Mini Cooper doughnuts
Back in primary school in the early 80's when I was about 8 or 9 there was an incident involving a bunch of teens who went to the high school next door.

It was Spring time, the weather was fine and the Headmaster had made the joyous decision that we were allowed into the playing fields adjacent to our school.

It was lunch time and I was caught up in the game of football my year were playing when a commotion further down the field started to grab everyone's attention. This is a fairly long field, a good quarter of a mile minimum and my primary school and the high school were situated at one end.

Bombing up from the far end was a Mini and hanging out its windows were a couple of kids in the recognisable uniform of the high school (Copland for anyone that knows the area) and when it reached about a hundred yards from us the driver started doing doughnuts. This captivated all us young 'uns while our teachers looked on with much concern and started to try and herd us back into the saftey of the playgrounds.

This went on for a few minutes with the 4 or 5 kids in the Mini laughing their arses off and ploughing up more field, of course in the meantime a teacher had no doubt got on the phone and dialled the magical three digits of the emergency services. Thus, two police cars shortly appeared on the field with lights flashing and sirens blaring and the high schoolers suddenly decided that their game wasn't that much fun anymore and promptly bailed out of the Mini.

What they failed to realise is that their wasn't what would be called many exits from our end of the field except for a small alley that ran up between the two schools. What followed was a foot chase as the teenagers tried to scarper and the plod chasing them down, the one memory that is firmly fixed in my mind is one copper doing a rugby tackle on one kid who just managed to slip free and disappear into the alleyway closly followed by the copper who had quicly recovered from his failed tackle.

During all this there was much laughing from us young 'uns as we found it all terrbily amusing.

That's it really, I don't actually know what happened to the teenagers in question as I really didn't care at the time as I was more interested in watching cartoons and reading comics.

Fact: It is the same field Pope John Paul II would land in his helicopter a year or two later in '83 when he visited Wembley Stadium to do mass and I got to witness him kissing the earth whilst being amongst the cheering throng.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 10:42, 3 replies)

When you say 'high school' I'll presume you really meant 'secondary school'.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 15:40, closed)

There's a differance?
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 16:19, closed)

High school sounds far too American.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 11:03, closed)