Going Too FarEver had one of your mates go too far? Back when I was a teenager I went to stay with a friend in the country. We took his dog for a walk in some woods - which was fun.
We came across a breeding pen for the local pheasant shoot - which was interesting.
But then my friend broke into the cages, grabbed a pheasant, strangled it and proceeded to throw it around, only managing to rescue it from his dog's jaws seconds before a gamekeeper turned up to see what the hell was going on. Now, that was a bit too far...
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chthonic, Fri 10 Nov 2006, 14:11)
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Flagpole PurgatoryWith a glut of construction sites in my home town, our local sport was to nick the corporate flags from outside the show-rooms.
This became a bit of a cause-célèbre in the local media: Harmless fun vs. Wanton vandalism - nobody had worked out who was doing it, but assorted companies were getting fairly hacked off.
Cue evolution to flagpoles without rope and pulleys etc. or removal of flags and replacement with signposts.
In the ensuing flag drought, one of the few remaining target flags to be harvested was at a local independent car dealer.
This is when it all got a bit much.
One of our number decided that he'd have those flags, by whatever means necessary.
With no rope and pulley, this involved sawing down the flagpoles with his swiss-army knife.
The result was slightly more devastation than planned: Namely a 12m wooden pole (nigh on a telegraph pole) slamming down across the bonnets of five cars, smashing the windscreens, and generally making a rather large mess of at least two panels and bonnet of each.
Feeling tremendous guilt, we moved on to removing cats-eyes from the A1 after that.
Length/girth/cleanliness etc.
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