Morris Minor Owners Club

we have had snow in the midlands and some little sh*t's just frightened the life out of me by throwing a snowball at the window

BOOOOOO HOOOOOO

Very annoying but not as bad as when some kids (pre-teen) threw some stones at the front of the truck I was driving at the time and cracked the front screen.

same happened to me was driving to west yorkshire first time on the motorway by my self . and as soon as i got off the m/way two little ******* did it to me. they werent happy when i stoped and got out of the car.

V dangerous to stop on M/way - don't do it!

i didnt stop on the m/way ive changed what i put it said as soon as i got off.

Ahhh. Used to have hours of fun snowballing cars............. Not fair to put stones in though........

For the last 30 years some little (WARNING DO NOT SWEAR OR YOU WILL BE BANNED) shtis mine included have used the same place to bombard cars every time it snows and it snows quite a lot here. You get used to it. Every now and then an irate tourist will chase them- that is after all what they are hoping for. Its only really bad if there are stones in the snow or if you drive a van

Did anyone see that news article about the Washington detective that pulled his sidearm on a group of people that were having a snowball fight, because he was hit by a snowball?

i saw that on the news

Snowballing is great until a stray one hits you in the face! I will hold my hand up and say, it's probably worse than having one in the goulies.... being the victim of both.

We've all thrown snowballs but in my case they were just that and never at peoples' windows etc. Yes we lobbed a few at the snowplough, that was trying to break down a huge snowdrift, that was preventing the school bus reaching us and we cheered when they gave up but that was all.

I suppose each generation gets away with more than the last. It appears that now it has gone too far. In my grandparents’ day, you got the cane if you got you sums wrong or even for not having the right look on your face (Even my mother remembers some “Old school” types, who were like that). That too was wrong but I fear that unless some sense of balance is restored, one day a knee jerk will oust the “Do gooders” and we’ll be back to square one.

For the present, if necessary, I would still resort to corporal punishment, even though I have no children of my own.

I'm only 37 and remember the days of a wooden board rubber flying at people who talked in class. After being hit with one of those, believe you me you never spoke out of turn again! The cane was only given in extreme cases, but by the time I was about 15 I think it had been banned.

Back in the '70s, we had a woodwork teacher, known as "Kung Fu Harris". He would throw chissels and other tools . Not exactly the way to teach people about H&S or in those days, the Factories Act .

I'm only 37 and remember the days of a wooden board rubber flying at people who talked in class.

I'm 38. One of my classmates was thrown across a classroom by a teacher and lost a tooth when he hit his face on the TV stand. He was one of the smelly kids with waster parents, so apart from a lot of gossip, nothing happened!
Compared to my other middle school teachers, this was not that out of the ordinary. One of them took a dislike to me (including throwing a chair) and I hope one day to meet again him to discuss as I'm not 10 anymore. Another got many years inside for extra curricular activities with a female pupil (she got pregnant). My next teacher continued the dislike, but mainly because my dad taught at a rival school. My dad complained, they moved me down to the low class, despite me being one of the brightest kids in the school. That teacher was the nastiest teacher I ever had but at least she wasn't violent, and she could teach. I was so glad eventually to be old enough to leave that school.
In my senior school not much bad happened, but one of my former teachers got sacked for misbehaving with a female pupil onsite.

Without the cane or any real discipline, the teachers can be more regularly on the recieving end of the violence and abuse

Either way, thank goodness that the majority are still sensible.