There were a few for my high school, but one I was there for was when I was sitting in the bus when suddenly everything went quiet (highly unusual). I looked behind myself and everyone was covering their ears, then the smell of gunpowder hit my nose. Some dumb fuck lit a firecracker and tossed it into the middle lane (wtvr it was called) when the bus was driving between the lake and the train tracks. Thank GOD it was a dud. Anyways, I brought this up to the principle and teachers the next day and seemingly no one gave a shit ?? Goes to show how garbage my school was lol
For my college, I can’t give specifics but it’d have to be the murders. Very tragic and sad incident
I didn’t want to dox my college because it became a pretty huge deal (however you’ll probably know with this comment admittedly) but there was a mass murder killing a couple students one night, I think the guy got caught but it was a devastating time. Not to mention subsequently getting the emails from my college stating a murder happened and then following it up with several murders actually was scary
Oh, there were plenty. There was the student with the Confederate flag in his dorm window. There was the underage student doing a nude bondage show in a residence hallway for cigarette money. There was the underground newspaper stolen by the editors of the official newspaper. There was apparently a naked bus driver at one point but I don’t know the details. There was a staff member caught in the shower with a student — caught by the staff member’s brand-new wife, who was also on staff. There was the student pirating movies, making DVDs, and selling them to staff.
Christ
Man seeing that first point listed here is kinda surreal to see. Because my highschool was in a bumbfuck nowhere yeeyee ass town there were confederate flags everywhere and fake wannabe southerners in cowboy hats (this is a very north state lol) literally the first thing you’d see upon entering the town was one of those flags flying on the right side (tho it slowly got destroyed by the weather until it was taken down thankfully)
Oh, those are from different institutions. That one wasn’t even in the South; it was in New England. Dude was trolling; years before “right-wing troll” was a paid online job.
Omg I cannot with non-american conservatives 💀can’t even use the “southern pride” excuse at that point lmao (edit: bozo forgot geography)
All the computers at my highschool had a shared drive anyone could access. Someone put an executable for a Tron-style multiplayer game in that drive and it caused a craze where, at any given time, half the school computers were being used by students to play this Tron game with each other over LAN instead of studying.
I may have been the one who put the executable on the drive to play with my friends. I may have also been banned from using the school computers for the rest of the semester because of it.
Lol. Brings back memories of all-nighters playing Doom in the computer labs. IT used to delete it from all of the desktops and we would just ftp it back again.
Lordy this one is so specific I’ll probably doxx myself with it, lol.
Small town college in a pretty red (enough) state, one store in town to buy any groceries unless you have a car and can get to the bigger stores in the next town. Black kid gets tackled fleeing the shop by the son of the shop owners, initial wave of gossip blames racial profiling by the white owners and the students start boycotting the business. College itself gets involved and stops purchasing food for the dining halls (baked goods, etc.) from the shop, severely cutting into their business margins. Turns out the kid was actually shoplifting, and if I remember correctly was shoplifting alcohol while underage, and it becomes a huge fiasco (as if it wasn’t already) with the police getting involved and I think the business sued the college. Not positive how it ended as it mostly happened right when I was graduating.
There were news articles about it online as it got to be a pretty huge deal with the lawsuits and everything. Partly posting this to see how many other people from there at that time are on here (I suspect more than a few).
Edited to add - turns out there’s an entire wikipedia article about this, so have fun anyone who searches for this lmao.
