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Joseph best adoptive dad ever deserves better...Jesus no doubt had him STRESSING (infancy gospels of thomas ily) and he tried his best to deal with this kid and his holy strangeness

INSANE I need to read this

I guess it's something extra for this.

This is "trouble" in the sense that they shook their head and told us "don't do that again", because I was thankfully a good student, and didn't cause much trouble, so they let me off light...

One day, a computer teacher showed us how you could write a simple script so no matter what keys you typed, only a certain letter would come up on screen.

We thought it would be funny if, a la The Shining, everyone came in one day, and if no matter what you typed, all that came up was "ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE JACK A DULL BOY".

This was in the early days of computers in classrooms, so we basically took the simple program, put a line in a computer's opening batch file to run it before almost anything else the computer did, and checked our work.

Once we saw the first computer did what we wanted, we, and this is the moment where we fucked up, we took that batch file, copied it and our script, and then pasted that with zero changes to EVERY computer we could get to after school. I'm pretty sure it was the last day of March, making this an April Fool's prank, which probably also helped alleviate our punishment.

This was a good idea at heart, and a very "sneakernet" way of spreading our mischief, since we had to do this all by hand. BUT, because we just copied that one startup file to every computer, not considering what it told that specific first computer to do, and we installed this on many different machines with different requirements, and just ASSUMED they would boot up fine like the first computer...

We never considered there would be something in the original batch file that it could not find on many of those computers, and they would basically freeze and not boot up past a certain point, because what they wanted wasn't there.

We effectively 'bricked'...a solid 50%? of the computers in the two main labs at the school. We showed up the next day, ready to see the chaos we had wreaked and...it was much more chaotic than we planned. None of the computers they'd started up were working, there was a panic, and they had somehow managed to not turn on any that HAD worked with our script, so they didn't realise there was a big prank that had gone wrong yet. They thought the computers had all just shit the bed at the same time.

So we came forward, because it was just supposed to be a bit of harmless fun, and we spent the rest of the morning fixing our errors and restoring the old batch files. Easy to fix once you knew what the goof was, but understandably confounding if nothing seems to be working and you didn't know why.

We should've gotten into SO MUCH MORE TROUBLE for killing all the computers for most of the day.

what's the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school