Second Week of Big School 1983
At lunchtime I was hanging around by the tree in the playing field suddenly a bigger kid comes up to me and said 'Oi! are you new here'? I replied in a quiet 'Y-y-yes'.

He said 'Watch this' and picked up a small rock from the floor and threw it as hard as he could.

About 200ft away a small kid in my year was nonchalantly strolling at the end of field probably thinking about the latest adventures of Dangermouse, unaware that I and a few others were watching the trajectory of the missile as it made a graceful arc across the sky.

It looked like it was going to bounce right off the top of his head, and with a loud CRACK!, it did.

I turned to the bully with a look of amazement as he said 'That's physics that is mate, You'll learn that in a few years' and with that the stone thrower strolled off.
( Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Wed 13 May 2009, 18:23, 5 replies)

I like this
As a physicist of course, not a bully!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 13 May 2009, 18:49, closed)

I witnessed something similar.
Instead of a rock it was a javelin.It went through the victims training shoe and pinned him to the spot.We were quite disappointed that it missed his foot completely.Even the teacher called him a lucky bastard.
(ruff secks R.I.P. uncle Jim :(, Wed 13 May 2009, 22:01, closed)

Brill!
Hurrah for didiactobullies!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 13 May 2009, 22:34, closed)

A great story
Further enhanced by the mention of Dangermouse.
( GarbageFan didn't know what to have as a board sig on, Sun 17 May 2009, 12:27, closed)

Brill
He should have used a trebuchet however.
( ejlflop errrrrgs. Regularly., Mon 18 May 2009, 22:32, closed)