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I, on the other hand, got kicked out of algebra class because someone stole my book from my locker. The school tried to tell me that it was obviously my fault because the locker wouldn't have been able to be opened had I only closed it correctly.

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My natural reaction to that would've been to leave the school and every locker in it unlocked over the course of a weekend.

Not claiming any responsibility for it, naturally, simply observing that it had happened.

My father was the business manager for the school system - stuff like that was a bit difficult for me to get away with without weird consequences.

I was able to stay late after school, as I was close friends with one of my teachers. He would stay until 19:00 most days grading work and talking... now that I think of it, I could have pulled some great stunts.

Maybe randomizing the contents of a selection of not so random lockers... (purely for educational purposes, of course)

There was no need to pick locker locks in my school, since you could just stick a screwdriver in the small gap between locker door and frame and leverage the door over the frame (with no damage done). After I lost my locker key I used a screw driver for some years to open it; not even the paint was scratched :)

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