Obligatory this didn't happen today. It happened in 1994 when I was in 10th grade.
I was a military dependent and was living on a US Army base in Germany at the time. For those who don't know, the Department of Defense often sets up American schools on these bases so the children of military personnel don't have to attend a local school in the language of the host nation; I was attending such a school.
A DoD school wasn't like your typical American high school, except for the big 4(math, science, english, and history), many of your classes were online(via Novell Netware and Lotus for those curious) and as long as you turned in your assignments on time, no one really cared when you went into the computer lab. Due to the lax scheduling in our classes, we were allowed to leave campus for lunch.
During lunchtime on the day in question, myself and my friend whom we will call Al, decided to go to his house and pilfer his parents' refrigerator for food. While there I saw what looked like a Glock 19 sitting on his coffee table. Now I only knew what this was because it was used by the main character O-Dog in the film Menace II Society which had just come out on home video and like all white teenagers at the time, we were infatuated with these gangsta movies.
I asked about the gun and Al laughed and showed me that it was just a lighter. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and suggested we bring it to school and show off to all our friends. He was apprehensive but eventually caved after several minutes of me pointing out how "funny" it would be to walk around school actin' like thugs.
Fast forward to when we arrive back at school. Most students are in class so the halls are empty, but still, Al and I are doing our best thug impressions, walking with our gangsta limps with our pants lowered and wearing the hardest faces we could muster. Ah yeah, whoever we run into next is gonna get it!
Well, the first person we encountered in the hallway was our English teacher. At this particular moment, I had the gun and was already resolved to pulling it out on whoever we saw next, so without thinking I draw the pistol and point it at her, holding it sideways just like O-Dog and shout "YO CHECK YO'SELF!" I then pulled the trigger and the little flame came out of the end. LOL?...
I knew I had fucked up when I saw the look of pure terror on her face, followed by the nervous laughter, followed by the look of pure anger. She told us to get to class, so we did, then not 10 minutes later we hear over the intercom "OP and Al please report to the main office." ....Fuck
We head to the office and as soon as we are within line of sight of it, we each had two Military Police tackle and handcuff us, place us under arrest and drag us into the office. They then dumped all the contents from our backpacks, found and confiscated the gun, then called our parents. We were most definitely suspended, possibly expelled. It seemed like hours before our parents arrived and then even more hours while they all talked and decided on our punishment. We were both suspended for a week and given community service and were pretty much on lockdown by the school and our parents for the rest of the year. All in all, we got off pretty lucky. Had this happened in the post Columbine and post 9/11 world we probably would have been at worst, shot or at best, given years and years of jail time.
Kids, stay away from the gangsta life. A mere hour into it and I was arrested.
TL;DR Brought a fake gun to school, threatened teacher with it, got arrested.
Submitted October 13, 2017 at 10:22PM by tifuthrowaway9000 http://ift.tt/2z6dOyL tifu
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