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I guess I might as well bump this since I have one of my own:

I caused the entire science wing in my middle school to be evacuated for a week.

So my science teacher had a collection of preserved dead animals in jars, and she encouraged students to bring any dead animals they found to her to add to her collection. We were just supposed to leave them in a designated place in the classroom before school and she would take care of them.

When I was going to feed the cows one morning I found a drowned ferret in their water. I put it in a bag to take to school and gave them fresh water.

Now for whatever reason the school alternated days between science and social studies classes (but not any other subjects). I had science on Mondays and Wednesdays with social studies Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Fridays alternating.

This day happened to be a Thursday (no science for me) with the next day being a week for me to have Friday social studies. So I had no way of knowing there was a substitute teacher both those days, and the substitute teacher was apparently not aware of my science teacher's policy.

And I guess none of the students in her classes on those two days noticed (or were bothered enough to care). I am surprised on Friday nobody would have noticed the smell. Whatever the reason, we now go into the weekend with a completely wet dead ferret decomposing in a plastic bag.

Monday comes around (and I feel sorry for the poor janitor or whoever came across that thing - keep in mind it probably drowned Wednesday night) and when the school opens it doors to start there is an announcement that all science classes will be held in the cafeteria this week because the science wing is unusable, but no further explanation is given.

At science class that day my teacher explains that a dead animal was left on the designated table by someone, but had gone unnoticed by the substitute teacher, and due to the smell it would be several days until any classrooms in that area would be usable.

I told her it was me but she didn't care - I couldn't have known and she found the whole thing pretty funny (obviously she wasn't the one who first came in). To top it off, there was some kind of committee that gave out various awards to a few of the teachers towards the end of the year (usually typical school related stuff like teacher with the best attendance rates in her classes), and she got a plaque inscribed with "Dead Ferret Award".
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