Did your high school ever have an incident or event? What was it? My high school had some kind of

scandal with a music teacher and an underage boy. The school's reputation was so trashed they had to

change the name of the school to keep people from making the association. A student at my high school

shot himself in the chest at lunchtime in front of his ex-girlfriend because she had broken up with him.

He didn't survive.

I used to live in the United States Virgin Islands on a smallish island called St. Thomas,

and back in my freshman year, school was called off early within the first few periods of the day.

And we weren't allowed to leave the buildings we were in until our parents came to pick us up.

No one was really sure what was happening until SWAT teams pulled up to the school and started

filing out along the street, and that's when word reached us that a Bengal tiger had escaped within

the island, which was a surprise considering our nearest zoo catered to aquatic animals.

Once my dad came to pick me up, I was escorted out of the school's gates,

with two SWAT members covering both sides, and as we left, learned that most of the main town

had been occupied by SWAT teams, which I wasn't even aware we had on the island up until

that point, with roadblocks set up here and there, all ready to stop themselves a tiger.

The next day, however, we learned that there was not an escaped

tiger on the island, but that there was instead a lost Bengal cat that had been named tiger

by its owner that was misprinted in the newspaper as being an actual tiger, that caused a giant

freaking panic across the whole island. In conclusion, part of an island was shut down by a freaking

house cat. Since there's

been a few people asking if he was ever found, from what I can gather, the tiger has been

missing to this day. Holy crap, I think you win the thread. My school was having a spirit

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