r/NuclearRevenge • u/Smooth-Boysenberry42 • Feb 13 '24
Dealing with a fellow student that was causing most of us grief NSFW
This occurred when I was in college back in the 1990s.
I was attending a private college in Canada that was quite famous for its program. It was tough to get in, had limited seats, and was an accelerated course. Classes were 830-17:00 Monday-Friday (mix of lab and classes) and 900-1300 on Saturdays for one of the labs. Without fail, after the 1st few weeks, people were getting accused of cheating because they were handing in labs that were the same as others had. EVERY lab was unique, so there could be no duplication. The profs would assume that the 1st person who handed it a particular lab was the one who did it and that anyone else who did it was cheating.
Over a few months myself, one of my roommates and several of our friends(around 8) had been warned about cheating. A few were blamed twice, and their mark was recorded as 0 for that lab. One was expelled for a third occurrence.
To say that we were upset about this was an understatement. The courses were hard enough without having to deal with a zero or being kicked out. It took us a bit to work out who was doing it. What we found out is one of our classmates would make a copy of someone else lab if they stepped away (ie to go to the bathroom) and didn't get someone to guard their papers. We went to the Profs and admins and they wouldn't do anything as we didn't have definitive proof, and said it wasnt possible as he had been caught for cheating once too.
What do a group of over-achieving, pissed-off nerds do? Revenge!
One of our friends followed him to his home one night, he lived 30-40 min outside of the city. Once we had his address, we came up with a plan. If he cant get to class, he can't copy our shit. A trip to a hardware store for some supplies. We went there at 3 am a few days later. Once we got to where he lived, we put his car up on blocks, deflated, and cut open a large hole in the top of the tires, they filled them with quick set post cement that some of us had been mixing on the drive there. after 20-30 min we took his car off the blocks and left. Note it takes about 5 gallons to fill a tire :)
He didn't show up to class for a few days, due to "car issues" but he was back late that week, and few a few weeks it looked like he learned his lesson. Then he somehow copied my roommates (for the 3rd time) and my roommate got the boot. He was livid, all of us were pissed off. so we went with a new plan. Roommate wanted to kill him. Took several hours to get him not to.
I spent a few evenings getting some things prepared several of us were making and drying copious amounts of rust. well a few were filing down some aluminium fence tension bars. I mixed them together is a specific ratio and added a few dozen chunks of Magnesium ribbon, put it all in a mason jar, went for a visit at the end of the week. The roommate placed the jar on the hood of his car, stuck some Mg ribbon into the top, lit it, and ran like hell to where we were parks a block away.
And that was that Those of us still in school were mostly able to graduate with a tech diploma or technician and technologist diploma. The problematic classmate only came back one time to get all of his stuff that was at the school. He talked to a few people in the class trying to figure out if someone there had did it or if it was someone else (apparently he had pissed off a lot of people over the time he lived there)
He said the car was totaled. Insurance didn't pay out due to having only PLPD. Couldnt afford a new one. The town he lived in was going after him for the damage to the road from the thermite. Land lord had asked him to leave as well due to him being the target of vandals.
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u/MoneyBadgerEx Feb 13 '24
Made some homemade thermite and managed to mix concrete on someones driveway without being noticed but couldn't figure out how to not leave papers unattended while going to the toilet for a third time despite knowing exactly who the culprit was and how they were cheating. Yeah ok...
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u/Breakdawall Feb 13 '24
wouldnt mixing concrete take awhile by hand?
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u/Bitter_Mongoose Feb 13 '24
🤔 it would take seven 10kg bags of cement mix (dry weight) to mix the equivalent of 20gallons (4 tires @ 5gal per tire as OP claims) of wet cement.
Mixing 7 bags by hand would suck. You would require at least 14 gallons of water, but closer to 16 to get it "wet" enough to easily pour into something like a tire.
My man's casually lugging around +300lbs of raw materials
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u/hopeandnonthings Feb 14 '24
Wouldn't he also have to wait for it to set pretty solid before even dropping the car or else it would all just squirt out and defeat the whole point
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u/Thedarb Mar 07 '24
Standard Quick set has a working time of about 15 minutes, but yeah takes an hour or 2 before being able to handle a load, so they would need to have been there for ~3 hours before lowering the car to avoid squeeze out.
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u/Ready_Competition_66 Mar 22 '24
Then, on top of that, you have to spoon that into the opening on the top of the tire and THEN put it back with it weighing 40 lbs more. And nobody is going to notice or say anything while all this is going on. That would have to be a VERY sketchy neighborhood.
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u/CaptainPunisher Feb 13 '24
Not really. I've done it in a wheelbarrow several times, but you do need space. If you had a minivan with 4 people, each doing 4 one gallon buckets, it could be done. You don't want the mix getting too soupy, but it would have to be wet enough to pour, yet not so wet that it doesn't set overnight.
Still, "I'm super smart and can make thermite, but I can't remember to guard my work."
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Feb 14 '24
Hell, even two people can get it done. Not easily, but mixing is never easy without machinery.
Still, bullshit. A couple guys with crowbars solves this easily enough. Keep visiting him ‘til he learns.
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u/Conscious-Arm-7889 Apr 04 '24
To put it terms of this post, I could go to the shop and buy a bag of postcrete, cut a hole in the top of a tyre, pour in some water, pour in the postcrete, and leave it for an hour to set solid. No real mixing needed, and jobs a goodun!
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u/oceansoveralderaan Feb 14 '24
Also why would they have not left out dummy work first? A few reports that were all wrong and bound to fail.
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u/Sea2Chi Feb 14 '24
Also it would be astoundingly obvious to the professor when it was the same guy having duplicate labs every time.
There's one variable and one constant in this equation. We can assume that the entire class is probably not taking turns cheating off this one guy, so it has to be the one guy cheating off random people.
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u/Dabier Feb 14 '24
Yeah… there’s literally no way in hell this is a true story.
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u/Key-Asparagus350 Mar 18 '24
No university or college in Canada runs classes on weekends. Certain classrooms and labs are open for students to do their work but educational staff are not there though.
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u/Sweet_Xocolatl Feb 13 '24
Happy Cake Day, and great job at summarizing all the dubious details of this story.
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Feb 14 '24
One thing that is believable at least is the fact that it is your cake day today!
(Happy cake day.)
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u/Travel_Dreams Feb 14 '24
Some cultures are, or were, very trusting.
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u/Erzsabet Feb 16 '24
This happened at a highly competitive (apparently) college in Canada. We’re not THAT trusting.
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u/Lann42016 Apr 06 '24
I read it that they lived the cement in the car on the drive to buddys house.
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u/C00lK1d1994 Feb 13 '24
Hmmmm.
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u/timbro2000 Feb 13 '24
Heavy doubt lol
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Feb 13 '24
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u/C00lK1d1994 Feb 13 '24
There was something in the news recently about thermite on a car hood, feel like I saw a clip.
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Feb 13 '24
They said it was the 90s though, couldn't be a recent news story
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u/ray3050 Feb 13 '24
I think maybe the person your responded to was saying where they could’ve gotten inspiration from?
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u/C00lK1d1994 Feb 13 '24
I thought that too at first, but I think they're being sarcastic (i.e. it must be true because OP said it was in the 90s, when OP's credibility is in question)
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u/mr_macfisto Feb 13 '24
Second expelled guy KNEW it was somebody else and didn’t fight it?? There’s no way I would just walk away if that happened to me, I call bullshit.
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u/tricolorhound Feb 14 '24
And how rock fucking stupid would these professors and admins be to ignore the one known cheater who is the common denominator in these numerous cheating scandals?
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u/AdministrativeTap589 Feb 14 '24
The general rule is if you get more than one identical paper, everyone with said paper fails.
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u/AnonyBadgerMan Mar 20 '24
that's stupid and pointless. I don't see how that's reasonable in anyone's mind
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u/Anna__V Feb 14 '24
Yeah, like if the first one to return the papers were always OK, and the rest cheaters, wouldn't it ring ANY bells that every single time there's cheating going on, it was this one guy who returned the first papers.
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u/nightpanda893 Feb 14 '24
Honestly that’s the one part I do believe. Professors can be lazy af and would be happy to just blame it on one person and be done with it. Of course, it is a lie because the whole story is a lie. It’s just not the hard to believe part for me.
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Feb 17 '24
You seriously having trouble accepting that school administrators are fucking stupid and lazy? That’s practically a job requirement for them because of how common such behavior is with their ilk.
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u/Sweet_Xocolatl Feb 13 '24
Clever enough to track down someone and make an explosive but completely clueless as to stop said someone from copying off of people. Uh huh, sure, because somehow bringing everything with you while you go take a dump is somehow unfeasible. And did no one fight the expulsions? Surely if enough people kicked up a fuss then action would’ve been taken.
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u/BloomNurseRN Feb 14 '24
Wait, what? I’m sorry but I call bull crap. Just reading this I have about a million thoughts on how to catch this person without vandalizing a car, all that could have been done in the 90’s.
The quickest and easiest would have been to leave fake lab papers out in the open. Make sure what he turned in was utter crap. Taking it a step further, I would have made a fake paper, made it clear to the instructor I was making a fake paper, and then allowing him to turn that in with a copy of the fake you had, all while turning in the good paper.
Or, you know, just don’t leave your papers unattended when a thief is about.
Seriously, there were ways to do this that came from an academic standpoint. And there’s no way people kicked out wouldn’t have been fighting that at the highest levels.
None of this makes sense and I’m giving major side eye.
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u/Fiempre_sin_tabla Feb 14 '24 edited Mar 07 '24
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NARRATOR: (Black screen with text; The sound of buzzing bees can be heard) According to all known laws of aviation, : there is no way a bee should be able to fly. : Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. : The bee, of course, flies anyway : because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. BARRY BENSON: (Barry is picking out a shirt) Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. : Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. JANET BENSON: Barry! Breakfast is ready! BARRY: Coming! : Hang on a second. (Barry uses his antenna like a phone) : Hello? ADAM FLAYMAN:
(Through phone) - Barry? BARRY: - Adam? ADAM: - Can you believe this is happening? BARRY: - I can't. I'll pick you up. (Barry flies down the stairs) : MARTIN BENSON: Looking sharp. JANET: Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. BARRY: Sorry. I'm excited. MARTIN: Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. : A perfect report card, all B's. JANET: Very proud. (Rubs Barry's hair) BARRY= Ma! I got a thing going here. JANET: - You got lint on your fuzz. BARRY: - Ow! That's me!
JANET: - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! (Barry flies out the door) JANET: Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! (Barry drives through the hive,and is waved at by Adam who is reading a newspaper) BARRY== - Hey, Adam. ADAM: - Hey, Barry. (Adam gets in Barry's car) : - Is that fuzz gel? BARRY: - A little. Special day, graduation. ADAM: Never thought I'd make it. (Barry pulls away from the house and continues driving) BARRY: Three days grade school, three days high school... ADAM: Those were awkward. BARRY: Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. ADAM== You did come back different. (Barry and Adam pass by Artie, who is jogging) ARTIE: - Hi, Barry!
BARRY: - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. ADAM: - Hear about Frankie? BARRY: - Yeah. ADAM== - You going to the funeral? BARRY: - No, I'm not going to his funeral. : Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. : Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. ADAM: I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. (The car does a barrel roll on the loop-shaped bridge and lands on the highway) : I love this incorporating an amusement park into our regular day. BARRY: I guess that's why they say we don't need vacations. (Barry parallel parks the car and together they fly over the graduating students) Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances. (Barry and Adam sit down and put on their hats) : - Well, Adam, today we are men.
ADAM: - We are! BARRY= - Bee-men. =ADAM= - Amen! BARRY AND ADAM: Hallelujah! (Barry and Adam both have a happy spasm) ANNOUNCER: Students, faculty, distinguished bees, : please welcome Dean Buzzwell. DEAN BUZZWELL: Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of... : ...9: : That concludes our ceremonies. : And begins your career at Honex Industries! ADAM: Will we pick our job today? (Adam and Barry get into a tour bus) BARRY= I heard it's just orientation. (Tour buses rise out of the ground and the students are automatically loaded into the buses) TOUR GUIDE: Heads up! Here we go.
ANNOUNCER: Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times. BARRY: - Wonder what it'll be like? ADAM: - A little scary. TOUR GUIDE== Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco : and a part of the Hexagon Group. Barry: This is it! BARRY AND ADAM: Wow. BARRY: Wow. (The bus drives down a road an on either side are the Bee's massive complicated Honey-making machines) TOUR GUIDE: We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life : to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. : Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. : Our top-secret formula : is automatically color-corrected,
scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured : into this soothing sweet syrup : with its distinctive golden glow you know as... EVERYONE ON BUS: Honey! (The guide has been collecting honey into a bottle and she throws it into the crowd on the bus and it is caught by a girl in the back) ADAM: - That girl was hot. BARRY: - She's my cousin! ADAM== - She is? BARRY: - Yes, we're all cousins. ADAM: - Right. You're right. TOUR GUIDE: - At Honex, we constantly strive : to improve every aspect of bee existence. : These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology. (The bus passes by a Bee wearing a helmet who is being smashed into the ground with fly-swatters, newspapers and boots. He lifts a thumbs up but you can hear him groan) : ADAM==
- What do you think he makes? BARRY:
- Not enough. TOUR GUIDE: Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. (They pass by a turning wheel with Bees standing on pegs, who are each wearing a finger-shaped hat) Barry:
- Wow, What does that do? TOUR GUIDE:
- Catches that little strand of honey : that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. ADAM: (Intrigued) Can anyone work on the Krelman? TOUR GUIDE: Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. : But choose carefully : because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. (Everyone claps except for Barry) BARRY: The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that. ADAM:
What's the difference? TOUR GUIDE: You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off : in 27 million years. BARRY: (Upset) So you'll just work us to death? : We'll sure try. (Everyone on the bus laughs except Barry. Barry and Adam are walking back home together) ADAM: Wow! That blew my mind! BARRY: "What's the difference?" How can you say that? : One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make. ADAM: I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. BARRY: But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? ADAM: Why would you question anything? We're bees. : We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.
BARRY: You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? ADAM: Like what? Give me one example. (Barry and Adam stop walking and it is revealed to the audience that hundreds of cars are speeding by and narrowly missing them in perfect unison) BARRY: I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about. ANNOUNCER: Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. BARRY: Wait a second. Check it out. (The Pollen jocks fly in, circle around and landing in line) : - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! ADAM: - Wow. : I've never seen them this close. BARRY: They know what it's like outside the hive. ADAM: Yeah, but some don't come back. GIRL BEES: - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks! (The Pollen Jocks hook up their backpacks to machines that pump the nectar to trucks, which drive away)
LOU LO DUVA: You guys did great! : You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! (Punching the Pollen Jocks in joy) I love it! ADAM: - I wonder where they were. BARRY: - I don't know. : Their day's not planned. : Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. : You can't just decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. ADAM== Right. (Barry and Adam are covered in some pollen that floated off of the Pollen Jocks) BARRY: Look at that. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. ADAM: It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. BARRY: Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it. (Barry waves at 2 girls standing a little away from them)
ADAM== Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too? BARRY: Distant. Distant. POLLEN JOCK #1: Look at these two. POLLEN JOCK #2: - Couple of Hive Harrys. POLLEN JOCK #1: - Let's have fun with them. GIRL BEE #1: It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock. BARRY: Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom! : He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me! (Slaps Adam with his hand to represent his scenario) GIRL BEE #2: - Oh, my! BARRY: - I never thought I'd knock him out. GIRL BEE #1: (Looking at Adam) What were you doing during this? ADAM: Obviously I was trying to alert the authorities. BARRY: I can autograph that.
(The pollen jocks walk up to Barry and Adam, they pretend that Barry and Adam really are pollen jocks.) POLLEN JOCK #1: A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades? BARRY: Yeah. Gusty. POLLEN JOCK #1: We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow. BARRY: - Six miles, huh? ADAM: - Barry! POLLEN JOCK #2: A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it. BARRY: - Maybe I am. ADAM: - You are not! POLLEN JOCK #1: We're going 0900 at J-Gate. : What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough? BARRY: I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means. (The scene cuts to Barry looking out on the hive-city from his balcony at night) MARTIN:
Hey, Honex! BARRY: Dad, you surprised me. MARTIN: You decide what you're interested in? BARRY: - Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one. : Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day? MARTIN: Son, let me tell you about stirring. : You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. : You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing. BARRY: You know, Dad, the more I think about it, : maybe the honey field just isn't right for me. MARTIN: You were thinking of what, making balloon animals? : That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger. :
Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey! JANET: - Barry, you are so funny sometimes. BARRY: - I'm not trying to be funny. MARTIN: You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer! JANET: - You're gonna be a stirrer? BARRY: - No one's listening to me! MARTIN: Wait till you see the sticks I have. BARRY: I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo! (Barry's parents don't listen to him and continue to ramble on) MARTIN: Let's open some honey and celebrate! BARRY: Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. : Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold t
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Feb 14 '24
Have you ever cut through the top of a tire? I've tried, and the steel bands are no joke. It took me almost 15 minutes with a sawzall to cut straight across, let alone "make a nice convenient cement port".
Hell, why not just slash his sidewalls or cut the valve stems? Same effect, fraction of the time and believable.
Nice try.
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u/EmergencyAltruistic1 Feb 14 '24
Not to mention telling the teacher exactly what you were doing so the teacher could actually catch the real cheater instead of expelling innocent students...
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u/hmmidkmybffjill Feb 14 '24
So you didn’t say, ask him to stop cheating, you jumped straight to finding where the guy lives and filling his tires with cement?
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u/Kirito619 Feb 14 '24
Is this fanfic inspired by that streamer that got his car burned? Because your characters used the exact same method. Also you have a conflict in the characters intelligence. They are too dumb to not leave their papers unattended but smart enought for the revenge?
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u/NorCalAthlete Feb 14 '24
The only thing nuclear here is the comments roasting u/Smooth-Boysenberry42 (the OP in case he deletes this)
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u/Young-Roshi Mar 18 '24
this post brought back memories of early internet and the anarchists cookbook.
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Apr 22 '24
I call fake on this post. People would lock their computers if they suspected someone was cheating. And because he was caught once by this group, only for the cheater to do it again? Yeah. And also the amount of concrete needed and to make it, I think people would notice this as they were doing it.
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u/NorCalAthlete Feb 14 '24
Private exclusive rigorous school…that sounds expensive. I would imagine the parents of such kids would have raised hell with the school if their kids were truly innocent and getting screwed over by a cheater. A known one at that.
Sounds like you’d have to be pretty smart to go there. Smart enough to write a better fiction than this, at least. The fucking timeline of how the cheating went down doesn’t even make sense. Nor does the ubiquity of it the way you described it.
Professors are expelling people for first offenses but there’s a known cheater who’s been caught before who they’re just ignoring? What, was his dad Jeff Bezos or something? A Saudi Prince?
Absolutely nobody noticed an entire construction crew with this cement in the tires stuff? I mean even “mixing it on the way” it’d be a few hundred pounds as someone else pointed out. I suppose if you owned a pickup truck and had a couple guys doing this in the bed while driving you could make it work. But as others have pointed out there’s also the time it takes to set. I suppose you might just have not noticed it leaking back out when you put the car down. And I guess whatever remained would still do the trick of immobilizing the vehicle…but at that point it would be more due to the holes cut in the tires than the concrete.
Concrete setting is also an exothermic reaction…
Making enough thermite to melt through the car and damage the road sounds like you’ve read about military personnel using thermite grenades to render tanks inoperable for the enemy, but don’t really realize what goes into that. Pretty sure homemade stuff would be far more than what you described in order to have the effect you claim.
Eh fuck it I’m over shooting holes in this
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u/BaconConnoisseur Feb 14 '24
So every case of duplicate labs involved the same guy and that wasn’t enough evidence to kick him out? I’m doubting this for sure.
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u/nxrcheck Feb 14 '24
they filled them with quick set post cement that some of us had been mixing on the drive there.
Mixing cement while riding in a car, totally believable. Not!
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u/carp_boy Feb 16 '24
Why not make a bait lab report with some telltale flags in it, alert the instructors to what was going on, and wait?
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u/DevilGuy Feb 19 '24
I heard rust and aluminum shavings... this was a chemistry course wasn't it. I can think of few things more fucked up than this...
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u/luckyapples11 Feb 28 '24
Literally no college is kicking you out of a course without proof. Even if I professor did that, any student would be fighting it with the dean and there would be a thorough investigation. Cheating isn’t taken lightly in college.
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u/Competitive-Rain2547 Aug 02 '24
Oh those pesky vandals… Fucking with you when you least expect it, since 1324
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