30 Stories Of How Something Chucklesome Happened In School And It Spiraled Out Of Control, As Shared Online
Ohhh, school years are the ones everybody remembers. Some of us really enjoyed this time, while for some of us it was the worst years ever; however, if somebody pranked or teased the teacher, everybody in the class would laugh. Even if you are also like me and you didn’t enjoy your school years at all, it may still be fun to remember some of the moments. Although it was disappointing to find out that films about high school are not really relatable, a few moments could make you feel like you were in a film. At least funny moments that included pranking teachers.
Now, speaking of hilarious moments, folks in this online thread share funny things that happened in their schools and caused complete chaos in the whole faculty. Here you can find 42 of the most insane ones that may make you wonder if all schools have similar rules.
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Hired a mariachi band to follow around our principal for our senior class prank. It was hysterical.
That whole day felt like he was in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Every entrance dramatic.
Senior prank when I was about 14, 15...the graduating class that year decided to get pounds and pounds and pounds of confetti...literally pounds...I have no idea how they got so much...and a ladder, or something...and they climbed up and poured it all down the pipes of the school organ in the assembly hall. Filled everything right up. Every single pipe.
Come assembly-time two hours later, and it's confetti snow ALL OVER THE PLACE when the organ starts playing. Apparently the boys got permission from the school music teacher/organist to pull off the prank because they were throwing out that old organ, anyway - but he didn't tell anybody else, so the other teachers were losing their s**t while confetti is flying all over the place.
This school must have had a lot of spare cash if they were throwing out a pipe organ. The pipes alone are worth a fortune. I’ve only ever seen them in churches in the UK. They also have large holes at the front close to the bottom in order for the right sound to come from them. How would you stuff them with confetti when they have big holes in them?
Ha! I was thinking EXACTLY this (my mother was an organist). This one is in fact completely false...unless you are a cartoon rabbit, perhaps...
Load More Replies...Hogwarts. Same place this story was invented.
Load More Replies...Exactly, I was worried at first the organ could get damaged but this way - properly hilarious.
Load More Replies...I wasn't going to upvote but then they said they got permission, so I was appeased :)
One time, in 1st grade, when the teacher left the room for 5 minutes, i scotch taped all of my classmates together. They loved it. My teacher came back, had a breakdown, and called my mother in tears. “He did what?” My mom asked. “He ***taped*** his classmates ***together***!”
“Is that all…?” My mom replied. Bless her.
Okay, this made me think of my mom. My 2nd grade teacher was....severely religious. Mom and I always joked her household probably lives by lantern and latrine. Anyway. One day I fell off the monkey bars, as young kids are wont to do, and happened to land just PERFECTLY on my balls on a bar lower (as kids are also wont to do). I hobbled over to her and told her I needed to go in because I hurt my penis. So Mom's getting a call an hour later, and she just sighs and prepares herself. I wasn't ever a bad kid. It was more my inquisitiveness could lead to some very awkward questions or observations. So the teacher calls mom at work and immediately charges in with, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR SON SAID AT RECESS TODAY???" Mom just sighed and prepared for the worst. "He said he hurt his PENIS! We do not talk like that in my family!" My mom paused a beat then finally came back, "Lady, would you have preferred he said he hurt his *d**k*?" and hung up on her.
I don't get why people get so offended when kids say penis or vagina. They are the correct anatomy terms. WAY better then some of the slang there is for those.
Load More Replies...Well, if the other kids loved it (through I have no idea why they would) what's the big deal?
I’d have been thrilled to get taped to all my classmates in first grade. In first grade, I’d have been 6-7 years old. This kind of thing would have been the height of hilarity to 6-year-old me XD
Load More Replies...So many times my poor father would be sitting in the principal's office, going red in the face from struggling not to laugh while the principal told him what I've done this time.
I saw a segment on funniest videos where a man was telling his sons he was going to tape them. They misunderstood, and thought he was going to put tape on them.
I just asked my husband if that sounded like something his (older) brother would have done, he said "no, but probably something similar". In elementary and middle school, the principal had his mother's number memorized and mom could recognize the principal's voice on the phone. Nothing really horrible, no violence or misogyny, just a kid with a bit too much energy and a lack of focus.
haha that would have been my response to. When I was a sophomore, the senior football players duct taped a few freshman football players to the flag pole.
They banned shorts because they were not professional enough. So all the boys wore skirts as a protest.
It happens every year in the UK in the summer, the boys borrow skirts from friends or siblings because it's too hot inside school buildings to be in trousers.
My friends’ brothers have had this happen in their schools. Borrowed their sisters’ skirts and off they went. If this happens to my brother I will give him my school skirt happily
Load More Replies...Shh let the schools pretend like they always do
Load More Replies...As they should. It gets hot as hell in the summer and a lot of schools don't have air conditioning! F**k that!
In Texas everyone is wearing shorts by March. If they didn't, they'd melt,get heat stroke and pass out!
I saw a (presumably) Texan in the wild today. Literally. I was hiking up the mountain that embraces my town (in Croatia) and he asked me for directions. He wore a T-shirt that said "Texas" and spoke like characters on Young Sheldon.🤠 I'm fairly fit myself, and walking uphill makes no significant difference to me, but this guy passed me like Usain Bolt and went on his merry way to the top 🤣it was about 28°C, I guess it's his optimal working temperature, unlike mine😁
Load More Replies...F**k thatttt. I'm wearing shorts whenever it's 100 degrees outside. And I don't like skirts, so deal with it.
That's a crazy policy. I haven't heard of in happening in Australia, maybe because we have higher temps? Our school uniform had shorts for boys and in summer girls had dresses and skirts in winter (as well as pants). When they made the uniform unisex it was shorts for everyone.
First day of senior year we walked down the path to find a row of teachers holding rulers to measure our uniform skirts (2inches above the knee) and the whole senior class of girls got sent home and most had to buy all new uniform skirts our last year of high school because we had them hemmed that short as freshman and couldn't let them back down
We managed to pull off an insane senior prank that took a month to prepare without anyone spoiling it. We switched with others for the whole day. Everyone switched with one other person, didn't have to be reciprocated. We had little cheat sheets on where we sat in each class, and what is going on in the class. We dressed like the other person, went to all their classes, used their name, and would not back down that we were someone else. A lot of us got our parents involved so when the admin tried to call our parents, they went along with the ploy. It got so bad the superintendent got involved, and we ended up having an impromptu half-day and just sent everyone home. More than a few of the staff *threw* (edited for autocorrect) very loud fits. We kept up the whole thing up for the rest of the year that we never switched places with someone else, and everyone was just remembering the day wrong.
Junior & Senior year Our buddy group took to calling each other either by our father's name or father's nickname. Jeff became Hank, Mike became Roy. The looks on teacher's faces when we talked to each other in their classes were priceless
Last year as a senior prank, a bunch of students from *two different high schools* swapped places for a while, until they were found out. The adults, predictably, had a nuclear meltdown due to severe lack of humor plus of course worries about security. (I get it, nobody should be able to just walk into a school that's not theirs.) A bunch of students got in trouble while others didn't and it was a whole "thing" for a hot minute until the publicity cooled people off and brought them to their senses that it was just a harmless prank.
I would have been completely amused as a teacher and threw the kids for a loop by going along with it like I didn't notice any difference
Yeah, back in my day, "gaslighting" was considered a sport. Even made it to the Olympics. The East Germans won with their "women's" swim team.
One of the classrooms at my school was a prefab hut, and over time it developed a hole in the floor at the back of the room (developed, or was helped, unsure).
Every lesson I had in there for a good few months before they fixed it, someone would arrive, greet the teacher, and sit down.
Then after a few minutes they'd arrive again, straight-faced "sorry I'm late sir", and sit down.
Then again a few minutes later they'd arrive again... etc
The fun part was watching the teacher playing the memory game of figuring out who'd arrived too many times.
There was a teacher who had a human-sized hole in their classroom for months and never noticed? This one smells fishy...
I'm sure they noticed getting administrative personnel to do anything about it is a different story.
Load More Replies...The student would come in and greet the teacher, sneak out through the hole in the floor, enter through the door again pretending like they just arrived, sneak out again and enter through the door again and again and again to confuse the teacher.
Load More Replies...Trailers in back as extra classrooms for overcrowding if you still don't understand
For one of our senior pranks, 20-30 of us bought about 5,000 bouncy balls, and threw them off the balcony overlooking the cafeteria during lunch. There were about 100-200 kids eating and they all flipped out. It was pure anarchy.
As we were running away, the campus security guard tackled one of the girls in the hallway. Took her to the office and she ratted on all of us. We all got a $200 fine for trespassing since we did it after graduation and had someone let us in the side door of the school. Cat, if you're reading this, it may be 15 years later but we still haven't forgotten. You owe me $200.
Edit: funny enough I looked up the snitch on Facebook just for s***s and giggles and her job? F*****g security guard. Can't make this s**t up.
20-30 people did this. One got caught. Nobody went back and helped her. No wonder she told them the names of the others involved. They showed her no loyalty but expected her to take the fall for all of them! The other 19-29 are absolute cowards and the OP clearly still hasn’t grown up 15 years later. At around 33 years old they are still naming and trying to shame someone for not taking full responsibility for the actions of 30 people. And stalking them on social media. Classy.
To be honest, I would have fessed up too. Not because I’m a bad person, but because I can’t lie. The guilt would eat me alive.
I hope you cleaned them all up and not left it to the poor maintenance crew. Or the students. Hopefully the $200 went straight to the cleanup crews. This is before we talk about environmental damage from single use plastics.
That's what I was thinking. I also hope none made their way to the road or anything
Load More Replies...We threw super balls (the little ones that are incredibly bouncy) at our homecoming pep rally. Some of my less intelligent classmates threw water balloons.
My son stet is a vice principal and she says she just stares at them until they spill their guts. She almost never gets one’s who refuse to talk.
A class above mine was legendary for a VERY simple senior class prank: someone who lived on a farm brought their resident goat in. They snuck it in through the side door into the parking lot from the weight room and just let ol' Billy loose.
What followed was a couple hours of chaos as this goat ran all over the building, dropping goat poop and yelling at everyone who tried to catch it. You haven't had hilarious until you've heard the principal blurt out from outside the door "Corner him! No the OTHER way, the OTHER way! DAMN IT where's a lasso when you need one?! C'mere you little son of a b*tch!"
Billy the Goat was eventually cornered and caught, and the kid who did it got a decent scolding and a detention and a whole lot of laughter from his classmates and several teachers, who were just happy nothing got vandalized that year.
Heard out of context, it sounds like the principal was trying to catch a very disruptive student.
Almost like a scene from a comedy movie: rich possible investors show up to see if the school is up to their standards for their children....just to hear, "Where's a lasso when you need one? Come here you little sonofabitch!"
Load More Replies...The seniors a few years ahead of me released three small-ish pigs in the school, marked 1, 3, and 4. Absolute bedlam searching for #2 until the kids finally admitted there wasn't one.
why won't anyone let me in their school. I WANNA CAUSE CHAOS. humph
Because you’re a two-faced llama. At least I got into a hula school /s
Load More Replies...Next time, introduce five sheep. Number them 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7. The entire staff will be looking for numbers 3 and 6
And to this day, "goat" now means the greatest, when back in my day it meant the guy who ruined it for everybody.
In middle school, a staff (not a teacher, he watched lunch and was a basketball coach for a high school) got arrested for selling [illegal substance] to the kids. He won an award for "best staff of the year" that year which had an entire yearbook page dedicated to him, but he was arrested after the yearbooks were printed. They had to go into each yearbook and cover that page with purple duct tape (to match the color scheme).
Prior to him being arrested, I was getting bullied horribly. None of the teachers or other staff could get the kids to stop, but once the staff who was arrested said "leave Spencer alone," the kids would immediately stop. I later realized he was threatening to take their [illegal substance] away if they bullied me, and that's why he was the only one who could get them to stop.
I cannot stand bullies and the fact that the only person who could stop them bullying this guy was a drug dealer who worked at the school supervising lunch does not give me any confidence that our kids are in a safe place.
I was HORRIBLY bullied. Anyone who says you just get over that s**t either lies or doesn't have functioning emotions; I'm gay and I contemplated ending my life over having to go back to the bullying day after day after day FAR more often than my sexuality ever did. Hell, it may be why I was able to come out at 15; I was already dealing with the bullying of a gay kid...may as well live honest about it.
Load More Replies...Oh GODDAMN BP. It's not even DRUGS in general, it's about WEED. Fúcking WEED. How stuck up your áss can you be?
Now we know who voted for him. This is why Teacher of the Year awards are often stupid.
This very quiet guy who never really caused any trouble at all saved up the mice that he fed to his boa constrictor and dyed them various festive colors with Easter egg dye. He then came to school in a trench coat in which he’d cut out the pockets and, basically, filled it up with the live, colorful mice. Every once in a while, he’s stop and drop a few out when no one was looking. In the classrooms, the lunch room, the labs etc.
It took him most of the morning but, eventually, we’d all hear screaming every few minutes from all directions.
This was before mass school shootings so; it was hilarious at the time.
yeah that part isnt explained. I'll assume these were extra mice.
Load More Replies...Very sad to compare it to today when screaming in schools means mass shooting.
I like this way better than shootings - plus way more clever. I worked at a fast food restaurant when I was young and all my workers decided they were anti-cop so they'd do horrible things to the cops food. Gross. I believe in karma and you don't mess with people's food, man. So I proposed just adding bacon to everything as a joke. Everyone thought this was hilarious instead and shoved copious amounts of the thin crummy bacon in french fries, every sandwich, literally everything - I got fired for it being my idea, but I was glad people were doing that instead of gross things to the food. Also, I think most of the police officers probably thought it was funny (and a bonus) and never complained.
"This very quiet guy who never really caused any trouble at all " - for a minute I thought you were talking about the poor little mouse, but no, it's yet another case of being cruel to animals...
That's a health hazard. I bed the maintenance and cleaning staff had a great time catching the mess /s.
Our teacher had a smart ( little car) and we managed to get it up to the third floor and put it In front of her classroom.
My Aunt and her friends got busted on the last day of school in the process of carrying a teachers desk outside. The plan was for the teacher to walk in to class and find that their desk was outside of their window instead.
In college, my dorm moved my entire bedroom out to the lounge, including the passed-out, doped-up, drunk roommate. It was my task to act normal when he woke up to see how long it took him to make sense of everything. "Why am I in the lounge?" "Whaddaya mean; you're in bed." "Then why are THEY here?" "They're watching ESPN" "Why is the TV here?" "So they can watch ESPN." "Why are the watching ESPN in our room." "You told them we get better reception." (CampusTV rebroadcast cable; yeah, I've never heard of that before or since.)
Load More Replies...We had an English teacher with an old worn out VW beetle, one kids father owned a lumber yard so he and a bunch of guys "borrowed" one of the flat bed trucks and moved her bug for her... shexd wake up and her car was gone, get a ride to school and the car was there in the teachers lot, sure enough after school it was gone again and back at her house... they did it several times and word got out they were only trying to be helpful because they thought the poor old car needed help getting around
There have been a couple of univeristy pranks where students have managed to put a car on the roof. They actually disassembled and reassembled the car. They were not easy to get down again!
Not surprisingly, that was MIT. Other schools may have done it since, but MIT thought of it first - in 1926 to be exact. The school is notorious for their pranks (which they call hacks). Several other vehicles have appeared on buildings including a police car, a replica of the first airplane (100th anniversary of first flight), a firetruck, and a replica of the Apollo Lunar Module.
Load More Replies...just drive it out of the window you'll only break like 200 bones and your car may explode , but you'll get your car out ( in 5 pieces).
2000. Teachers trying to stop kids smoking in the bathroom so they locked the bathroom doors. Kid took a s**t on the carpet in front of the bathroom door, like right in the main hallway. Chaos ensued. Today, that kid is a pastor. Lol
They still do it in my school to stop kids from vaping but it stops everyone from going to the bathroom, and they usually only lock the boys bathroom.
Senior prank: The country guys brought greased pigs into the school. Labeled them with spraypaint #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7. Imagine the frantic radio calls and locations of where pigs were located one by one. Took them a whole day of diving around wrangling pigs until they figured out pig #4 didn't exist.
This one's got a long beard. I already encountered it with monkeys, parrots, cats, snakes, you name it.
Believe the original was 2 pigs, labeled one and three, Princeton senior prank decades ago. But it's been a legend for quite a while, so who knows. Perhaps Snopes?
Load More Replies...Seniors a few grades ahead of me did this (but will only 3 pigs), best prank of all time.
But #4 DID exist. He was where no one would ever think to look, the permanent record room.
How is that animal abuse? It's not like the animals are injured. Have a little fun sometimes for once
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Somebody unscrewed the classroom door and left it supported by the hinge tension, angry teacher came back from his march to the head of department and slammed the door.
Except it didn't slam, rather come off the wall completely and absolute madness ensued.
Ahh, good times.
Ah, yes I too approve this message, I am the problem
Load More Replies...One year several the seniors pulled the hinge pins out of almost all the doors in school boxed them up and mailed them back to school. Was hilarious seeing teachers panicking as the doors fell off when they opened them.... Except for the double doors on the 3rd floor library which were huge like 10 foot talk heavy wooden framed with multiple large frosted glass panels. The librarian was a short lady and they both started to fall on either side of her and would have pinned her between them and the glass would have shatter if luck hadn't had them hit together at the top and the bottoms of the doors wedged in the door jamb like a big wooden and glass tent...
At my high school, we came in one Monday morning and there were no doorknobs on any of the classroom doors. Someone(s) had broken in over the weekend, removed them, and put them in the boys' swimming pool. It was hysterical watching teachers and students alike trying to open and close doors using a finger in the hole.
Load More Replies...Huh. The doors I've seen in US public schools could kill someone.
In the UK someone could get hurt, but probably not badly unless the edge hit their head or smth. I assume they’re pretty hefty in the US bc reasons
Load More Replies...I need more details as to the exact trajectory, sounds and damage the door made.
this girl in year 9 wrote a very explicit fanfic about two male maths teachers and EVERYBODY had either read it or knew about it. the two teachers couldn’t look at each other for weeks after that.
Yeah, I just got really uncomfortable writing RP fic. I mean, not that the subjects ever read it (I don't think so, anyway... Paul McCartney doesn't seem like he's scouring the web for Beatles fic, y'know?) but it just eventually felt weird.
Your comment inspired me to, if I ever get famous for some reason, search for fanfic about myself, lol. The imaginary version of me probably would probably have a much more exciting love life than real life me, lol.
Load More Replies...my friend wrote a fanfic about to male band section leaders. it was great
I had a classmate who wrote a very explicit story about our Literature teacher and *a student* (which was supposed to be her). The teacher got into trouble, even though the story was made up by the girl (however, she did make out with a Biology teacher, and *this* guy never got in trouble for it)
Someone put a cow on the roof. The cow couldn’t come back down because, apparently, cows can’t go down stairs. So they had to bring it down… with a crane.
That is not very nice. Poor cow. Leave animals out of it please.
i swear all these animals are getting a chance to cause chaos in the school but i'm never lucky enough
In my school, they would put a fiberglass cow that was on top of a local drive-thru dairy on the roof. No crane necessary.
I think they can climb stairs, but not go down them
Load More Replies...Shoot, I'm too old to have even heard about senior class pranks. Really missed something by graduating in 1963.
A classmate brought a VHS tape of Bambi to class. It was movie day, elementary school.
Turns out they swapped the stickers for Bambi and The Scorpion King. Teachers put the movie on and left...they might have never known if one of the kids hadn't run off to tell them halfway through the movie.
I still think you're a party pooper, Marie, we were basically almost done 🙄 teachers never got anyone in trouble tho lmao
Well at least it wasn't p*rn. Although I'm wondering why they'd show Bambi in school?
Movie day in elementary school. Pretty much any Disney movie works
Load More Replies...One time on a class trip, our teacher had us watch Speed. On the bus.
Maybe she was just waiting to see if the movie was any good. :-)
Load More Replies...It seems odd to me that the teacher would just leave the kids alone for the length of a movie. When I'm teaching I can bare leave to go to the toilet because the kids have to be supervised all the time!
We watched dirty dancing the last day of 7th grade. Once I moved to Maryland I learned random movies to be a core part of the curriculum whereas would have been for a very special event or directly related to course material in CT
When my husband was about 11, he brought a 5-gallon bucket of garter snakes to school for show and tell. At lunch, all the snakes escaped, and they were catching snakes for weeks
I'm with you. 5 gallons of snakes seems excessive. Where did he get all of them?
Load More Replies...I brought a pet garter snake to school for my science class pet once. It was only supposed to be me, the teacher, and one other person that cleaned the tank. Well there was a sub one day and this girl, who we repeatedly told not to clean the tank because she wasn't the brightest crayon, cleaned it. She dumped it outside without taking the snake out so the snake got away. I was so pissed.
We call snakes nope ropes in our house. My husband nopes right the hell away from any snake!
In grade four I used to walk beside a river through a ravine that was behind our house all the way to school. One fine sunny winter morning after a night of freezing rain I encountered a bunch of Starlings with wet plumage. Feeling sorry for them I gathered as many as I was able to catch, unzipped my coat and putting the poor birds in to cradle them against my body to protect them from the cold. When I reached the school, my first thought was where could I put them so that they could warm up? The foyer had large glass doors on either side that opened automatically with wall heaters on each end blasting out hot air. I unzipped my coat with glee setting my friends free. What I didn’t count on though was that when I stepped into the school, was that my friends would follow! Not sure how they managed to catch them all to usher them back outside…. The next incident was in late May. I found a humungous tent caterpillar nest! The way our school…. Excited I brought it in the morning
Was designed was that it was a huge square with a hallway that ran in the back of all of the classrooms and the classrooms were towards the inner part. We hung our coats up at the back of our classroom, ( think 1960’s brutalist era open architecture). I left the tent there, thinking at the end of the day I would retrieve it to bring home to our house, ( at the cottage I was encouraged and taught to handle insects, reptiles, fish etc with respect and reverence). Needless to say by the afternoon there were caterpillars EVERYWHERE! Not sure what came of it but do remember I was sent to THE OFFICE….
Load More Replies...*counts each gallons of snakes just to tell this story on bored panda when they get older
I remember when we all brought our dogs to school for show-and-tell. Chaos and cuteness overload!
What about fluffy blue aliens? I promise I don’t bite! (But I also lie)
Load More Replies...The college I graduated from used to bring in puppies/dogs from the local pound for finals week. It was great stress relief and some of them got new homes as a result!
A boy in my class brought some locusts in to show and tell. They escaped and got into the air vents. This was just before summer break.
School came back to a full on plague.
I have a hard time believing this one. What would they eat? Inside a school is hardly a place where they'd be able to breed/multiply.
Oh, I believe it. My grandma had a cat who somehow survived in the schoolhouse for 2 weeks without food. (It’s an old schoolhouse out in the country. Maybe survived on mice and birds?) So I believe bugs can do it too
Load More Replies...Omg I’ve heard that one school was swarmed by bees, and then flying ants a few months later 🤣🤣🤣
We stuck a car in the school corridor. In my last week of school, i realised one of the other kid’s Fiat Unos was so slim that it would fit through the rear double doors, as well as through multiple tight gaps and gates and there was a clear path down to one of the main thoroughfares (i think i measured each gap about 4times) Me and a mate got the keys off the owner, who wanted plausible deniability, pushed it down and then locked it, put full lock and then triggered the steering lock (which was a touch of genius on my mate’s part) and walked off. Unfortunately, about 30mins later someone else then came and turned the radio on full blast where we had left a window open to be able to push it without sitting in it - so we had to leg it back and ‘pretend’ to find the keys in a corner and say ‘we’ll get it out’. Which was easier said than done now upwards of 50 kids and 10 teachers (many of which i’m proud to say looked a bit impressed) now surrounded it But because we got it out, and then vanished for lunch, we got away with it completely Sadly both my mate and the car’s owner died a few years later through accident and illness, but i’m glad to say i know it was us, and it was a good one
One class prank suspended a VW beetle front the rafters over the high school indoor swimming pool
Sounds like the time (early 80's) at University of Washington, some friends and I managed to get a car on the pedestrian bridge going into Red Square without being arrested. We drove around for a little bit then left. Somewhere there are some pictures one of us took of that feat. Also, only one of us was attending the university at the time. At least we didn't let our blind friend drive, that time!
I was in elementary school. All the 4th graders were lined up on stage to rehearse our act for the annual musical performance, which was a show tune called "white gloves" or something. They gave us all white cotton gloves to wear, wave, and clap with. At the end of rehearsal, the music teacher stood in front of us with a box and said "OK, throw your gloves into the box". We complied. Enthusiastically. Six dozen white gloves were flung in her general direction. The situation devolved into chaos in mere seconds, as we started picking up gloves and throwing them at each other like snowballs. The teacher was standing there with the ultimate look of "I should not have said that" on her face. It took two other teachers five minutes to restore order, and no one got in trouble as our music teacher did in fact admit that she should not have given that instruction.
During a talent show at school, a magician's escaped rabbit caused chaos as faculty members scrambled to catch it, leading to an entertaining and memorable situation.
I went to school in Brooklyn in the early 2000s, extremely overcrowded high school. They started having armed nypd police in the building not one or two im talking like closer to 8 with a mobile precinct infront of the school. They were kicking kids out everyday and they wanted to take our fitteds and phones, not just for the day but permanently.
This led to the student body president calling for a protest and faculty agreeing to announce it over the PA system and say everyone who wants to attend can…lol big mistake. School capacity was about 2000 kids I think? There was about 5000 kids enrolled in that school, 90% of the kids decided to go to the auditorium which obviously couldn’t fit everyone, for the protest. It was so packed when the crowd jumped and chanted “hell no we won’t go” I think? If you was in the crowd your body moved with the crowd.
Kids started jumping on stage,destroying s**t,pushing the faculty off the stage and they ran to hide, they started to throw all the debris around, a mic stand I think hit the lady who was from board of ed and s**t went crazy after that…everyone started to push their way out the building and into the very busy New York streets where atleast 1000 students started to run on the parked cars causing damage to many. The news channels were there, the reporters and camera crew had to run cause they started to grab the cameras and push them around.
That school as it was, no longer exists, I was the last graduating class. They turned into like a bunch of smaller schools I think today.
Not funny at all. But caused major chaos not only in the school but the whole neighborhood.
Me and my little group had our hookie party and got drunk the rest of the days.
Kids these days get a lot of criticism, but it’ll never come from me. We were f*****g stupid back then compared to these kids today.
I will say that the cops had absolutely no right to take your phones!
In the teens, there was a truck that parked outside Dewitt Clinton HS in the Bronx every school day. Kids paid the truck operator to store their phones while they were in class. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a truck like this near every high school in the city, and I don't know if they ever changed the policy to let kids keep their phones with them
Load More Replies..."they wanted to take our fitteds and phones" -- Is this an autocorrect fail? What are "fitteds"?
In my HS, there was a solid week where somebody set a trash can on fire daily. Nobody knew if it was one person or a group of people, but I think after day five everyone got pretty tired of having to stand out in the football field while the fire department inspected the area.
It stopped after that week with no explanation and no word from the culprit.
Second best was definitely the senior prank performed by the class two years ahead of mine. They bought crickets from our local PetSmart and set them free on our school’s main staircase. It took forever to get rid of them and I can remember sitting in class and hearing faint chirping coming from seemingly every direction.
they said on a full moon's night you can still hear the chirpings of the crickets. ( but not llamas for some reason llama + school = school drowing in spit)
i think thats cos llamas dont chirp but you could be lsl (llama second language)
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We had a school that kept getting bomb threats called in, so they'd evacuate the kids, search and clear the school, after the 3rd one, they started doing the lessons and tests outside instead of just waiting for an all clear and that was the end of the false calls
Surprised it didn't turn into "there is possible multiple explosive devices both inside and outside the building.' I can't believe so stupid to do this though. Get out of school for a day go to prison for 3 years
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In chemistry - the teacher had just gotten a new batch of sodium and dropped a piece that was definitely too big into a large clear container filled with water but hey… I was a sophomore so what did I know, right? Welp… a second later the container of water burst and there was a hole in the ceiling. So bravo, my friend
Well, it was the teacher doing it so they didn't need to. My chemistry teacher, who was also the headmistress, was doing some demonstration with a larges glass apparatus but they forgot to open a valve and pressure caused it to explode apart. One half hit each side wall. Several other teachers came running to check everyone was OK. Luckilly it had gone left and right and so everyone including the teacher was fine once the shock wore off. But it was very loud and very messy. Glass everywhere.
Load More Replies...During one chemistry lab, our teacher had laid out all the supplies for whatever we were doing and said "Whatever you do, DO NOT mix beaker A with beaker C." My friend and I looked at each other. Each took a beaker and dumped a few drops of each into one of the other containers. Said container melted, as did some of the table under it.
I spoke to a man who admitted that when he was a student they stole sodium and as a prank threw it in the sewer on the street. All windows on that street shattered and the sewer bars was found a long ways from there. All Darwin candidates survived.
I was really bored during a chem lab and started playing with the (mercury) thermometer. I'd move it between one hot liquid and one cold one, just watching the mercury go up and down. Another kid saw what I was doing and copied me, but his thermometer shattered. A small little puddle of mercury was left on the lab table. Teacher was annoyed, but he took the opportunity to show us how it behaved before safely disposing of it. That was cool. Much more interesting than the basic lab! Sorry not sorry, Matt!
We all watched the safety video in chem where the person is trying to force the beaker into something and it breaks and stabs right into their hand, right? My chemistry teacher actually did that during class.
Bro I’m only heading into sophomore year next fall but I know mixing sodium and water is a bad idea 😭
Sodium in water is just supposed to create fizzing and a small fire. Not an explosion.
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I did not know the amount of chaos this would cause. I did the whole bubble bath in the pool trick. Since our schools pool was huge I used some cheap. cheap, 99cent store bubble bath that probably should have been illegal cause the amount of bubbles 1/4 cup caused could fill a bathroom if you weren't careful. I used an entire large gym bag full. For a weekend that s**t got churned up every time the pumps kicked in. Eventually the safety system kicked in and started topping off the pool since so much water was being removed by the bubbles. The school smelled like cheap bubble bath for weeks, and this was an outdoor pool in a west coast city, so all very open not a indoor high school. Pool was closed for months as they had to keep purging the system with anti foam agents. Wash and rinse. Whole schools PE schedule had to be rewritten to adjust for having the pool closed. I couldn't take credit was supposed to be a prank turned into this massive investigation.
Pools are really expensive and complicated to keep up, wonder how much he ended up costing his school
When I was in high school, our cross town rival school decided they were going to throw paint in our outdoor pool. It was really cool, they used their school colors and about ten gallons of paint. They just forgot to open the paint cans. Yup, it was Florida. Now you know where Florida man/woman gets their start.
Two guys I know did it too except with dish soap. The suds overflowed and got carried all over by the wind. They were drunk (and underage) at the time and thought it would be just some fun bubbles. The whole thing ended up in the local news as well and those two didn't dare showing their faces in public for a while.
Load More Replies...Some melted snickers bars would have done just fine,even more so if you pulled one out in front of people and took a bite.
A student got ahold of a LOT of explicit pictures and taped them to all of the school clocks, suspended from the ceiling. None of the teachers were tall enough to pull them down, so they were up there for a bit.
How did they tape them to the ceiling? *Without a ladder in the building
Our P.E. teacher putting us in wrestling moves in the boys locker room. The school was not best pleased when it came to light and Neither were the parents.
If it were a euphemism, the police would 100% be involved. Considering that, in the USA, corporal punishment by schools is legal in 19 states, this may not be a police matter in those 19 states, and only parental unhappiness would ensue.
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Someone had a baby in the bathroom stall… I wish I was making this up
we had a kid have a miscarriage on the bathroom floor at my middle school
We had a creche at our school for the pupils kids. No one would have had a baby in the toilets though, they were filthy, unless it was the start of the day.
In the practical part of physics class, our teacher at the time showed us a few experiments with magnets and electricity. In the end, half the district (edit to clarify: district as in 'a part of the city', not something bigger) had no more electricity because the lines were overloaded.
Our physics teacher had a lovely step up transformer that used an electromagnet and car battery to create a crude alternating current. It could generate a spark that would jump a good couple of centimetres (an inch or so), and used it to punch holes in a sheet of paper (which then caught fire, but I digress). He had us all join hands then made us all part of the circuit. It gave quite a kick, I can tell you! RIP Mr Smith. I loved physics because of you.
Me, who worked in IT for the high school at the time. There’s an “everyone” email address that sends the email to every faculty and staff member.
So many years ago, Howard Zinn, the author of *A People’s History of the United States*, passed away, so the school flag was lowered in half staff in his honor. Then J.D. Salinger passed away too, and someone wrote an @everyone email about how if the flag was lowered for Zinn, why not Salinger as well?
I fired off a reply rant that called people “phonies.” Some teachers got the reference. Others didn’t and were furious (even though it showed that they didn’t actually read *Catcher in the Rye*). For the first time in my life I was called into the principal’s office for a disciplinary hearing with the HR person representing me, and though I was let off without a formal warning or a write-off, I was on a lot of people’s s**t lists after that incident.
Teachers went on strike in the 80's. We joined in just to get out of doing double maths. Chaos ensued.
The students joined the teachers on the strike picket line so they wouldn't have to do a double period of math
Load More Replies...2 Senior pranks at my high school that caused the cancellation and warning letters for future senior classes that pranks were no longer allowed. First one involved the Seniors dumping nails in the Senior parking lot so no underclass students would park there. Had several flat tires, including mine since some of the nails crossed over into the underclassman parking. The principal called an emergency meeting, had the staff call all senior students threatening that they couldn't walk or graduate if they didn't come out to help clean it all up. Second prank, which was much funnier, involved several Seniors breaking into the school during the night and dumping gallons of Crisco oil all over the hallways. This one was funnier because when I got to school that day, people were all standing out side and the doors were locked and students were trying to figure out what was going on. Looked inside just in time to see a Janitor and a coach slipping around on the floor and then both of them falling down! They actually cancelled school that day and the only way they could continue school was to bring in tons of cat litter and put it in the hallways to soak up all the oil. We had to walk on that mess for a week before they finally got it all cleaned up, but even then there was still some residual oil and the floors were still slippery, so they covered the halls with temporary carpets. Both of these pranks were in back to back years and my school the next year sent out letters to all parents and students with a dire warning that any senior pranks attempted or otherwise would result in having to repeat Senior year, criminal charges, potentially loss of scholarships, any threat they could think of was in that letter. My senior class discussed it despite the warnings, but in the end we decided not to do it.
Maybe I am old, but I don't think either one of them are funny. I'm so glad that wasn't something done at my high school.
How is making the custodial staff work overtime funny? These look like the "pranks" of super entitled selfish brats who don't care about the financial cost and safety risks to others. The poster is a huge A-hole who thinks that it is funny that the janitor fell and possibly hurt themselves. This is psychopath-level s**t.
Agreed. I’m not a custodian but a student and damnnnn. If someone did that at my school the administration would have your head.
Load More Replies...Why didn't those nails in the senior parking lot put holes in the tires of the seniors' cars as well?
8th grade science teacher was talking about motion. He had a rope attached to a tennis ball, and was swinging it around his head. He accidentally let go and it hit the kid in the back of the class in the face.
My 7th grade science teacher would start every lecture by walking to the classroom sink and wetting a sponge. He would sit on a counter while he talked, and if he saw anyone not paying attention, he'd throw the sponge at that person. Not really chaotic but seemed to fit here
One of my teachers did that with a board rubber (chalk board eraser, hard, for rubbing out, not made of rubber).
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Someone in my highschool sent letters to everyone they deemed "virgins" parents saying their son or daughter was tested for and found to have an STD by the school nurse and that they needed to come to the school immediately. Used the school letterhead etc so they got charged with mail fraud lol.
Glad they got charged. It sounds funny but they potentially put a lot of kids in danger.
Especially if one of the kid’s parents were extremely strict and were the type to disown their teen if they did it with anyone
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Why in the world would a.parent think the school could test their kids for an STD? They can't.
There was no mail fraud because there was no fraud. Fraud requires a loss of money, property, or something of financial value.
People call liars “frauds”. The fraud here was the kid using official school documents to forge letters
Load More Replies...No. A prankster stole the school letterhead. That prankster was charged with unauthorized use of official documents, or something like that. The school wouldn't be charged (unless the "someone" who sent the letters was a school employee.)
Load More Replies...A kid in grade 5 put sprout seeds in the fountain, it backed up the entire plumbing system over spring break
That’s just s****y, it probably cost the school a fortune.
In mid school, I had a one dude who always loved to show off and do dumb s**t in order to get attention. He was considered a class idiot and everyone tried to tell him numerous times his stunts aren't either fun or interesting, but he was immune to such advice. Anyway, one day on my way to school I met him and he says "look what I got here!" he opens his bag and I see two bottles of beer. Nothing shocking, only we were 15 that time. He said he took it from his father. I jokingly said that since he has two, he can share. And he just gave me one without any hesitation. So my plan was to drink it after school, but he had to show off and started drinking it during class. Even spilled a bit. After class he went to the toilet to finish it... And left the bottle there. They tracked it to him and we had class meetings about dangers of alcohol and he had alcohol rehab at the age of 15.
When my husband was about 13 or 15 him and his friends broke into their church and drank all of the wine. There were multiple times they broke into the country club (golf course) and emptied their beer stock. He also would get high before school (sometimes during). He would also drink with his mom on a couple different occasions. He was in rehab 3 times by the time he was 16. When he was 22 or 23 he had a mental breakdown when the doctor told him if he didn't quit, he would be dead inside of a couple of days. His organs started shutting down and his skin was yellow, that's why he went in to begin with.
As a 15 year old with autism: WTF this isn't funny at all this is awful and sad.
There was a large pet supplies store not too far from the school and a couple of lads went there one lunch break and came back with a few boxes of live locusts. As soon as the post-lunch period started they ran down a corridor in the science department and threw the boxes into the classrooms they passed like plague-grenades. Effectively shut down the science department for the rest of the day and the day after while they cleared the rooms of locusts.
Someone kept lighting the 3rd floor bathroom on fire.. happened several times. They eventually just closed the bathroom.
Many of these are just criminal and dangeous. Why a prank that could kill people and destroy the school? One of the biggest libraries in Sweden burned down a couple of years ago bc some idiot lit a trash can on fire.
So many of these arenot even hilarious yet bp censurs us an lot
In my HS, we had a substitute teacher that her 2nd job was an Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader. She was very pretty and every boy in the school wanted her a sub for their class. Went as far as one boy actually put a laxative in the Spanish teacher coffee to make her sick and miss a day. That sub did not come in that day and the kid was upset.
Anyway, one of the gym teachers started flirting with the Eagles cheerleader sub and start talking more. They eventually started dating. Many of the teachers and staff was gossiping about the relationship and several of the male teachers were high fiving the gym teacher.
My schoolteachers used to discuss pranks with the aim of pushing students away from cruel and destructive towards actually funny. Hence water gun office chair jousting, filling offices with balloons and wrapping a teacher's car in brown paper with an A4 image of a stamp.
In middle school we had a substitute teacher named Ms. C*x. (Like the actress Courtney C*x from F.R.I.E.N.D.S) Well as mean as middle school girls can be, a couple of my classmates were HORRIBLE to her. Now, she was former military so she was stern but if you listened and were polite to her, things were good and she'd joke around a bit. This one day a girl was a complete snob and made the sub cry because the girl was so relentless. That sub never came back.
Had a cookery teacher called Mrs C*x,she was not nice.
Load More Replies...There was almost a huge race war at my middle school between Hmong and white. A kid dropped a f*****g metal pipe out of his sleeve in math class and told the teacher it was a thermos when she asked about the noise. Thankfully the whole thing was shut down by a ton of police just before lunch.
Seriously bp you censor stupid stuff the entire time but this you don't
The Hmong are a group of people native to southeast China. I’m guessing that the white kid was going to beat up the Hmong kid with the metal pole.
Load More Replies...We had a hard of hearing teacher for biology. One of the kids got a pen with recording capabilities for Christmas. Brought it into school, recorded “bird noises” (very obviously human voices but, she was hard of hearing…) hid it in the classroom and it played for the whole lesson. She was so sure there was a bird in the classroom that we lost a double lesson while she hunted through the lab. Best bit was she opened the cupboard where the pen was hidden, didn’t realise it was coming from the device, and moved on. Whole class were setting themselves laughing.
The graduating class 4 years ahead of mine (before I entered HS) was massively destructive with their pranks. Several students were banned from walking in graduation, more were fined, and the scars were present for years. Our graduating class had to convince the principal that they were going to do it right. One morning the front lawn was full of plastic forks. Just poking up out of the ground. Another was to have the name of every graduating student engraved on the spoons of the cafeteria (yeah, I took mine). Another prank was to put a sticky note on each locker, with encouragement. It was all very civilized.
Small town, grades 7-12 in one school. Last day of school, 8th grader brings in 7 or 8 large shaker bottles of glitter - each a different color. Friends each take a bottle and pepper all 4 stories with glitter by the end of day. Since the bottles were being passed from person to person, the school never figured out who was responsible. 4 years later, main culprits feel horrible for the janitorial staff since there's still glitter in the carpet. They only regret not buying glitter large enough to be vacuumed.
Unfortunately as children we don't think of who truly will bear the consequences for stupid pranks. And these are the ones that keep me up at 3 am randomly 5 or 6 times a year like a hammer to my chest
Load More Replies...Nothing hilarious happened at my school, but the most chaotic was a (teenage) student killed both his parents, went about his days as usual for two days before he confessed to a friend what he did...
stuff from my school 1. someone had a miscarriage on the bathroom floor (middle school) 2. near the end of 8th grade, a student got pregnant with a 17 year old. she gave birth in ninth grade and the poor baby had so many problems. the now 18 year old dad, who was never there for the baby, made a go fund me and then pocketed the money 3. someone rode a horse through the high school
My AP American History teacher was lecturing us about the Vietnam war, he was an aging hippie, but a really great teacher. So the pep club was selling these little pom pom critters for spirit week and he has one. He proceeded to set it on fire on top of an overturned metal garbage can in the classroom. Graphic representation of the Buddhist monks and their self immolation protests. Sadly he forgot to make sure he knew where the fire extinguisher was. Smoke and chaos ensues, but I never forgot that lesson 😁 Edit: for typos
We had a hard of hearing teacher for biology. One of the kids got a pen with recording capabilities for Christmas. Brought it into school, recorded “bird noises” (very obviously human voices but, she was hard of hearing…) hid it in the classroom and it played for the whole lesson. She was so sure there was a bird in the classroom that we lost a double lesson while she hunted through the lab. Best bit was she opened the cupboard where the pen was hidden, didn’t realise it was coming from the device, and moved on. Whole class were setting themselves laughing.
The graduating class 4 years ahead of mine (before I entered HS) was massively destructive with their pranks. Several students were banned from walking in graduation, more were fined, and the scars were present for years. Our graduating class had to convince the principal that they were going to do it right. One morning the front lawn was full of plastic forks. Just poking up out of the ground. Another was to have the name of every graduating student engraved on the spoons of the cafeteria (yeah, I took mine). Another prank was to put a sticky note on each locker, with encouragement. It was all very civilized.
Small town, grades 7-12 in one school. Last day of school, 8th grader brings in 7 or 8 large shaker bottles of glitter - each a different color. Friends each take a bottle and pepper all 4 stories with glitter by the end of day. Since the bottles were being passed from person to person, the school never figured out who was responsible. 4 years later, main culprits feel horrible for the janitorial staff since there's still glitter in the carpet. They only regret not buying glitter large enough to be vacuumed.
Unfortunately as children we don't think of who truly will bear the consequences for stupid pranks. And these are the ones that keep me up at 3 am randomly 5 or 6 times a year like a hammer to my chest
Load More Replies...Nothing hilarious happened at my school, but the most chaotic was a (teenage) student killed both his parents, went about his days as usual for two days before he confessed to a friend what he did...
stuff from my school 1. someone had a miscarriage on the bathroom floor (middle school) 2. near the end of 8th grade, a student got pregnant with a 17 year old. she gave birth in ninth grade and the poor baby had so many problems. the now 18 year old dad, who was never there for the baby, made a go fund me and then pocketed the money 3. someone rode a horse through the high school
My AP American History teacher was lecturing us about the Vietnam war, he was an aging hippie, but a really great teacher. So the pep club was selling these little pom pom critters for spirit week and he has one. He proceeded to set it on fire on top of an overturned metal garbage can in the classroom. Graphic representation of the Buddhist monks and their self immolation protests. Sadly he forgot to make sure he knew where the fire extinguisher was. Smoke and chaos ensues, but I never forgot that lesson 😁 Edit: for typos
