When I was in high school, I discovered an oversight in the network administration tools of our school computer network, which allowed anyone to create new user accounts without the sort of disk space restrictions that student accounts had. So I used this to download the shareware version of Quake and then shared the rights to it with a whole bunch of other people so that we could play deathmatch in the school computer room. We told the student tutors that we had work to do to borrow their key and play in the evening and over weekends. Eventually, we got caught, because we were dumb teenagers and didn't really do much to hide anything. The sys admin just walked in one evening and 'shut down your computers and go back to your houses'. He asked for the keys, I gave them to him, and then I left. Nothing ever happened to me. I guess he was probably more concerned about his own job.
When I was in university, a couple of my housemates and I were watching Shaun of the Dead, for some reason I even remember which part we were at, and heard this big bang come from outside. My two housemates though it was a gunshot, so we stayed indoors for a little while to hear if there were more, and then I decided to go take a closer look. Once I opened the front door, there was some smoke in the air, and I turned to the house next to us, which some of our friends, also students, lived in. The whole one side for it was filled with roaring flames. The neighbour from the other side must have also thought it was a gunshot or something, since he came out with a baseball bat (I always remember that part, because it was so weird, since almost no-one plays baseball here). We saw that a girl there was trapped inside, luckily in a room on the ground floor right at the front with a big window. So he smashed the window and I got her to put some bedding over the loose glass and then we pulled her out. Luckily no-one else was in the house at the time. It turned out that the fire had been electrical, but the person in the house hadn't realised and had thrown water on the fire, and that caused the bang we heard. Our friends in the house were in a band and had all their equipment in the house, and none of them were rich enough to just replace it right away. By some amazing turn of fortune, none of their equipment was damaged in the fire.
