Tell me about the “incident” at your school

[Manhattanboy]

Wow I’m old. I had never heard of a thot. No idea what it meant.

[2Stonedbirds]

School shooting. 3 of my friends shot at, 2 hit, one passed.
Week after Columbine.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by shermanator

In grade 12 one student murdered another over a bad cocaine deal.

If this is the incident I'm thinking of, then I used to tutor the victim. So sad and needless.

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[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds

School shooting. 3 of my friends shot at, 2 hit, one passed.
Week after Columbine.

Taber?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

one day in between classes one of the resident sluts (whos now a real estate agent) was wanking a guys crank out in the open.

[Iggy_12]

Couple that really stand out

Junior High, biggest guy at the school trying to get his stuck bag of chips from the vending machine went through the vending machine and we stole all the stuff in there after

Best friend at the time grade 7, his older brother who was probably 22ish who was super nice to us drove us to the movies, outdoor rink ect, knew my parents. Turned out was dating one of our classmates (14 at the time i think) story isnt completely clear but they say she broke up with him and he went to her house while her parents were on vacation and killed her, tried to kill himself unsuccessfully. Grandparents found both of them in her room. Pretty messed up, my mom told me that she had seen both of them in a park near my house and he came over to explain that he was her soccer coach and they were meeting over that nothing weird going on, my Mom was pretty skeptical then this all happened a couple weeks after.

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Wasn’t high school but my brother had a traumatic experience. We all had ski day right, he went to St. Augustine. He had a learning disability and that’s where you went. He now makes Avengers movies so he isn’t stupid.

As he tells it, had that feeling in the gut, your arsehole gets itchy for no reason. That’s a warning god gave us.

On the way to Fortress mountain when it was open, those switchbacks. Crap attack. He was definitely not a cool kid at the time. Fat as fata nerd. Just sweating. Nope craps himself. Thankfully he had those elastic bands around the ankle snow pants on the way to a fun day of skiing. Filled both legs up to the knee. No cellphones back then. Everyone on the bus is like “I think XXx crapped himself”. And he did in spades.

Had to waddle into the lodge and phone my mom to drive out and get him, sitting in his own #### for at least an hour and a half then another to get home. He should put that on his resume. That’s character building or destroying.

Geez I thought this was a story about your mom for a second

[Geraldsh]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Wow I’m old. I had never heard of a thot. No idea what it meant.

I had to look it up as well. It’s just a new way to say slut because slut is no longer cool enough. One of my friends married the resident slut, and divorced her, and married her again so they can’t be all bad.

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

I was going to school in Okotoks in the early 90's when a kid in High River burned their school down. We had to split the day with HR kids the remainder of the year.

This also happened when I was in grade 10. I was dating her best friend.

https://www.westernwheel.ca/local-ne...rderer-6573593

He came to school after he did it and confessed to the football coach. THAT was a f'd up day.

I was there in the late 80s and I think Brad stayed with my neighbors for a while, I remember riding to school with him for a month or so

[dino7c]

I once walked across the cafeteria naked with only a hat covering my wiener in a bet to pay for a car

[Minnie]

In high school, I attended a teeny school that had about 112 kids in it, from K-12, out in the middle of the back end of nowhere in an old farming community that was considered a village but barely even met that standard. Anyway, nothing big happened while I went there, but 10-12 years later, one of the teachers had an "affair" with an underage student - the teacher got pregnant from the affair, but miscarried. She was charged, it went to trial but acquitted by the trial jury. Her teaching license was revoked though. That's about the biggest thing that happened there and even then, it apparently didn't make much of an impact - people seemed to not really care.

[FlameFan21]

What kind of broomhead would do such a thing?

[Locke]

I gotta say...Teachers sleeping with students is way more common than I thought it was.

[Wormius]

There have been a few cbc podcasts about it. I have developed a a healthy wariness of band teachers from that.

[PaperBagger'14]

Little preface here, this isn’t the biggest story from my high school but it’s probably my favourite (and it might lighten the mood a bit)

My high school had these sound proof “study rooms” which are adjacent to all the main hallways. You couldn’t hear a damn thing from the hallway when you were in there. The wall of this room that faced the hallway was all glass windows, both sides of the windows could see each other.

Well I really liked smoking pot in high school (I used to do drugs, I still do but I used to, too) and so did most of my friends. Well one day one of us had the brilliant idea to go get high, buy some superglue and glue a toonie to the floor in front of this quiet study room and watch people try to pick up the Herculean toonie. The brilliant part was, no one could hear our laughs from the hallway either.

It worked like a god damn charm and I don’t know if I’ve laughed that hard in my life since. Dozens and dozens of people would try to pick it up and we’d all be laughing in the quiet room at them. Most people would try two or three times and realize they were being goofed, however the one meat head football player who didn’t graduate went ham on this toonie. It was a solid 5 minutes of him trying to pick it up, grabbing his calculator case to peel it off the floor but nothing worked.

By this time he had broken a bit of a sweat and looking completely defeated and that’s when he noticed me and my friends laughing our asses off in the windowed quiet room. I’ve never seen someone turn that red from embarrassment before. Best $2 ever spent.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Locke

I gotta say...Teachers sleeping with students is way more common than I thought it was.

yeah this is sort of shocking to me.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Wormius

There have been a few cbc podcasts about it. I have developed a a healthy wariness of band teachers from that.

A guy from my high school who I was acquaintances at best with at the time, well he went on to be a band teacher in Calgary. Well he ended up being one of the worst sex offenders against children I can think of. Just a disgusting person he became, but 15 years prior when we were in high school there was nothing that stood out about him that way.

It goes without saying he and I never chatted after we graduated, we were never that close

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Locke

I gotta say...Teachers sleeping with students is way more common than I thought it was.

Sobering how these teachers with the experience and wherewithal to evaluate situations intellectually can see students that look physically like they could pass for adults but forget or disregard the part that mentally they're still very much children and mentally are nowhere near caught up.

You'd think that interacting with them would make that abundantly clear and higher thinking would kick in for them.

[hah]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Yup. The Wise Wood incident I recall was a couple of smart ass guys penned their own underground newspaper (in the form of the school paper) with pretty funny scathing articles on teachers, jocks, freaks etc, ran off a bunch of copies, broke in one weekend leaving copies everywhere and got suspended for their efforts. Dudes are still legends.

This Guy:



https://calgaryherald.com/entertainm...sm-in-new-book


Also, around this time, the Ronald MacDonald Statue ended up in the Wise Wood Courtyard.


Some dude "smoking" in the rafters of the gym fell through the t bar ceiling onto the gym floor. Saw the hole in the ceiling.

[Barnet Flame]

A couple of months after I moved from Calgary to the Northern Ireland, a buddy and I missed the school bus and had to walk in. We took our time - ans you do and arrived near the school around 11 am. I convinced him, it’d be a bad idea to go straight in because we’d stand out. The best thing - in my opinion was for us to go in, unnoticed at lunchtime.

So we went off to a field, sat by a tree and started eating our lunch.

A British army foot patrol passed by and one of them shouted at us, so we just took off and ran. Then all the soldiers chased after. We ran into the woods and lost them. At the other side of the woods we walked up the street as if nothing happened just outside Bessbrook which was at the time, the site of the biggest heliport (because of the army) in Europe.

As we’re walking up the road towards school, I notice two helicopters circling above. I said to my friend that I thought they’re out looking for us. He told me to ‘wise up’ (Irish for ‘don’t be so ####ing stupid’). Thirty seconds later, one of them lands right next to us and a bunch of soldiers jump out pointing their guns at us. I froze on the spot, but my mate went to run off. I screamed at him to stop - remembering the army had shot a kid dead in the back in Derry recently beforehand.

Then two army landrovers and an RUC car sped up from both sides and all got out and surrounded us.

The commanding officer or whatever he was, was ####ing furious that two foot patrols, at least two helicopters and the police were all scrambled “to catch to dickhead schoolboys on the bunk”. We got talking to one of the Brits who thought it was ####ing hilarious and gave him a cigarette. The CO went ####ing mental, slapped the cigarette out of the soldier’s mouth and then didn’t take to kindly to my suggestion they take us to school in one of the helicopters.

Disappointingly, the RUC ended up driving us to school. We arrived in the schoolyard just as classes were emptying for lunch. We were sat in the back of the cop car with one of the cops while the other went in to get the principal. Half the school was gathered around the cop car watching us sat in the back.

For weeks after, some of the teachers hummed the theme to The Great Escape and called me Steve McQueen whenever I met them in the hallway.

My idea to slip into school unnoticed didn’t quite go as planned.

I was scared #### when those soldier all ran out of the helicopter at us, but that was nothing compared to how scared I was when I got home from school only to find my Mom waiting in the doorway for me.