What was yours?
Posted by Sam_Eu_Sou@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 84 comments
This appeared on my feed from r/Millennials and as a late GenXr, I thought it might be relevant here since the late 80s and 90s were wild times for us all.
My high school incident? The Brown's Chicken Massacre on January 8, 1993. :-( Two of the victims were students at Palatine High School -- one of them, Mike Castro (16), was in my PE class.
Confident_Solution_7@reddit
When I was a freshman a bunch of upper class kids went to a party, got a ride from a drunk adult who hit a light pole that fell on top of the car. There were so many people in the sedan they were sitting on top of each other. I think everyone sitting on the right side of the car died. I had a criminal justice class where one of the first responders talked to us, she had some serious PTSD from it
cogito_ergo_catholic@reddit
When I was in 11th grade some boys had the brilliant idea to print a couple grand worth of counterfeit $20 bills and spend them around town on small purchases to collect the change. One of them used a fake bill to buy his own prescription and the pharmacist called the FBI.
Shortly after they were all arrested by the Secret Service, and had their cars and the printer they used confiscated. They got to plead it down to a lesser felony and only ended up with probation.
NativePA@reddit
Same thing happened at my wife’s HS. Wasn’t LC was it?
cogito_ergo_catholic@reddit
Nope, I guess her school just had their own batch of geniuses 😂
Yooper5643@reddit
Take your pick. Kid arrested for holding up convenience stores before school. Kid had a seizure and drowned in the pool. Freshman set fire to the administration building. Riot in 94.
I got out and never looked back.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit
a couple guys got into a beef with each other at middle school. later, one of the guys shot the other guy as he was walking through the neighborhood (bonus, they lived in my neighborhood!)
the guy who was shot survived. he described the bullet as having "bounced off" his collarbone, and did indeed have two scars in that area that he showed us. I can only assume tha the other boy went to juvie but no one could confirm that; we just didn't see him around after that.
SandraVirginia@reddit
A bunch of parents got upset about the DnD club. None of their kids were actually in the club, they were just offended that there was one. Credit to the school, they didn't disband the club. They just made all the members' parents sign a permission form. All good, right? Nope. A few weeks later, the angry parents invaded the school (this was pre-Columbine and school security wasn't what it is now), stormed into the room where the DnD club was meeting, and started snatching up books, dice, etc. and throwing everything into trash bags. One of them also apparently tried to fight the teacher who was supervising the club. Police were called and several parents were taken away in handcuffs.
I don't know what happened to the parents or the DnD club because I was nervously watching from the art club room across the hall. Then one of the other art club members was like, "Close the door! If they see what we're doing in here they'll get us too!" So we closed the door.
Steel1000@reddit
70+ yr old receptionist walked in on the principal boning the guidance counselor in the afternoon.
Principals daughter went to same school.
Counselor “quit” immediately. Principal stayed until the end of the year.
Both were married to other people, small town…..his daughter stayed at school and ignored it. Probably knew already
LoadedLapidist@reddit
An undercover cop posing as a student drug bust
Sheshnation@reddit
Same thing...Got a bunch of kids that were not even drug dealers. They just got drugs for her.
Critical_Liz@reddit
21 Jump St
chrisdecaf@reddit
We had a narc too. Got dropped when the whole cafeteria started chanting "NARC!" at her.
LoadedLapidist@reddit
Dang. The trashy meth dealers at my school were oblivious. I later found out lots of others had a good idea it was a narc, but quietly let things play out.
chrisdecaf@reddit
Ours looked and talked like she was 30.
treeinbrooklyn@reddit
Rich girl's boyfriend had an affair with her mom, who looked a lot like a Real Housewife. Rumor had it he also slept with her younger sister.
My sister ran into him as an adult and she thought he seemed like a pretty well-adjusted person. No idea what happened to the rich girl and her family.
Legitimate_Front8286@reddit
Econ teacher killed his wife who happened to be the very much loved principal of another local school. He fled and hid in the fields for a few days before they found him and dig his ass in.
AshDogBucket@reddit
I went to Christian high school. It was junior or senior year that our headmaster got busted for soliciting sex workers. Same old same old.
bsbsbsbsaway@reddit
Seniors would paint their names on the back road. Bunch of idiots in my class did it on a rainy night. Paint all washed into the drains, which went straight to the local river. Never got all the details but the EPA was heavily involved.
BeefSupremeeeeee@reddit
Pipe bomb in a locker. Didn't go off, kid was expelled.
Zesemmerpijp@reddit
We had one, too! The breakdancing crew blew up a locker with a CO2 cartridge full of black powder. We were all marched to the football field for hours until they let us go.
Rage187_OG@reddit
We had a pipe bomb kid, too. He graduated from a vocational school after he was expelled.
BeefSupremeeeeee@reddit
He was homeschooled after. He ended up going to college and getting an engineering degree.
I at one time worked with him at a grocery store, it was something that he regretted and seemed to always weigh heavily with him.
Rage187_OG@reddit
This guy went on to get caught with CP.
prosechild@reddit
One of the ESOL kids lit a firecracker and threw it in a trash can in a hallway... someone thought it was a bomb so it was a "bomb threat" until the police and bomb squad figured out what actually happened. This was a hot day so the whole school had to wait in the student parking lot for the all-clear to go back inside. It took HOURS and we were all mad and sweaty when we went back in.
brzantium@reddit
https://youtu.be/s5E8nt34xL0?si=T2E07MO-sHzt_aUx
My parents still live the next street over.
MardelMare@reddit
Yowza! Your high school???
brzantium@reddit
Yup, high school and neighborhood.
Sam_Eu_Sou@reddit (OP)
In a world thousands of miles away from there.
Electronic-Bake-4381@reddit
I went to 3 high schools.
My Freshman year, a group of 12 kids were arrested for selling drugs on campus. I was a goody-goody and even I knew where to score, if I wanted to (I didn't). This in no way stemmed the tide of drug sales, a different group of kids moved into their corner 2 days later.
My Sophomore year, a teen comedy movie was filmed at my school. It was a mess: can't get to Bio because the hall is closed for filming - walk 1/2 mile around instead. Lunch today is outside and it's peanut butter sandwiches because they are filming on the cafeteria. The movie did not do well, probably due to the collective psychic hatred from the student body.
My Senior year, 4 Seniors in a car slammed into the light pole in front of the school a few days before graduation. Nearly bisected the car. No survivors. Still makes me sad.
Correct-Cricket3355@reddit
Two students were caught having sex in a back hallway. It was on the local news for months. They were both suspended. Then the school board decided against expulsion and charged them both with juvenile sex charges. They were brought to court but ultimately the charges were dropped.
MardelMare@reddit
… just like their pants!!
(sorry I couldn’t pass it up)
NoItsNotIronic@reddit
Near the end of my sophomore year, a janitor who had just found out he was getting fired returned to the building that night and broke a window to the art room. He threw an “incendiary device” (not sure if it was a gas can or a Molotov or something else) into the building. Several students just happened to be doing a senior prank but changing the school sign marquee and witnesses the act. They called the fire department and the school was saved. But about a third of the school was closed off for repairs for almost a whole year afterwards.
MardelMare@reddit
He would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!
MurrayGrande@reddit
Freshman year, some AV club kids used their keys to enter the school at night. They destroyed the Channel One News reciever. Rumor had it they also pissed on the principal's office chair.
MardelMare@reddit
Not the Channel One News receiver! How are we gonna get our morning dose of Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling!?!?!
Acetabulum99@reddit
They are heroes. Chanel one was garbage.
NicolasNaranja@reddit
Damn you just released a delayed memory. We had an AV class that did the news every morning. One morning we all got a couple seconds of hardcore porn.
Critical_Liz@reddit
Damn, our morning news was cancelled just for showing the Boomstick scene from Army of Darkness.
19Charger@reddit
They banned Pogs at my middle school. Bastards! lol but in high school nothing big other than fights. One brutal one where a guy got wrecked for harassing this guys GF. Bloody mess. But it most mostly party central.
SadAccount8647@reddit
A group of seniors created a fake school newspaper called the Knights Stool (our mascot was a knight) In it, they had an article about the misspelled "subsitute" parking lot by saying the "substitute lot gets fucked" and also had a comic strip about our janitors being replaced with "mexican bush monkeys." It was a crazy day and I still have a copy of it in my yearbook.
AgentGnome@reddit
A kid hung himself from the goal posts of one of the football fields in town, and there was a rumor his friends were gonna Columbine everyone as a result. The truth was he was just a depressed teen who’s closest friends were just garden verity assholes who made things worse for their “friend”.
pnw_rider@reddit
We had a Spanish teacher who was sleeping with 3-4 Senior Football players. I worked with a couple of them and got to hear all about it as a freshman. She got fired, but it was never really talked about.
OhFootballFriend@reddit
Our Senior prank successfully shut down the school. (Student Council members changed the signed out front to read “School closed”, and used the AV kid who was interning at a local radio station to find the password used to notify radio/TV that it was closed.) Only a small portion of students showed up. A lot of use got hauled in and questioned by a cop and were told we weren’t allowed to walk at graduation. I had nothing to do with it, so I got off. The people who did it were all student council leaders and the rich/popular kids so they all were able to weasel out of it.
The other drama was the school dining out my GF was pregnant…which spread like wildfire…until they all found out she was lying about it a month or so later…which spread like wildfire.
sweetnsalty24@reddit
We had a domestic terrorist who was part of the environmental liberation front.
someguyfromsk@reddit
Small town, nothing much happened.
The biggest "incident" from our class was in grade 7 or 8 some people would go out and get drunk in the trees between final exams. Someone who lived in town would forge their parents' signature on a note saying all these people were going to their place, then they would go out and drink.
The problem was nobody could hold their booze and they would come back to school fucking shitfaced so they were staggering around and puking in the classrooms. Everyone figured it out pretty quickly.
After that, nobody was allowed to leave the classroom until their parents were physically there to pick them up. Everyone else in the school hated my class. lol
PersianCatLover419@reddit
There were several.
There was so much LSD that was dosed super high people were giving it away for free. Major regional Northeastern dealers and students dealing got arrested multiple times in the 1990s.
Two bomb threats the first was just after Columbine so the school made everyone go outside to the stadium.
A teacher Dr. Paul Dickler sexually assaulted his underage students, married one he groomed when she turned 18, neglected his kids from his first marriage that all got addicted to drugs, and of course got his 2nd wife pregnant and those kids he spoiled.
A married gym teacher was caught by the baseball team banging some secretary.
An English teacher that was married to my mom's co-worker had a decade long affair wiith a home economics teacher, his wife caught him and divorced him.
Multiple principles, teachers, and a sport coach and gym teacher were caught giving this failing sport playing jock top grades, and a younger coach got caught taking the SAT for him as the jock student had a very black American name.
As my year's senior prank two students from our class got a tar gun and in an outside main area at night spray painted a giant penis on the buildings.
LegallyRegarded@reddit
I'll just say, the Westboro Baptist Church showed up and I did an interview in the local pizza place with someone from NPR when i was a senior. It was national news.
Critical_Liz@reddit
Mild compared to some of this shit but I'll go ahead
The big thing that happened my senior year was that someone set fire to the auditorium bathroom, which I didn't even know existed.
But let me go back a bit, to the 60s, where a lot of the town schools were burned down by a crazy guy, this means that they were built with a lot of asbestos, which the town seems to have forgotten about.
So when they were repairing the damage from the fire, gasp, asbestos, meaning the school had to be closed for a week. Then they checked all the other schools and what do ya know? More asbestos. One school also had mold and had to be torn down.
MisRandomness@reddit
The unqualified lunatic teacher who it took half the year to get him fired. In the meantime - all this man did was scream racial rants, grab at girls asses, and verbally abuse anyone he wanted to. We had many pending lawsuits from parents over the harassment. Idk how this happened but my guess is he falsified all his documentation.
questions6486@reddit
Our history teacher was a Vietnam War vet and would occasionally start screaming and hurling furniture at students. Literally chaired a kid once, WWE-style.
OppositeRun6503@reddit
Fortunately nothing happened during my school years as I was unofficially out of high school by December of 89.
Critical_Liz@reddit
Hey! You're a Gen Xer!
questions6486@reddit
"The" as in singular?
We were a "ghetto" school. Police did drug raids with dogs, fights put kids in the hospital, overdoses in the bathroom, car crashes, bomb threats, you name it.
We also went on lockdown for the DC Sniper and 9/11 of course.
There was one incident at one of the nearby "rich kid" schools where a guy literally poisoned his best friend after he found out the guy was sleeping with his girlfriend. It was like something out of a Shakespeare play. We all shook our heads like "only rich kids would do nonsense like that."
greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit
Lots of outside of school things were happening so I was pretty miserable for half of senior year and I decided to take it out on my first year English teacher.
I was a smart guy so I did all my work and everything but I picked on her, pulled pranks, and would put all sorts of inappropriate things in my writings and vocab tests.
One week one of our words was “retaliate” and I put something along the lines of “I am going to retaliate against my entire 4th period class and especially my teacher.”
Mind you this was not THAT long after Columbine and apparently there were other things in common with the kids who were involved with that like writing my name backwards on all my papers, which I truly honestly didn’t know was a thing. It was just my nickname between my friends.
Anyways, she reported it and I almost got expelled because of it. It was a really big fight between me and the school and my mom. The ONLY reason nothing happened is because I had a clean record previously (I’m a Naturally nice guy) and again, serious external forces were causing me to be a dick so mom promised I’d start counseling.
NotRadTrad05@reddit
Head football coach got caught banging a cheerleader, but we were in the playoffs so he didn't get fired for a couple weeks.
jimicus@reddit
Not high school, but primary. Ages 5-11 or thereabouts.
The headmaster was in the local paper some years after he retired. Turns out he had a little “hobby” which he was able to indulge while at work: he molested young children.
This is bad enough. What I think is almost as bad was the reaction on a Facebook group for former pupils: broadly speaking, it was “they were probably asking for it”.
jimicus@reddit
Jesus. Makes my story look tame.
A girl in my year was knocked up by the head of Maths.
Cisru711@reddit
During spirit week, one day the assembly was a battle of the bands. The 11th graders planned a mass storming of the floor and mosh pit during their performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Administration was not pleased. It canceled the rest of spirit week and banned them from participating the following year when they were seniors.
Delicious-Result2879@reddit
A girl in senior year got run over by a drunk driver, right outside the school.
heyyyyamber@reddit
Unfortunately, it was a school shooting my freshman year.
literanch@reddit
My 10th and 12th grade math teacher had a grades for sex scheme with a few girls. Got caught and fired a week before we graduated. Did 10-15 years in jail.
OppositeRun6503@reddit
He should have served far more time than that.
literanch@reddit
No argument out of me. When I’m in charge all pedophiles get the death penalty.
NicolasNaranja@reddit
Some people in my senior class stole a bunch of beehives and glued them down to the ground and also superglued the door locks. It made it onto MTV.
Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit
Some asshole in my school did a drive by of another high school after a football game and killed two people.
GlowersConstrue@reddit
The biggest news/incident in high school was when the Power of the Principal Office banned Big Johnson t shirts.
My corner of the world in the mid 90s was pretty quiet.
Gullible-Apricot3379@reddit
Mine was when they suspended an AP student for dyeing his hair blue.
GlowersConstrue@reddit
*plays Twisted Sister* except now it is mainstream, and an oldie to boot.
Amazing_Recording_31@reddit
Senior year, a girl lit the stage curtains on fire in the auditorium, it spread quickly. That was a few days before columbine.
_Red_7_@reddit
Someone broke in overnight and flooded the school à la Donnie Darko (but this was a few years before the movie came out).
Also, English teacher got caught having sexual relationships with a couple of the students.
Brashear99@reddit
During my sophomore year a couple students robbed the auto body teacher. The teacher owned a towing company/body shop & was known to flash wads of cash. One of the students hit him in the head with a hammer & split it wide open. The student with the hammer had been expelled from two other schools & our principal gave him another chance because he was a good football player.
The teacher recovered & retired to Florida. The principal resigned at the end of the year. The students were charged, but I can’t remember what the outcome was.
full_of_ghosts@reddit
Nothing particularly noteworthy happened while I was there.
But a handful of years ago, it literally exploded.
RealisticSorbet@reddit
Exploded? like due to maintenance issues or intentional?
Throw-away17465@reddit
Let’s just say it was horrifying and has its own Wikipedia article
Profeshinal_Spellor@reddit
Dont need to guess and im sorry if im right. Damn.
Profeshinal_Spellor@reddit
Alleged video of basketball players and coaches getting down group style with several classmates on a tour bus after winning the california state championship in 1996. Theres enough info there for you guys to sleuth out the school
Ippus_21@reddit
A guy I knew from jazz/chamber choir (big guy, also did water polo, lol) got permission to have his band sing at our on-campus senior party. For their last number (they TOLD him not to do it) they sang a song so full of profanity the vice principal pulled the plug on the amp halfway through the last chorus. Dude didn't get to walk at graduation they were so mad.
Yuck-Fou94@reddit
Song name perhaps?
Ippus_21@reddit
I wish I could remember. The chorus had this epic line that went "It would take a b- like you to f- me over." Google fails me. The rhythm and instrumentation were in the neighborhood of Blink-182, but I almost think he must have written it himself.
Yuck-Fou94@reddit
That's awesome, at least he made it to the last chorus lol
Ippus_21@reddit
Yeah, he self-edited the first couple times through, so they thought he was going to behave, but then he just fkn WENT for it.
lieutenantLT@reddit
On Fat Tuesday one year a friend smeared prune packzi filling on the seat of a toilet in a single serve bathroom. The janitor was so pissed thinking someone smeared shit to make his job hard, he threatened to quit. So the school was able to keep him by promising to permanently lock the bathroom.
Competitive-Tea-3517@reddit
Two weeks after columbine a classmate hung themselves in the school washroom. Every class was on lockdown and we didn't know why, we all thought it must be a shooter. Very sad day.
TheRoadkillRapunzel@reddit
Typical “turns out the football coach was a pedo” crap.