The night air was thick with tension at Macon Vocational Training Center's football field when what started as a friendly competition between two plumbing students escalated into what witnesses are calling "absolute chaos."
Mike Tucker, 22, and Richard "Dick" Cedar, 24, had been academic rivals throughout their time at the vocational school. But last night's practical exam—a timed pipe-fitting challenge—pushed their rivalry past the breaking point.
“He fiddled with the valve, man! I saw him do it!”
"Tucker made some crack about Cedar's impact wrench," recalls Julian Calabassas, a fellow student who witnessed the incident. "He fiddled with the valve, man! I saw him do it!"
The comment apparently struck a nerve. Within seconds, the two men were arguing in the mud, flashlights swinging wildly as other students tried—and failed—to separate them.
Campus security eventually intervened, but not before significant damage was done to the training equipment. Both students face academic review.
"This was supposed to be a simple pressure test," lamented Professor Harold Jenkins. "Now I've got two of my best students on probation and a busted manifold."
Neither Tucker nor Cedar were available for comment, though sources close to Cedar say he's "already planning something big."
