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All the computers at my highschool had a shared drive anyone could access. Someone put an executable for a Tron-style multiplayer game in that drive and it caused a craze where, at any given time, half the school computers were being used by students to play this Tron game with each other over LAN instead of studying.

I may have been the one who put the executable on the drive to play with my friends. I may have also been banned from using the school computers for the rest of the semester because of it.

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Lol. Brings back memories of all-nighters playing Doom in the computer labs. IT used to delete it from all of the desktops and we would just ftp it back again.

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I was a computer lab assistant from 10th-12th grade. My senior year I skipped most of my classes to play Doom or Descent with the other computer lab assistants.

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Yup, we did the same with CS 1.6

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We used our schools network for playing Diablo II

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That definitely happened more than once in a couple of the schools I went to. One teacher didn’t care and let a bunch of kids play games in the lab during class. I don’t think a lot of them did so well on their grades in that class.

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A girl my year was killed by a serial killer. It was pretty surreal.

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not related in any way to your comment, but your username…

When you’re doing an inspection down there, do you have to really fight the urge to say “hello there!“ ?

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17 points

I fought with your father in the cervix wars

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A girl my year was almost killed by a crazy homeless guy while walking to school. She got stabbed 17 times, if I remember correctly, including once in the neck.

She survived. Didn’t take that trail to school anymore after she’d healed up.

Another girl died in a go-kart accident. Not like, hook a lawn mower motor to a frame go-kart, but a racing kart where she raced in a league. She went straight into a wall, and her heart dislodged inside her chest. Nothing obviously wrong with her, just instantly dead.

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Lordy this one is so specific I’ll probably doxx myself with it, lol.

Small town college in a pretty red (enough) state, one store in town to buy any groceries unless you have a car and can get to the bigger stores in the next town. Black kid gets tackled fleeing the shop by the son of the shop owners, initial wave of gossip blames racial profiling by the white owners and the students start boycotting the business. College itself gets involved and stops purchasing food for the dining halls (baked goods, etc.) from the shop, severely cutting into their business margins. Turns out the kid was actually shoplifting, and if I remember correctly was shoplifting alcohol while underage, and it becomes a huge fiasco (as if it wasn’t already) with the police getting involved and I think the business sued the college. Not positive how it ended as it mostly happened right when I was graduating.

There were news articles about it online as it got to be a pretty huge deal with the lawsuits and everything. Partly posting this to see how many other people from there at that time are on here (I suspect more than a few).

Edited to add - turns out there’s an entire wikipedia article about this, so have fun anyone who searches for this lmao.

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6 points

Oberlin?

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Yup, that’s the one!

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The Tenni-bator. A guy would approach the tennis courts from the woods in a trench coat and beat his meat to tennis practice. Male or female, if I remember correctly. When they’d try to catch him, he’d disappear into the woods. I don’t think he was ever caught.

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“New balls, please”

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One of the special needs kids got naked in the bathroom, took a shit on the floor and rubbed it all over the walls and himself before strolling the halls ass naked and covered in his own shit. It was a wild scene, man.

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There was a similar kid in my school who had a thing for pooping right on center court in the gym. He’d try to escape his supervisors to do it. One time was in the middle of my gym class during a floor hockey game. It was…something.

Same kid used to have seizures: he’d go stiff and fall over. Sometimes he landed head first. The sound of a human head hitting a concrete floor with no attempt to soften the blow haunts me to this day. You could hear it halfway across the school…

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Knew a girl who would just stop whatever she was doing, find a table or some small place to hide, and proceed to have a seizure. Apparently the hiding was part of it because she was unresponsive and could never remember doing it.

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