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Published: 2022-03-20 17:00:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 940; Favourites: 78; Downloads: 0
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Description This happened sometime during my high school career.

As a boy in my class had, by chance, come across some English bird names…
Some of which was apparently a little bit too much for him to leave alone.


We had these school computers.
Back breakingly heavy, slower than a snail on a good day, and with a battery capacity just about long enough to power the lemon so that it can in turn power the lightbulb.
About once a semester they had to be handed in to the IT department where they would be “cleaned” and inspected for viruses.
They did this with every single computer, I don't envy the task.
Anyway technically the computers was school property, and we were teenagers. It probably had to be done.

Normally all of this happened without much problem, and the computers would be handed back to us the next day.

This time was different.
Because you see, this guy had created a folder in the middle of his desktop…
Just where he was completely certain it would be noticed…
Named “Great tits”…

Within this folder was an other folder.
Within that folder was another folder and within that folder was another folder…
Within that folder…
Was hundreds of pictures….

… of Parus Major, the great tit.


So of course, come time, he was called to the office.
Where they had  started delivering a long and fiery morale lecture on “not storing adult content on his school computer.”

He had smirked.
All of this was according to his plan.
He asked them wether they had in fact taken the time to check what the folder contained.


It is said the IT-workers face had turned three different colours in quick succession.
And that the headmaster had nearly laughed his head off.

Before my class mate had been sent back out again.
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