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.
A girl my year was killed by a serial killer. It was pretty surreal.
not related in any way to your comment, but your username…
When you’re doing an inspection down there, do you have to really fight the urge to say “hello there!“ ?
A girl my year was almost killed by a crazy homeless guy while walking to school. She got stabbed 17 times, if I remember correctly, including once in the neck.
She survived. Didn’t take that trail to school anymore after she’d healed up.
Another girl died in a go-kart accident. Not like, hook a lawn mower motor to a frame go-kart, but a racing kart where she raced in a league. She went straight into a wall, and her heart dislodged inside her chest. Nothing obviously wrong with her, just instantly dead.
The Tenni-bator. A guy would approach the tennis courts from the woods in a trench coat and beat his meat to tennis practice. Male or female, if I remember correctly. When they’d try to catch him, he’d disappear into the woods. I don’t think he was ever caught.
In high school some kids stole a school bus, trashed the inside and peed all over the back. Left their beer bottles and cigarette butts all over. Tore up a bunch of the seats, burned some of them. Crashed it into a ditch at some point but managed to keep going. They did at least park it back where they got it from tho. Whole big shit show the next morning. They had the entire high school in the gym, threatening to suspend and charge whoever did it. The thing was everybody already figured out who it was when most of the boys and girls basketball team didn’t show up that morning. In the end they only got community service with a fine and were supposed to be suspended but that got canceled because they made it to state and apparently state basketball is more important than their punishment. One kid just sold a cow and covered the fine for all of them. Three of them had just gotten in trouble the year before for stealing a car and rolling it, two of them almost died but apparently they didn’t learn anything that time either.
