'My art teacher confiscated a frying pan': 20+ Teachers who confiscated their student's strangest belongings

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 16, 2024 11:00 AM EST

These teachers couldn't stay mad at their students for long. They know all too well that sometimes you have to stifle a laugh when a kid does something out of bounds. It might be super funny, but if the teacher laughs, the kids will get rowdy. 

Teachers are always confiscating things from students. Some teachers take away phones if they see you texting inside your desk during class. Others have to confiscate paper airplanes, rubber bands, gum, and sometimes even food. All of these things can prove to be a distraction for kids (and as for the gum, that just ruins the undersides of desks). 

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  • This list below is especially hilarious when you compare it to the normal things kids try to sneak into classrooms. From frying pan to real, live lobsters, these students brought the oddest stuff imaginable with them. They probably thought they wouldn't get caught, but teachers have eyes in the backs of their heads. I'm sure their teachers wanted to burst out laughing… and they probably told all their friends the tale. 

    Check out the funniest things these teachers have ever taken away from their pupils. Then, one nursing home decided to hire new higher-ups---and one of them immediately started firing people. 

  • 01
    dership Building Team wing Small Business Teachers of Reddit, whats the funniest thing you've confiscated? TBritts Every year, the Chinese program at my school takes a field trip to China Town. And every year, someone buys a lobster. And brings it back to school.
    via Kenny Eliason on Unsplash
  • 02
    Teachers of Reddit, whats the funniest thing you've confiscated.
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    TBritts Every year, the Chinese program at my school takes a field trip to China Town. And every year, someone buys a lobster. And brings it back to school. Every year.
    via u/TBritts
  • 04
    Lt-SwagMcGee Not me but a guy in my class in 8th grade. He didn't like the chairs in the class room so one day he brought in his own chair from home. Kids were asking him if they could sit on it (it was pretty comfy) and teachers eventually considered it to be 'disruptive'.
    via u/Lt-SwagMcGee
  • 05
    [deleted] My first year teaching, a student was throwing a lacrosse ball around in the hallway near me. I caught it, and before I could tell him he could pick it up from my class after school, he grabbed my hand and started wrestling with me to get it back.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 06
    Lesson learned: yelling, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING I'M A TEACHER" doesn't get you very far when you look like a tall child.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 07
    Dewmsdayxx Not a teacher here, but my friend brought a piece of card board to school that he had drawn on and taped the back of to make it look like a flip cell phone. Every time someone's phone went off in class (highschool, so phones were confiscated on sight) he would pull it out
    via u/Dewmsdayxx
  • 08
    and "answer" it. This went on through all 4 periods. Every time a teacher went to take it, they would shake their head as they realized they couldn't write him up for having a phone in class.
    via u/Dewmsdayxx
  • 09
    Liv_bragg Not me but my Art teacher confiscated a frying pan from one of my classmates
    via u/Liv_bragg
  • 10
    Elementlegen Student here. Not exactly confiscated, but one of my friends brought in a little Madagascar penguin Happy Meal toy that had a motion sensor that made annoying noises as you walked passed. He would hide it in our teacher's fake plant or on his bookshelf almost
    via u/Elementlegen
  • 11
    everyday. After a couple weeks of constantly finding the toy, our teacher went up to the front of the class, placed it on his podium and decimated destroyed it with a hammer, probably 20- 30 pieces. It was hilarious.
    via u/Elementlegen
  • 12
    + [deleted] My wife is a teacher. She once had to confiscate a box containing a kid's wisdom teeth. He brought them in to give to a girl he had a crush on.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 13
    JohnBoy8888 When teaching in Korea one of my students brought a live baby chicken into the class, i only noticed this because of the loud chirping that was coming from his school bag.
    via u/JohnBoy8888
  • 14
    polishlawngnome. I still remember watching a kid get a waffle press and batter confiscated in high school
    via u/polishlawngnome
  • 15
    Vuxi Educational Assistant here, I once confiscated over 30 packets of relish from a young girl with autism. According to her, she was going to use them to make finger rests for when her fingers got sore from writting.
    via u/Vuxi
  • 16
    MattySwag I'm a student, but I've had a teacher tell me that many years back he confiscated a tickle- me-elmo from a student who was playing with it during his Physics class. He set it up on a bookshelf and left it there for years to come. A few years down the line, he had that students younger brother and
    via u/MattySwag
  • 17
    during the last quarter of the year in that class, the younger brother gets this weird look on his face and asks, "Why do you have a tickle-me-elmo sitting on your shelf?" My teacher looks at him and says, "Oh, I actually confiscated that from your older brother when he took this class.
    via u/MattySwag
  • 18
    Angry, the kid remarks "So THAT'S where my elmo went!!"
    via u/MattySwag
  • 19
    thebobstu My bus driver in first grade confiscated my Transformer toy. She never gave it back.
    via u/thebobstu
  • 20
    alfalfasprouts I'm not a teacher, but I got the ringer half of a wireless doorbell confiscated by our hall monitor so I could tell where she was when skipping class for lunch.
    via u/alfalfasprouts
  • 21
    The MightyBiz Not a teacher, but somebody in my Econ class brought a toaster, plugged it in next to his desk, and started making breakfast. The teacher only realized this was happening once he smelled the toast.
    via u/TheMightyBiz
  • 22
    Cunningham002. My history teacher once confiscated my wrist watch, claiming it was distracting me.
    via u/Cunningham002
  • 23
    [deleted] Not a teacher, but this previous year, this kid was peeling an orange in class instead of working on an essay. The sub got annoyed so he took it from him. The kid just simply shrugged before reaching into his backpack and pulled out another orange. He eats orange everyday.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 24
    Travesura Not so weird: I confiscated a kid's rubber band. Weird: His father showed up the next day and angrily demanded it back.
    via u/Travesura
  • 25
    sympathy3000-21. A live snake in a tupperware container. She lived in my hat until the end of the day.
    via u/sympathy3000-21
  • 26
    chevello Not me but in 8th grade my friend brought a shock ball that would randomly shock you when you play catch with someone. Teacher went to grab it, got shocked. Suspended.
    via u/chevello
  • 27
    LMAO Calithileth Not a teacher but a friend of mine once took out his old completely demolished phone and started to fake typing on it. Our biology teacher walked up to him and demanded the phone. With the biggest smile he gave it to her and she was flabbergasted.
    via u/Calithileth
  • 28
    After the lesson my friend walked up to the desk, picked up his phone at semi shouted to her:'what did you do?! Its not working anymore!!' She never confiscated phones again.
    via u/Calithileth
  • 29
    chubasco In high school our geography teacher would occasionally catch students passing notes, and would confiscate them and read them in front of the class to embarrass them. She always acted like it was a big victory and she was going to make you look like an idiot.
    via u/chubasco
  • 30
    A friend and I started passing back and forth a note that said things like, "Mrs. Reed is probably the best teacher I have ever had." and "They should put this class in the auditorium and make it required for everyone in school." We were being kind of obvious about it so when she
    via u/chubasco
  • 31
    got it she looked like she had just won a major victory. She gets up in front of the class to read it and can't keep a straight face. I guess you had to be there...
    via u/chubasco
  • 32
    HippoSmuggler I'm a student and a kid in another class brought his Nintendo 64 to school and hooked it up to the TV in the library. He claimed that it was okay because he was reading the dialogue in Zelda so in fact he was learning. Librarian confiscated it from the poor kid, don't know if he got it back or not.
    via u/HippoSmuggler
  • 33
    lonestarstang Back in high school there was a kid who always carried a heavy back pack. He always sat in the back of the class & was a bright guy & kept kind of quiet, so the teacher never thought of him as a disruptive person. Well one day this beep goes off & the teacher ask him to bring what ever he has to him, the
    via u/lonestarstang
  • 34
    student just kind of looks at him while messing with his back pack so the teacher approches him. So finally as the teacher gets close he pulls out a black box, the teacher feels its kind of weird & asks what it does. Kid then replies & says "its a battery", then teacher grabs back & starts to pull stuff out. First the box came out which turned
    via u/lonestarstang
  • 35
    out to be a battery, then he pulls out a small flat screen with cables attached to it, then comes out a big Xbox (the orgianl xbox) & a controller. Turns out he was playing video games. He did this for the longest time, my god how I wish I sat next to him now when we were in class.
    via u/lonestarstang
  • 36
    [deleted] My teacher confiscated every school supply I own. I had to go through the rest of the day borrowing every possible thing you might need for class because she wouldn't give them back until after school and the principals had to create a "unified front," with the rest of the staff.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 37
    EDIT: Oh, yeah. I was throwing all of my at people every time she turned around. Unreasonable.......
    via u/[deleted]
  • 38
    chazspaz I'm not a teacher, but when I was in junior high this one kid brought in a universal remote that could turn on any TV. He used it to turn on the tv in our classroom. The first time he turned it on the teacher thought nothing of it, but the second time she caught on and took it away from the kid. It was too funny.
    via u/chazspaz
  • 39
    ☆4-81 willynatedgreat A HUGE 1980s style brick cell phone - this was back in 2005.
    via u/willynatedgreat
  • 40
    ThePirateBlue My brother took a coconut to school. That teacher said she'll never forget him.
    via u/ThePirateBlue
  • 41
    ♥ [deleted] I had these two bottles of liquid at school once. If you put the liquid from one bottle near the liquid from the other bottle it would start smoking. I put one liquid on one hand and the other liquid on the other and
    via u/ [deleted]
  • 42
    made my teacher super angry with it. She confiscated them and I never got them back! :(
    via u/ [deleted]
  • 43
    Stud2087 My best friend in high school brought a chik- fil-a biscuit to class and the teacher said he couldn't eat it unless he brought some for everyone. The next morning he brought three bags of chicken biscuits. I wasn't mad.
    via u/Stud2087
  • 44
    [deleted] When I was in the 6th grade, my of an English teacher confiscated my baseball glove I had lying on my backpack behind my desk. No reason, I wasn't using it or anything, she just took it. It Ime off so I calmly walked over to her desk after class,
    via u/[deleted]
  • 45
    picked up her grade book, and walked out, quickly turning a corner before she could catch me. I hid it and went back, telling her that I would tell her where it was in return for my property. She made the deal.
    via u/[deleted]

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