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» Have you ever started a fire?
I was a Scout Leader... highly responsible bloke....
as were all my Leader mates.
We'd had a good evening 'wide game' with the kids, which ended in them setting off firework rockets to signal they'd won.
After they went to bed, the leaders stayed up into the small hours having a few beers. Seemed to me to be a good idea to set off the leftover rockets - and spotting a length of plastic drainpipe by a fence, decided we should see if it worked like a Bazooka, held horizonatlly on my mate's shoulder.
It did.
Whooooosh! over the tents and into the distance. Then silsence. Then a distant glow.
We charged over there to find the neighbouring village common on fire (dry gorse burns well!). Anyway, we fought the fire for 30 mins, called the fire brigade, evacuated the camp site... I ended up in hospital with burnt hands - but was proclaimed a hero for trying to put out the fire, saving the kids - all obviously due to local yobs lighting fires! 20 years ago, locals still talk about the nifght the common was razed to the ground and about the brave Scout Leaders...
(Wed 3rd Mar 2004, 8:51, More)
I was a Scout Leader... highly responsible bloke....
as were all my Leader mates.
We'd had a good evening 'wide game' with the kids, which ended in them setting off firework rockets to signal they'd won.
After they went to bed, the leaders stayed up into the small hours having a few beers. Seemed to me to be a good idea to set off the leftover rockets - and spotting a length of plastic drainpipe by a fence, decided we should see if it worked like a Bazooka, held horizonatlly on my mate's shoulder.
It did.
Whooooosh! over the tents and into the distance. Then silsence. Then a distant glow.
We charged over there to find the neighbouring village common on fire (dry gorse burns well!). Anyway, we fought the fire for 30 mins, called the fire brigade, evacuated the camp site... I ended up in hospital with burnt hands - but was proclaimed a hero for trying to put out the fire, saving the kids - all obviously due to local yobs lighting fires! 20 years ago, locals still talk about the nifght the common was razed to the ground and about the brave Scout Leaders...
(Wed 3rd Mar 2004, 8:51, More)
» Foot in Mouth Syndrome
Doh!
We'd endured a steamingly dull training session on some new fangled computer software (DisplayWrite 4 I recall)... the trainer was completely crap. Lunchtime arrived and it was in our staff canteen. I sat down with my usual chums and I mouthed off about how crap it all was and how useless the trainer was. Did I spot that she was sitting on our table? Nope. Her fault - she'd put her hair up, or down, or something. Tried to dig my way out. Failed miserably. That was 20 years ago and I frequently recall it to this day!!! (PS: If you're reading this, I'm sorry... but you WERE dull and crap.)
(Wed 21st Apr 2004, 16:24, More)
Doh!
We'd endured a steamingly dull training session on some new fangled computer software (DisplayWrite 4 I recall)... the trainer was completely crap. Lunchtime arrived and it was in our staff canteen. I sat down with my usual chums and I mouthed off about how crap it all was and how useless the trainer was. Did I spot that she was sitting on our table? Nope. Her fault - she'd put her hair up, or down, or something. Tried to dig my way out. Failed miserably. That was 20 years ago and I frequently recall it to this day!!! (PS: If you're reading this, I'm sorry... but you WERE dull and crap.)
(Wed 21st Apr 2004, 16:24, More)