Go straight to school, directly to school, do not pass go
No thanks, I'd much rather wag it and do naughty things with girls in the park and drink beer in the sun. Okay, me and my mates had been caught playing truant a couple of times but hey, the good times outweighed the suspensions, detentions and getting caught by teachers, British Transport Police and the Old Bill.

One day about twenty of us decided to fuck school off and go to the park. One kid brought along his air pistol and some pellets and was messing around with it. We were all having a laugh, chilling out when two police cars pulled up on the main road on the other side the parks low metal fence. A couple of kids started legging it across the vast open grass, me and most of the others stayed put. Within seconds, two more police cars screeched to a halt in front of the two opposite entrances to the park and coppers ran in all directions trapping us in against the fence and catching the ones that had tried to make a run for it.

After everyone was brought together in an OK Corrall stylee we were all searched thoroughly and namechecked. The kid with the gun was taken away promptly and we were all told explicity to 'fuck off home'. The crowd of us dispersed, me and a couple of mates went off to the high street spending the rest of the afternoon on the bingo hall roof throwing chips at people. I got home that day, being careful to arrive at the normal time but my mum and dad were waiting for me. My dad had teh mad eyes and I had teh fear. It transpired that the cops had informed the school, the school had informed our parents and I was in the merde, deep deep merde.

Next day at school, I was summoned into the Head of Years office with one of my friends where the HOY was waiting. He was a tall fella with a bonkers schizophrenic temper and a shout that would melt your legs and make your nose bleed.

'Why were you not in school yesterday, boys?'
'Um, wagged school, sir. Sorry sir.'
'SORRY?! SORRY?! DO YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE TIME OFF WHENEVER YOU WANT? DO YOU THINK THIS IS A HOLIDAY CAMP?
'Uh..sir..we were....'
'DONT YOU BACKCHAT ME, YOU FACETIOUS LITTLE CRETIN!'

Etc etc - in the face of 4 G's of pressure blowing our skulls apart we could do nothing, plus we were guilty as hell. He then went on to tell us that a resident across the road from the park had seen a youth brandishing a handgun. As with all firearms calls to police, an armed response unit was dispatched and had been parked in a road facing the park. The police had told the Headmaster that if the person had ran with visible possession of the firearm, they would have shot him with the intention of disabling and disarming him.

We were suspended for three days, however it deterred me not from playing truant. Just not around kids with guns.

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( prem1um is full of life, Fri 5 May 2006, 16:12, Reply)