Twelfth grade, about to graduate, maybe like a week before graduation. The senior class (~300) were congregated in the auditorium for some sort of assembly about what to do at the graduation ceremony, thanks for doing a great job in class, you still have to come to school this last week, etc.

Then the principal gets up on stage and says, “Sorry folks, we just lost somebody.”

The entire senior class gasps. Did someone die? Who is missing? Are all my friends here?

It turns out that some dude who was an otherwise fine student went up to the principal before the assembly and said, “Fuck you, ” and gave him the finger. He did it just for the kicks. So he was excluded from the graduation ceremony but still got his diploma. But still, when the principal went in front of everyone and insinuated that someone died – it was not his smoothest moment.