Yes, but we didn't know it.
Where I live, we used to catch the train to school - not a real train, but a train that is just meant for tourists and only goes about 5 miles - they used to have some sort of deal with the school - anyway, me and my mate S turned up at the train station early and we were the only 2 there. S spots the body in the ditch under the bridge we had to cross to get to the station. and said "oh, there's a stiff in the ditch."

So I go and look, and before long other kids arrive to wait for the train. Hardly anyone thought it was a body - opting for the choice that it was instead, a dummy of some description. So duly, rocks and lumps of wood and stones were thrown at it to see if it was a body or a dummy.

One kid comes up and says, "Oi, stop that."

I thought he actually had some respect, but no, he just wanted the hurling objects to stop long enough so that he could get down there and nick it's watch - which he did.

One kid got the bus to school that day, but told the teachers that he had found the body, and had to go home early as he felt sick. Lying skiving git.

Wish I'd thought of that.
(dchurch bah, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 13:07, 1 reply)

Dead or alive
Try chucking stones at living people, tramps and suchlike. It's loads more fun when they react. (No watches to nick though!)
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 13:35, closed)