we were told to wait for the vice principal to return to her office. We were stuck there for at least an hour, during which we came up with some extremely dirty jokes and made fun of everything as much as possible, so by the time the vice principal came back, we couldn't hold it together. We sat down in our office and couldn't hold it. Apparently, she (vice principal) only knew about the chips. We told her that another kid did it.

In 6th grade, I played a joke on my friend. "What's the capital of Thailand? Bangkok!" (proceed to punch testicles REALLY hard). He had to go to the nurse, who then made him report it to the vice principal. Suffice to say, I got called down to the office and had to hear the VP (who was this big tough guy with a deep voice and a crooked nose) say "your son punched a student in the testicles" on the phone with my dad. I spoke to my dad on the phone soon after, and he was laughing. My friend said he didn't want to get me in trouble, I told him it was no biggie.

Last year (sophomore) we were taking a test for the Math League competition in math class. One student knew he wouldn't do good (it didn't count for our grades) so he asked our teacher if he could play music for us while we took the test. She let him, so he got a friend to come into the class and help him (both had guitars). They played some songs during the test, and afterwars, I asked if he would take a request. He said sure, so I requested Baby Got Back. A few seconds into the song, the teacher stopped him, asking if the song was dirty. He said no, then proceeded to play. He got to say "that butt you got make's me-me-me so horny" and when she was about to stop him, the bell rang.

In World Cultures (sophomore), students from another class would take the teacher's things (I had her class in a different period) and proceed to duct tape them to high spots on the wall so she couldn't reach. Such objects included the stapler, her gradebook, and she caught them trying to put her chair up there. That teacher also had a grudge against an english teacher (a friendly, joke grudge; they're both cool teachers) and she got one of her students to steal stuff from his room. He then took that student, put her in a chair, made her hold a sign that said "traitor," and took a picture of it.

Man, I need to do more fun/outrageous stuff.

 

[Charles J P]

I do have to say, that while I pulled my share of pranks, and most of the stories here are pretty harmless, this is exactly why there is a such shortage of teachers in the US and especially good ones. Destroying their property, harassing them, getting up in their face, not listening to simple instructions or behaving like an adult, hell it sounds like one person describes an outright assault on a teacher. Its pretty bad when you think about it, and none of this behavior would fly in the "real world" most of it would get you fired or worse.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

Charles:

My stories about my English teacher stem from the fact that she was a horrible teacher. She also had absolutely no idea how to act around us.

My World Cultures teacher from last year was really fun and had a good sense of humor. She actually told us the story of the kids putting her things on the wall and said she thought it was hilarious.

It should also be noted that some of the worst obscenities I've ever heard utterred in school came from teachers. Some are also extremely rude (to good students) and don't give respect to anyone. There're even some teachers that have been caught doing things worse than what people in this thread have said, so it's not like as though the students are much worse.

 

[CharlesD]

hmmm...
Well one time a friend and myself stole some wine from a storage room in the classroom block. He was small enough to slip through a window we somehow managed to open and passed out several bottles. We also accidentally dropped a couple of bottles and even later threw in a stink bomb or 2 to cover up the smell. I am amazed we got away with that!
In chemistry we studied a reaction that gave off acetylene. Another friend of mine and I figured out we could make an oxy-acetylene torch... we used an empty cylinder of solder taken from the Physics lab, stole the chemicals from the Chemistry lab, placed them in the tube and secured a lid pierced with the largest hypodermic needle we were able to steal from the Biology lab. The reaction forced the acetylene through the needle and mixed with oxygen in the air which we lit... for a minute or so we had a bright white flame with which we set things on fire with until the heat melted the needle enough to close off the flow!
(yes were were both total geeks)

 

[Kevin Potts]

Every so often, a kid discovers something that, at the time, appears to be the coolest thing he's ever seen. Hence was the case one day at lunch when a friend of mine showed me how to modify a butane lighter so that the flame will shoot up to previously unattainable heights.

All was good and well until it quit working during my 4th hour drafting class. At the time, our regular teacher had taken ill, or was otherwise absent from his duties on this particular day. Filling in as his replacement was a man named Mr. Stutesman who, ironically enough, talked with a stutter and sounded a bit like Elmer Fudd. As I was sitting at my desk trying to light my new found toy, I noticed that Mr. Stutterman (as we so lovingly referred too him as) had taken up interest in my activities since I was far from being consumed in my work for that day. My friend sitting next to me was also watching intently when my brightly colored plastic buddy, finally decided to light up.

Up and up, rose this blue and orange flame until it could, quite literally, rise no higher. As I looked up in awe at what I had just witnessed, and at the black sooty marks now present on a few of the ceiling tiles, I saw our slightly perplexed, and very pissed off teacher coming my way. While I sat there for that instant and awaited the wrath and fury of this smallish man, practically tripping over chairs and other obstacles in his hurry to get to me, I never realized how hard I would be laughing just a few seconds later.

Before the man ever even reached my desk the words started coming out of his mouth. "La...la...le...gu...gu...gi... give me that damn lighter." As I was still a bit shellshocked over what had just transpired the only words that I could think of were, "Uh...uh...uh...okay man!" The rest of the class was, by this time rolling on the floor in laughter at Mr. S's stuttering reaction and my mocking words directed his way.

Although I do still feel badly for making fun of the guy like I did, he was a bit of a jackass. I know that doesn't excuse what I did, which to this day, I'm still amazed that I went unpunished.

 

[Gordon Moore]

In grade 6 or 8 (can't remember) our history teacher taped a pbs special over one of his porno tapes. When the pbs program finshed, apparently, sex-ed began...'cuz what we saw changed our life
He still taught, no one reported him and it was pretty funny situation... I've never seen a person run from the back wall and hit the stop button on a VCR with such accuracy before (mind you 80's VCR buttons were huge! ).
This was the 80's and things were a little more lax back then. Ah the 80's...I soooooo miss them.

 

[Max Knight]

Back in high school some friends and I did the old "run a fake person for class president" trick. But we did a slight modification on it, and didn't let anyone else know our candidate was fake (easier to do in a 3000 kid school). So everyone (save us) who signed his petition thought he was real. The only catch was that we listed his homeroom as one of the school offices on all the forms.

After getting Matthew E. Tuttle on the ballot, we started making posters for him with slogans like "Matthew Tuttle, he's there when you need him." and "Matthew Tuttle, the name you can trust." We got these approved by the school and put them everywhere.

So finally the big speech day comes around, and we had a plan all worked out. We were going to tell the administrators that Matthew was out sick, but that he gave us his speech to read. The speech we had prepared was such that no student in their right mind would ever vote for Matthew, who wanted to shorten lunch time, get rid of study halls, and was generally against all popular student activities. The problem was that the administrators wouldn't let us make the speech! And that no guys had decided to run, so the only dude on the ballot was fake!

When the announcer started reading off the list of students, she also listed their homeroom. As soon as Mr. Tuttle's homeroom was listed, we saw the "dean of students" Dr. McLauren's eyes bug out, and he ran down to the podium and had a hurried conference with Mrs. Hunter the announcer. Mrs. Hunter went on the mic, told everyone Matthew Tuttle didn't exist, that some students didn't respect the democratic process, and that everything was going to be better with only women in charge. This got a lot of boos from the Thug contingent of the student body.

Since me and my friends had all applauded wildly when Tuttle was announced, they figured it had to be us. We were hauled into the office and told that our transgression was so bad that we had to have a "trial". Let's just say that the day of the trial a large percentage of the school (including a number of the teaching staff) had "Matthew Tuttle Lives!" stickers proudly displayed on their shirts. We denied all knowledge of the stickers, and eventually got off scott free due to some student's bill of rights violations by Dr. McLauren.

All that's left now are fond memories (my sister who is 4 years behind me and went to the same high school said people still talked about it), and a great picture of me holding my diploma and shaking hands with Dr. McLauren while we give each other the 1000 yard stare.

 

[Paul Richardson]

In high school I drew a short comic book parodying one of the teachers in a not-so-subtle way (nothing too scandalous). I photocopied it for a few select friends, but they thought it was too funny to keep to themselves, so they distributed a few more copies to other students and I gandered a pretty wide readership.

In fact, after I graduated my sister went to the same school, and people were still reading and distributing the "anonymous" comic, but she recognized my art style. Word is that the teacher himself had read the comic and thought it was pretty funny (he had a pretty good sense of humor). As far as I know, years later, the comic may very well still be circulating (the teacher is still there).

 

[Howard Williams]

Here's the craziest thing that ever happened to me in high school.

I was a senior running for ASBP (Associated Student Body President). The entire 12th grade and faculty was in the Gym to hear our speeches. I was sitting in one corner on the third to the highest bleacher, about 10' off the ground. I had my coolest suit on, nice shoes etc. Well guess who sits right behind me. One of the weirdest, creepiest bullies in the whole school. At the time I was 6'2" and maybe weighed 140lbs soaking wet with my shoes on. So of course this guy starts teasing me verbally. I ignored him completely. Then he starts messing with my hair. I continued to ignore him. Then he started hitting me. My opponent is for giving his speech for President and this weird guy is sitting behind me, calling me names and hitting and then, I lost it. I swear I felt like "The Hulk". Anger & rage swelled up inside me. With it came a sense of strength and a need to inflict pain and suffering on this creep. I turned around and grabbed this weirdo guy by his shirt and I was in position and ready to heave him off the bleachers, about a 12' drop, right on his freakin' head. I know he was more surprised than I was. I saw the look in his eyes and he saw mine. I had his sorry butt inches from the ledge before he knew what was happening. I was totally ready to heave this piece of crap before he could grab my arms. Only the people very nearby noticed the commotion. The moment of truth came. Heave or stand down. All of a sudden my senses returned to me. I let him go. I returned to my seat and just sat there. I was pretty unaware of what was going on around me for about 3 minutes, then I heard my named called. It was time for me to deliver my speech. On my way to the podium I somehow managed to shake off the entire incident. I delivered my speech with ease and comfort. I thought it was a very well crafted speech too, for the record. I sucked up to all the popular people and told the masses just what they wanted to hear, just like a true politician. I was confident and charismatic, much more so than my opponent. I left feeling great.

Did I win the election? No. One year later I was informed by a very reliable source that the vote count was corrupted. Believe it or not the two people that counted the votes were guess who. My opponents' girlfriend and her best friend. Never even dawned on me at the time. I was so naive and trustful back then. I often wonder how my life might have changes if I had won that position, kinda like that movie with Peter (John's brother) Belushi, "Mr Destiny". Things that make ya go Hmmmmm.

 

[Alan Benson]

Being a complete drama queen--and having an excruciatingly difficult time facing that I was gay--I needed some excuse to break it off with a girl who had started calling herself my girlfriend.
I wanted something big that would let me push everyone away... And something that no one would blame me for. So I pretended to go blind. Yep. First, I poured liquid drano into my eyes, and stared at the sun alot. Got sent to half-a-dozen specialists--who were convinced something was really wrong.
Long story short, I spent my final two years of HS faking near-complete blindness. Now that's crazy...
This was well over 20 years ago, so it's not something I think about often... But I'm living in my old hometown again now, and I get the occasional odd stare at the grocery store from someone who thinks they may recogize the blind kid from HS...

 

[Cam S]

Yep. First, I poured liquid drano into my eyes, and stared at the sun alot.

How can you fake blindness by doing that?? That's sounds like a pretty safe bet to GO BLIND, permanently!

 

[Gordon Moore]

First, I poured liquid drano into my eyes, and stared at the sun alot.

Dear Lord! You're lucky you didn't go blind permanently.
There used to be this theory about what makes you go blind but I'm pretty confident that it isn't true (*cough* errr, ummmm, so I've been told...think Seinfeld's contest in case anyone is in the dark) :b
Maybe you should have tried everclear...that stuff WILL make you go blind