What was your school's 'incident'?

Four kids stole a van, lined it up with the main entrance, and put a brick on the accelerator. The ensuing fire kept us out of school for a few days. They were caught after tweeting about doing it, IIRC.
— turbo-cunt

Back in 92 or 93 when I was in high school we had some kids involved in suicide pacts. Tragic and 2 teens died before it got stopped.
— Xellos77

An English teacher had a year+ long affair with an 11th grade girl. He was transferred to a junior high while we were in grade 12, and their relationship continued; they would prance around the halls after hours at the junior high which was caught on camera and how he was busted (not so smart). Apparently, she was living in an apartment at the time due to rough home life, and her boyfriend would come by, they’d have sex, he’d leave, then the teacher would come over with groceries for her, they’d have sex, and the cycle continued for months, unbeknownst to the bf. He was arrested the year after high school; of course his homelife with his wife and 2 kids was ruined. I learned all of this about 4 years after high school when I ran into the former bf at a bar and he filled me in about everything, pretty crazy.
— Meowmeowsuplex

My high school teacher always used to tell us in private that there was something wrong with the band teacher, but couldn’t quite pinpoint it- he always seemed too close to the students. More than a decade later, [said band teacher was caught making inappropriate contact with students.](http://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-school-band-director-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison)
— PoutineFest

Kids stole a bust of the guy who donated the new gym to our school. They would take take pictures of him around the "world" with obviously fake scenic backgrounds from Hawaii and mount Rushmore and would all say wish you were here but then the school threatened to involve the FBI over the morning annoucements and the kids returned the bust the next day in the principal's parking spot. Edit: clarification Edit 2: a bust is a sculpture of someone's head, for those that don't know
— baronofbears12

For several months running, some kid would piss on the radiators a couple times a week. It was horrid.
— weedful_things

This kid I went to middle school with was the first juvenile in my state to be tried as an adult at age 12. He murdered his friends stepdad.
— staticvvv

Someone decided to let off a canister of pepper spray. Me and a group of friends discovered it had been set off in a stair way were we used to hang at break time, because we were choking and coughing non stop. Alerted staff, but it wasn't until lunch time when we came back from the gym that there was police, ambulances and helicopters all over the school. They didn't know what the gas was and suddenly everyone needed to be seen by a doctor and was kept inside the classrooms. Parents were turning up and creating a mob outside. Two dad's got into a fight near the police helicopter that had landed in our field and got arrested. News crews turned up and everything. *EDIT:spelling
— Shabeydoo

Girl in year 11 (15-16 years old) got pregnant by her boyfriend that was 18. He then gets mad at her for going out with other boys or something then strangles her with a scarf and leaves her for dead. Neither the girl or the baby survived after being in hospital for a while, made national news and everything.
— Instrumental_lol

Someone dressed up like a ninja and stabbed a kid with a machete in the woods behind the high school. (This was after I graduated, so I don't know much more than these bare details.)
— humcalc216

I'll use my college and not my high school because nothing really noteworthy happened in high school. At Northeastern University, [ten tons of concrete fell four stories from the facade of a school-owned dorm onto the sidewalk of the busy street that the university is centered on (Huntington Avenue)](http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2009/07/disaster_averted_northeastern_building_collapse). This street is as heavily traveled by pedestrians as any on campus, and is pretty typical of a Boston sidewalk on a typical day (i.e. not Lansdowne Street before a Red Sox game but not some neighborhood sidewalk on a residential street either). It was 8:15am when it happened. Somehow, no one was on that sidewalk, and no one was hurt. It was a Tuesday IIRC, and orientation was happening, which consists of lots of group tours/walks around campus. Simply amazing. Would have been catastrophic for the school if even one person was injured.
— 02474

There was a teacher who had left my school and went to work at another school the year after I was in their class. The teacher performed a science experiment that went horribly wrong without the proper safety procedures and ended up setting a student on fire. Edit: To clarify, this did not happen at my high school. It happened at the school the teacher transferred to. This was in NYC.
— AgentWhiskey

My school’s music teacher gambled away thousands of dollars that the students had raised to help them attend competitions. Now they can’t have nice things.
— jbooboo

We had someone a couple of years above me who was murdered. That was a pretty horrible day after that. We were all taken into assemblies and told about what happened and told to speak to the staff if we needed anyone to talk to. There was also councillors walking around the school for a couple of weeks in case anyone needed them. They actually handled the situation really well if I'm honest. There was a lot of fundraising events in the guys name after the event, in particular a students v teachers football match where his family were invited as guests.
— Sltre101

This kid my junior year poked the head of his dick out of his pants during the football pictures. No one noticed till the yearbooks came out and he was almost charged as a sex offender. Made national news.
— jasonwarth0816

Kid brought a gun to school in middle school. School went into lockdown while the kid was going through the halls banging on doors. Planned on shooting people but brought the wrong bullets for his gun. Ran outside and got tackled by police. Now he works at McDonald's and does tattoos from a kit. Edit: kid was adopted from Russia, his actual plan was to go to Russia after school to kill his real parents, only someone bullied him during the day, causing him to grab the gun from his locker and start wrecking havoc.
— Cleopike

That show True Life on MTV? First episode ever was about heroin addiction, filmed at my high school.
— Sublimelyray

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