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Old 5th Nov 2020, 12:00 am   #32
lightning
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Default Re: A confession

This is great, makes me feel much better about my destructive past.

Here's another gem from my childhood. My school decided to start an "electronics club" and requested donations of TV's and radios from parents.
Soon, there was a store room full of these donated items, as l discovered by chance one lunchtime.

l passed on the knowledge to four of my friends, and the next day we all brought hammers to school.

At lunchtime we went into the store room and got to work.
l still remember turning round to see the feared deputy headmaster standing behind me, as my friend laid into a cabinet TV and l swung a hammer at a radiogram.
On the floor was a good six inches of smashed chassis, wood and bakelite.
At least we knew to break the "neck" off TV tubes before hitting the screen with a hammer....

The deputy head's face was like thunder and l
thought he was going to explode.

am still amazed that we didn't get into more trouble, we only had to go back after school and clean it all up.

The "electronics club" was scrapped
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