'Mom was going to keep having her arrested as long as she could': Disgruntled family gets back at tyrant school principal by having her "arrested"

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Sep 29, 2023 6:00 PM EDT

You might sometimes wish that you could lock up your bullies, tyrants, and antagonists for good—or maybe even entomb them, "The Cask of Amontillado" style. While you might wish this, it will always remain as such, as it should. After all, it's always better to take the high road… and you don't want to become one of those people who entombs people in walls.

Occasionally, though, the chance will present itself for you to mildly to moderately inconvenience your tyrants for a single day of their life, and—should you get that chance—it would be a shame to pass it up.

This family had their chance, when their community had a jail-and-bail fundraising event—in which local community members are put into an actual prison cell at the request of a donator (for charity) until someone else donates enough to pay their "bail." It sounds bizarre in a modern context, but apparently, these used to be all the rage in the 90s.

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    Font - Posted by u/Lord_Rae Middle School tyrant finds out no one likes her. At my Middle School we had a vice principal who fancied herself a dictator. Any tiny bit of power she got was an issue. But I was a middle schooler at the time and a good kid not often in trouble so I didn't cross her path until 8th grade. Her friend was a Bus driver named Pat.
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    Font - For 6th and 7th grade years we had an awesome bus driver. He was nice to the kids, let us put the windows down when the Georgia heat got too much etc. But he retired and the bus driver we got was an extremely angry middle aged woman named "Pat" who did not like children and made that clear every day. "The windows stay up or we go back to the school!" she would yell as she had the only fan blowing in her face on a 100+ degree school bus. Ostensibly this was to keep us from
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    Font - throwing things out of the bus but that was never an issue before or after. The real reason was that before the bus driver could leave the bus at the end of the day all the windows had to be back up and locked. So this saved her effort. My bus stop was the first she drove by but the last to pick up and had been that way for years. Pat changed this and decided she only wanted to stop on the first pass by and kept threatening to leave the kids in my neighborhood if we made her stop twice.
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    Font - I first got on the Karen VP's radar because Pat left me on the side of a very busy road one morning. She could have stopped but wagged her finger at me as she drove away and left me. I flipped off the kids laughing at me out of the back window but the bus driver Pat thought I was flipping her off. I didn't get suspended because she left me with no way to get to school on the side of an extremely busy road and my mom threatened to sue if it happened again. But after that they had it out fo
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    Font - So the Petty revenge comes in here. I was doing my best to make the bus drivers life hal in little passive aggressive ways. She got annoyed at anything so it was easy. But Karen was harder to do anything to. After fighting with the bus driver and the Assistant Principal for most of the year, revenge came in the form of a Police fundraiser. They were advertising it on the local tv news and local radio stations. If you put someone up for "arrest" the cops would show up and throw someone in
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    Font - they could call a few people and fundraise the "bail". The person who set up the arrest had to pay like $10 but worth it. My mom after being annoyed by Pat and Karen all year put Karen the Assistant Principle up for arrest. The cops showed up and took her to the room where she could call her friends and raise the money for her to go. The idea was that mom was going to keep having her arrested as long as she could.
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    Font - Except no one would give her the "bail" money. Not even for a charity. So she ended up missing most of a day sitting in the police precinct trying to get anyone to put up enough money for her to leave. Eventually the cops told my mom that they had to let her go because it had gone on too long. She was the only one who didn't raise the bail money that day. Letting her know exactly how much she meant to everyone at the school felt great. I had a friend who heard her complaining
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    Font - about it later that day. She had called the Principal who did donate some but the other teachers gave nothing and none of her friends would help out. She apparently thought one of the teachers put her up for it. It's so minor and so petty it almost doesn't count. But when I left that school at the end of the year mom went up and asked her "how was jail?" before we walked away for the last time. First time I ever heard a "Reeeeeee" sound from a human.
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    Font - blondeheartedgoddess 9 hr. ago. edited 8 hr. ago Love the vengeance and Mom's dig at the end of the year. Now, about those bus windows: Pat was an idiot. Closing the windows on a full size bus was the easiest thing in the world! We drivers took our bus' push brooms and walked around the outside of the bus, pushing the windows up as we went. All windows on a 35-foot schoolbus were shut in 2 to 3 minutes max. Plus it had the added satisfaction of feeling like you were slamming down an old s
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    Font - CoachJay158 hr. ago We were one of the last stops for our driver and as kids we were always eager to put the windows up and help. It's funny what a little bit of respect for kids can do 546 Reply Share blondeheartedgoddess I really liked my kids. I used to handpaint wood cutouts and glue a ribbon loop onto them, giving them to my students as Christmas/holiday ornaments. My kids would run into me a few years later, telling me they still put them up every year. 287 . 8 hr. ago Reply Share .
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    Font - Glittering-Pause-328 10 hr. ago How does a bus driver not get fired for deliberately not picking up a child???? ↑ 99 Reply Share StephanieSews • 9 hr. ago Cronyism ↑ 40↓ Reply Share
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    Font - MUSTARDUNAVAILABLE 10 hr. ago We had a VP in middle school who was suddenly replaced, didn't know until later that she was fired for leaving a bunch of special Ed. Students on the side of the road during winter because she thought their silence was a form of mocking her. 135 Reply Share
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    Font - tardigrade-munch 11 hr. ago She deserved that day in jail. Plenty of time to reflect on being a sy person. Well played 42 Reply Share The DocJ 8 hr. ago the only thing she reflected on was how shoy everyone else was for not bailing her out. 19 Reply Share
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    Font - sketne25858 hr. ago When I was growing up, my dad was a local radio personality. He hosted one of those jail-and-bail events in the 90s, I think they were raising money for the children's hospital? Then somebody had the legitimately brilliant idea to have him "arrested" mid-event. He did the remote broadcast from inside his jail cell for the entire afternoon, and his bail raised several thousand dollars in donations from his fans. I still have a pic of him in his "cell" with all his broad
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