We’ve all been to school and know how boring it can sometimes be. For this very reason, most students like to have something surprising happen just to break the monotony.
One day, in the school where Samantha Fulcher teaches, something happened that excited both the students and the staff of the school itself.
Namely, that day, a tiny animal escaped from her class and went on an adventure through the school corridors in her “runabout” ball.
The security camera captured it all and a little guy soon became the main attraction, not just in school, but also on the Internet.
She Took A Chance
Samantha knows that it is hard for her students to sit in the class for so many hours. Since she owns a little hamster named Lilo, she came up with the idea of hiring her as a class pet.
It was a great solution because her students liked petting her, and thus, enjoyed being in the class more. Although it seemed that Lilo herself loved the job, one day, it turned out that the classroom was a stone around her neck, too.
Namely, while Samantha was giving a lecture, her little hamster was in her “runabout” ball so she was convinced that nothing could go wrong. However, she did not realize that the door was slightly opened, and that is why Lilo did what she did.
She took a chance and escaped from the classroom while still in her ball. That’s when her adventure through the school corridors began, and luckily for all of us, everything was recorded by a security camera.
Little Lilo visited almost every corner of the school before the school administrator found her and picked her up.
“I realized she was gone when our office manager called me on my speaker to tell me, ‘Mrs. Fulcher, I think you have a critter loose,’” Samantha told The Dodo. “When I asked what she meant, she then said, ‘Your hamster is running to the elementary!’ I then took off after her to rescue her!”
Instead of being upset by this situation, the office manager who’d found Lilo was absolutely delighted and put together the video above, eventually showing it to Samantha.
“I laughed so hard,” she said.
School Celebrity
Not only were Samantha and the school administrator delighted with what the camera captured, but also all the other school employees, and most importantly, the students themselves.
“My students, past and present, ask about her and the video all the time!” Samantha said. “They keep saying she’s famous.”
Lilo became a true school celebrity, but her fame did not stop within the confines of the school, all thanks to the TikTok video posted by @fulchersclasspets. It soon went viral and caused many interesting reactions.
“All I can hear in my head is they see me rolling 🤦♀️😂,” one user wrote.
“The way everyone just politely lets him through 😂,” another added.
The third quipped: “Here we are, complete strangers. Watching a hamster escape to freedom in a little bubble.”
The great thing in this whole story is the fact that this video popularized hamsters so much that, according to Samantha, “some kids and parents say they have a hamster now because of mine in class.”