What was the most dramatic thing that happened at your school?

[Mottie]

Actually, that reminds me of a story I CAN tell.

There was a kid at school who was scat obsessed. He shat in a jar and put it in the teacher's cupboard.
His next one was into a commercial foodmixer with minced beef which was used to make the rissoles for the evening meal.......

We had a bloke when I was doing my apprenticeship who shat in the swarfega tin as a parting gift when he got the sack. First person in the washroom got a handful of turd.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

The PE teachers got in a fight. One was an idiot and called the other a Scottish ****, or something.

What is it with PE teachers? All seem to be psychos. Our own psycho PE teacher was Mr Lewis who used to watch us in the showers. On a school skiing trip to Italy he got rat arsed in the bar and ended up fighting an Italian policeman.

Other incident was when the school's ancient Bedford coach's brakes failed going down a steep hill and smashed into the back of a car waiting at the lights at the bottom. Car came off much worse.

Another was in chemistry when the teacher threw some chemical that ignites when it hits water (phosphorous???) into a bowl of water. It instantly ignited, flew upwards and set fire to the polystyrene ceiling tiles. He grabbed a fire extinguisher and aimed it at the burning ceiling that was by now dripping molten polystyrene. As he pulled the trigger, the conical shaped nozzle on the extinguisher must have been loose. It flew off and smashed a florescent light that fell on the benches. Was like something out of a comedy sketch - but being the early 80s, there was no panic and we just carried on. Now there would be an enquiry, authorities involved and no doubt the teacher sacked.

Talking of chemistry lessons, they were an excuse to do experiments that created as much smoke as possible so we could have a crafty fag under the benches.

Our maths teacher had a 3 wheel Reliant. One day a group of us managed to drag it from it's position in the car park and wedge it between two huge stone pillars that supported the front of the school. Then went home as it was 3.30pm. Think he had to get the bus.

 

[HERTS P&D]

How many pointless threads Tea Boy Jim?

Andy

 

[Justin Passing]

Oh yeah, we had one of the teachers' Singer Chamois (Imp thing) in the quadrangle for a while.
Nobody was allowed to talk about it though obvs we knew it was the maths teacher. A bit of a mystery because the quad was cloistered (open, like) on the side where the car must have been got in, and there was a step of about a foot and a half down to the grass, gardened part.
It would have needed a rugby team to get it out. The one which probably put it there wouldn't have been available, though.

 

[Justin Passing]

How many pointless threads Tea Boy Jim?

Andy

They're all pointless, aren't they?
Who is teaboy Jim?

 

[transam]

At a school we were working at

they had a telephone threat from
An X pupil who threatened some American style incident ??

plod was called and armed response turned up

school went into lock down and every one had to be confined to the gym

fortunately we had left the school 15 mins prior to the incident

or we would have been confined in said gym for several hours with several hundred fruit cakes

they traced and caught the hoaxer
Afaik

 

[Mottie]

they traced and caught the hoaxer
Afaik

Damn that little rascal, Afaik.

 

[jeds]

Metalwork class; teacher was showing us how to heat a rod of steel in the forge so it could be hammered flat. He swung around and dabbed the red hot steel onto a boys arm - melted straight through his jumper and bri-nylon shirt and left a huge burn across his arm. He grabbed him by his other arm and ran off up the corridor to the medical room, with him screaming his head off. I know it sounds bad now but we were all ****ing ourselves laughing. The kid was a mate of mine as well.

 

[gas112]

Made swords in metal work and as we had a sword fight mine went through side of a mates nose , thought at first it had caught his eye when realised it was just his nose we carried on

 

[jeds]

Yes, swords, knives, almost anything with a point on it. I remember making a grappling hook? And spear heads which we used to put onto broom sticks.

 

[Diydavey]

Lad being knocked out with a boot bag

You obviously went to school in the sticks. Lads getting knocked out was a daily occurrence at my school

 

[ic1927]

Two crazy lads, brothers, were caught smoking in the toilets by the deputy head, they attacked him and beat him unconscious, days later their father came up the school and chinned the deputy head too. The school was on the edge of a council estate near farmland, we ushered a load of sheep into the main building causing chaos, got a suspension for that one.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Oh, and someone took a sh!t on the deputy heads car bonnet.

I wish I'd had the courage to do that - our deputy head was a sadistic monster who if I'd run into in adult life I'd have willingly decked. Odd that he never came to old boys reunions...

We had a bit of drama one day when an ambulance came in to cart away one of the metalwork lads (there weren't many of us, he was one year below me) - he'd walked into the open jaws of a vice and twisted a testicle, no less

More seriously, we had a lad who ran a track race, 880 yards or something like that, and then lay down on his back on the damp grass, was sick and breathed it in. He suffocated, or was it drowned? This was in the day before H&S and First Aid training. Every time you went on the field thereafter there would be a 3 minute speech about the need to lie on your front if you needed to lie down at all

Then there was the lad at a previous secondary school who had a brace around his neck with a leather support beneath his chin. He tried to reverse out of a Rugby scrum just before it collapsed and got a broken neck for his trouble. Fortunately for him the playing fields backed onto a retired doctor's house and he was watching the game through his back kitchen window when he saw the incident and attended immediately. Saved the lad's life

 

[Keithmac]

Best one I ever saw was in PE at secondary school.

Doing Javelin throwing and one muppet threw it back to his mate, ended up through his shin!.

To be fair it could have been a lot worse.

 

[cdbe]

I once shot a fellow pupil in the neck with my .177 Gat. I used to take it into school occasionally for show and tell with my friends. In my defence, he was the school bully and I was aiming it at his ankles but the wind lifted the pellet as it crossed the playground. Given the range, it didn't break the skin and at the time it was funny to see him clutching his neck like he'd been stung by a wasp.

Scary when thinking back, I'm just glad it wasn't "knife day".

Another time, as it was a Catholic school, two boys of otherwise good character aged 12 or 13 got expelled because they took the hosts (communion wafers) from school mass back to class with them - and expulsion was a potentially life changing deal back then.