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Twitter user @deanlines, shares a viral thread about the incident from his school that involved students discovering a trap door leading to an elaborate tunnel system. It sounds like the eventual heist failed, but the adventure itself was definitely worth writing about. 

Due to the Coronavirus, classes across the world have shifted to the online realm. From there, it's been a rollercoaster of occasionally technologically challenged teachers trying to navigate online classrooms via resources like Zoom; and then students acting like scoundrels because they think that the webcam and/or microphone is off. Now more than ever, it is key to ensure that that is the case. 

This teacher had had enough of some slacker seniors messing around and as a result, negatively impacting other people's grades in the class. Anyone who has ever found themselves muddling through a group project, and trying to keep someone else who isn't accountable, accountable, will connect deeply with this revenge. It's honestly beautifully done. Probably the most powerful lesson the teacher ever taught. Those entitled parents and kids never saw it coming. 

These students weren't having it after their teacher maliciously started targeting people. But thanks to a successful pro revenge, the tutor ended up almost getting fired, and ultimately turned into a creepy nice tutor. Yikes. 

These students thought they'd prank their teacher, but the teacher ended up having the last laugh. Ah, yes. Got to love a nice case of a wholesome revenge. Nothing gives a student the fear like a fake test with a bunch of answers there was no way they'd be prepared for answering. 

This student's business project that involved people competing on Super Smash Bros really ended up taking on a life of its own. It escalated to such an extent that they ultimately found themselves being shunned, and suspended from school. Pretty wild that it evolved into a "gambling ring." Whoops. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for teachers to share the best excuses they got that ended up being true. The following list of excuses truly shatter expectations. If anything, they're a great reminder that the world is a wild place where the unexpected can strike at any moment. 

Talk about a loyal friend. This guy decided to outsmart a clueless bully on test day in the classroom, to support his friend who'd gone through the ringer with the bully at hand. It sounds like the revenge played out beautifully, and the bully unknowingly copied a slew of the wrong answers. A proper fail for a proper jerk. 

This student decided to fake a flat tire so that their lazy classmates in the group project would fail. Just the kind of pro petty revenge that deserves some high marks. 

Twitter user @PAYOLETTER started a thread on Twitter about bad grades people received during school. Bad grades that they assumed would ruin their lives. It's a funny thing. When in the middle of receiving a bad grade, the mind can leap toward conclusions about the future, things that haven't happened yet, and convince itself that it knows what exactly will come of receiving a bad grade. That sounds like some kind of heightened intelligence with an admirable level of processing power. Where was that during the test? 

Maybe the mind doesn't know what will happen. Maybe it's just a place thoughts pop up. Maybe in the moment of great stress, the "failed grade," and the ensuing thoughts of future scenarios...you can look at those thoughts as just that. Thoughts. Not what is. Are you merely your thoughts or something else, maybe, that can see them as that. An awareness? Isn't it impossible to be something if you're aware of it in the first place?

These people's stories about what they thought would happen after a failed grade vs. what is, certainly contribute toward the reality that what is, can be a damn hard thing to predict. 

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share their most awkward experiences at high school reunions. The resulting reunion recaps are enough to make most people squirm in their seats. Those high school reunions are ripe for the bloated egos of old high school bullies to show up and somehow continue the act of spreading negativity. Or maybe you encounter an old flame who still has some feelings about the way things went down...10 years ago. Yikes. 

This fed up student decided they wanted to teach some lazy classmates a lesson. So, they decided to put together a fake essay, and next thing you know, some rattled students are confronting the consequences of not even being able to cheat correctly. 

School for many of us was a time of self-discovery and ultimately doing a whole lot of unexplainably stupid sh*t. These people are sharing stories of the cringiest things they've done in school, that likely come back to haunt them when they're trying to sleep at night.