Strasbourg
School exchange to Strasbourg and surrounding areas when I was 12, lovely family with two daughters the same age as me with holes in their pajamas. I digress.

After a sightseeing afternoon we had 2 hours of spare time and off we toddled, with no particular place to go. Ending up at the Catherdral. The Cathedral in Strasbourg is in a small square with a few shops running round it, one of these shops selling bangers, knives, shuriken and all sorts of things to make pyromaniacs blush with desire.

We fell upon the shop with glee. I purchased a small pack of 3 inch "Tigre Flash" bangers that had to be lit like a match. Eager to test out our new destructive power we headed down a side street next to the Cathedral. Spying a secluded spot behind a statue we lit a banger and tossed it. To untrained ears the bang was louder than we had expected. It reverberated around the street and made us all shit our pants. It had also blown a small hold in the soft sandstone of this statue. Shit.

We pegged it, dropping the bangers into a bin on the way. After a hasty meal at Mcdos (classy) we headed back to the meeting point. Only to be informed we were going to the Cathedral. Shit. To our utter horror the Gendarmes had closed off the square and the whole area. A teacher asked a copper what had happened, and he said they'd had several reports of a gunshot in this area. It was at that point, Nin (Narinder) threw up. He was scared for his life. Fortunatly the teachers didn't notice us sweating and put Nin's vomit down to the McDonalds. Scared the crap out of me.

Kaboom. Apologies for length, but been lurking for a while.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 7 Dec 2006, 13:13, Reply)