Someone Wonders "What Was 'The Incident' In Your High School?" And 30 People Give Interesting And Insane Stories

During lunch if you picked up trash and turned it in to the yard attendant you would get a dime per piece. One kid did it religiously, every lunch, and was tormented and bullied the whole time. Kids would knock the trash out of his hands, push him over when he picked it up, call him all sorts of names, they were relentless. Than in Junior year, he bought a '66 mustang.

Not an incident really, but I still have respect for that kid.

Principal found weed in the boys bathroom. Called an assembly and told us we had to vote for who we think it was. I think the principals son got like 98% of the votes. Suddenly the voting system wasn't valid.

We didn't even coordinate it, everyone had the same idea at once and it was glorious

During my senior year, the biggest fight of my school career broke out in one of the main hallways during class change. I don't think a single student in attendance that afternoon wasn't packed like a sardine somewhere in that hall. We were going absolutely nuts; jumping, screaming, chanting "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT." Riot mode at this point, really. It was impossible to see who was fighting, much less break it up or make your way through. Principal realized that fairly quickly and called the police to send help. About 10-15 mins later, 10 officers show up and bust through the crowd within seconds only to find 2 students sitting criss cross on the floor playing a few rounds of rock em sock em robots. Senior prank of the century... absolutely hilarious and 100% safely executed. Quality senior prank!

Not high school but I remember in elementary school, we got put on lockdown because someone thought there was a rabid fox on the field. It was a fat orange cat.

Senior year we received our yearbooks the week of graduation and to our surprise the full page action shot for men's soccer showcased our player jumping up and lifting one leg to trap and control the ball. Unfortunately, he forgot to wear underwear that game and the tip of his weiner was fully visible sticking out of the bottom of his shorts.

Our school had over 4,000 students and we were required to bring our yearbook in to security to have the d**k sharpied over or we would not be able to walk at graduation.

I went to a private school where you weren't allowed to have your phone on you. One day the vice principal bursts into a classroom and says in a panic "quick, I need to use someone's phone!" 10 kids got detention and their phones confiscated.

Screw you Mr. Kiefer

When I was in high school, our hick town school had a “gang” called the Cobras who would spray paint “Cobras” on school property, write it on desks, in the bathrooms, basically everywhere. It’s was dumb and many of the students had a good idea who was a part of this “gang” but the teachers didn’t.

The principal would call down groups for photos in the year book (siblings, sports teams, drama club, etc) on overhead announcements, and one day they called down the Cobras for a school photo for the yearbook, to try and figure out who they were. They caught almost half the students who were defacing school property because they showed up for the “group photo”.

So every school has their weird kid. Were going to call my schools weird kid T. Everyone knew him, and knew something was off. He was an angry kid. But otherwise functional, was in band, normal classes. But was really weird. Some examples: got mad and broke a window in a practice room, was found butt naked in the room the color guard girls kept their things, threatened people etc. But we never actually hurt anyone. He was actually very kind to me. Well our senior year he said he had a big surprise for the last day of classes. Half the school didnt show up honestly expecting him to bring a gun or something. Low and behold T shows up to school in a dress, and a wig, and makeup with a new name. Totally normal sweet girl now, waitress, nice, youd never know.

Tl/dr: we thought the weird kid was gonna kill us but instead he came to school as a girl.

We were all called to an emergency assembly and told a student had died... Her friends were distraught and even the people who didn't know her went quiet. I think I remember a group of students putting together a type of memorial card. The whole morning was morbid... Until the 'dead girl' arrived at school and didn't know what was going on.

We never had a school camp, because the last time they held one, three students got pregnant

At my high school, seniors had to do a senior project. Can be anything really. Just plan it out and follow through.

A very popular and well liked senior made an end of day announcement that tomorrow morning he'd be in the student parking lot working on it and needs as many other folks there as possible.

The next day he drives into the student parking lot, setup a tripod and a camera. A large crowd gathered round, just about 30 mins before the first bell. He hit record, thanks everyone for showing. Then he reached into his car pulled out a handgun and killed himself before anyone could react.

No one knows why. He was a great guy with a bright future. Never know what struggles others are going through. I think about it frequently and take that into consideration to try and be nice to others with random acts of kindness.

This happened in grade school but a moose escaped a local zoo and somehow made its way to our school yard during our recess. We were all rushed inside and the school was put into a lockdown situation until the moose left the yard.

One guess what country I’m from.

Edit: Anyone who guessed Canada is right, I feel like there’s nothing more canadian than almost getting mowed down by a moose

* During one of the semi-formal dances of the year (not Prom) some school official thought it would be a GREAT idea to screen the underwear choices of the girls attending, for "morality purposes" because thongs were of the Devil. Their GREAT plan for implementation was to literally pull girls aside from the ticket line and just lift up their skirts. Right there. No curtain, no other room, nothing, just right in front of the gym doors. While EVERYBODY ELSE was in line, able to SEE. This was a NYTimes quote: "said one parent called her to report that a teacher had pulled a girl's top to see if she was wearing a bra."

And then there was the Lore: Why Can't Seniors Leave Campus for Lunch.

Seniors with cars used to be able to leave to get fast food. This was discontinued because some JACKASSES went to the local daycare center up the hill (like a 15 minute walk away) and started flashing their genitals at the children.

There had been rumors since my freshman year about the assistant principal taking a certain "special interest" in a few of the girls. Almost everyone wrote it off as high school kids starting stupid rumors.

Until my senior year.

When four police officers came in after school and walked him out in cuffs in front of a few hundred students watching a basketball game against another school.

He was f*****g one of the girls in my grade and selling her oxycodone in the hallways. Got 10 years.

oh man..

One time this kid i was friends with brought this hot sauce called Da Bomb(1.5million scoville units, hotter than hell) to high school and let a bunch of kids try it during lunch, i mean atleast 30 kids. Some kids really started freaking out because that s**t is ridiculously hot, like you’re supposed to add one or two drops to a big batch of chili to make it spicy. Some were trying to show off and took a swig of it and ended up vomiting everywhere from the heat/panic. Multiple kids had to go to the nurse and be sent home because they way overdid it, although i think most just really had no idea what a scoville unit was or that they made hot sauce that was that ridiculously hot. It was chaos. I tried it as well, a dime size amount, and I couldn’t concentrate on anything but chugging milk. And i’m really good with spicy foods! Finally the principal came on the intercom and said “Whoever brought the hot sauce please..just stop..” My friend got into some pretty big trouble for that one.

A football player with the last name ‘Parham’ got punished for some s**t and was no longer allowed to walk the stage for graduation.
One day, a friend of his pulled up in a truck outside of the cafeteria during lunch, slammed on the brakes, jumped out, and proceeded to sprint inside.
He streaked through half the cafeteria with a spider-man mask on and “Free Parham” painted on his bare a*s. Staff tried to grab him and stop him, and despite him literally slipping on a piece of food and falling, he escaped valiantly - as any hero should.
Eventually, Parham was once again allowed to walk the stage, although I’m sure the stunt wasn’t the only reason for it.

A girl in her final year got pregnant and was hiding it from her parents. She was 18 at the time though. She went to the counsellor (qualified clinical psychologist) who was helping her through it. The counsellor walked her through all of her options and did what she was supposed to do.
The girl (I think possibly in denial) carried the baby to quite far along but then wanted out. She was also starving herself.
Long story short (I also can't remember all the exact details) she apparently went to a dodgey clinic where she convinced them she was much earlier in the pregnancy (guessing they did no tests) and they gave her abortions pills or something like that (like I said - can't remeber the exact deets so don't crucify me).
She started profusely bleeding in class the next day and was rushed to hospital. The baby survived for about 4 hours and then passed away. Obviously by his point her parents were there. Upon questioning she named out school counsellor and said that she had forced her to have an abortion. This whole case went to court. Our poor school counsellor could not say anything or defend herself publically until the case was done. We had reporters outside our school gates for ages.
It all came out at the end that the girl had lied and the counsellor was completely innocent and had just done what she was supposed to do and had offered the girl all the information and advice for her to make an informed decision. I was amazed at how professional the counsellor was and how she did everything by the book when it came to speaking about her client.
Anyway, that was crazy.

I was a teacher and a very good kid just got pushed to his limit by a bully teacher (had been bullied by this guy for a couple of years; never did find out what was up with that).

So bully teacher says something to the kid, he runs out to his car, grabs a crowbar and comes in smashing all the glass he encountered (it was safety glass but lots of shards anyway). Tries to go after the teacher to kill him. He got trapped in the library (the classroom was located in a small classroom off the library) and I was right next door, keeping kids in their seats and unable to go to the bathroom for about 90 minutes. Cops began arriving from all directions since we were right off two state highways. State cops, canine cops, etc. Kid destroyed all the beautiful 1940's oak shelving, teacher's desk, anything that would break. His mom shows up and disarms him. Kid gets slammed on a stretcher and hauled off to the nearby AFB, where his dad worked.

Not sure exactly what all happened there but he got a lifetime ban from being at the high school and a serious restraining order from ever contacting or being near the bully teacher.

I liked the kid, never had once tiny bit of trouble with him. Saw him a couple of months later and asked him to please tell me if he was ever mad at me. He laughed.

Kid was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder. Went on to be a good adult. He'd just kind of lost it that day.

I did not know that the kid was being bullied until the s**t hit the fan; then kids told me the whole story. There was nothing I could do except offer words of support to his girlfriend and then be nice to him when I saw him again. As a victim of lifetime bullying (not school but family), I know the damage it can cause.

As far as bullies go, I called them out in my classroom whenever I knew what was going on. But if you know anything about bullies, they tend to do these things at times/places that teachers don't see. We can't stop what we don't witness. Sadly, many/most victims do not report until the situation has reached critical mass.

A teacher in my high school walked into the unisex bathroom because someone reported that two kids went into it together. He walked in, found nobody in there, and as he walked out the two kids fell from the ceiling completely naked and onto the floor in front of him.

The schools library had huge impressive displays of taxidermy. A huge collection that started well over a hundred years ago. Truly a sight to behold.

Anyways someone smashed a window and f****d a badger.