The boat could not have been that large if it was moored in 5 feet of water. Nuts all the same though.

The kids in the roundabout clip were stupid but I feel a bit sorry for them. Dumb as it is, it’s the kind of thing that I might have once done ‘for a laugh’ when I was 13-14 and not really thought about the consequences.

Mast looked to be about 35 feet or so.Moored,thats the word I was looking for,if it aint got pedals and handlebars Im useless

lets just hope the girls didnt get hurt and learnt something from this…:you_crazy

Pretty bloody stupid idea but the girls seemed quite willing

the lad said he had previously tried the stunt with a pedal cycle and presumably hadn’t considered the effect the increase of speed would have had with regard to centrifugal force. (do they not teach you this stuff in school any more?)

Actually thinking way back to some time in the early 1980s I’m sure me and my mates back in Reading did try this (with a pedal bike) – it would have been around 1985 or so – there was a teachers’ strike so often lessons would be cancelled and you would be allowed to roam the neighbourhood (or more correctly no one was there to stop you).

We took turns to pedal the bike/get on the roundabout and no one was hurt (the speed was naturally limited by the fact that this is quite strenuous) but some do-gooder like an off duty dinner lady saw us and told the school – there were words about this “unsafe practice” in assembly.

shortly afterwards the roundabout was removed from the rec in its entirety as it was “unsafe” (same happened to many others around the county).

true – TBH though many people didn’t have much more common sense or respect in the 1980s/early 90s and girls got treated as badly if not worse.

There are plenty of harsher things that happened to people in my area that nowadays the people doing it would have got nicked for…

It was only that mopeds were harder to get hold of and if you could afford one you wouldn’t risk fucking it up trying a stunt like this.

Perhaps though people were slightly more worried about getting in trouble or hurting someone else.

OTOH DIY justice was just as common if not more so. The problem is though that either the little shit you take action against grasses you up; you go to HMP or YOI and his bigger brother (or his mates) are already in the same slammer… or you get form for violence and can’t get a job – or alternatively it ends up in your house getting bricked / your bike being torched / your other family members being attacked until the feds eventually get called in by somebody (often the neighbours annoyed at all the racket)

before cops had airwave radios our crew used to hear loads of stuff like this on the scanner.. stuff like grown men chasing chav kids down the street with knifes and axes, peoples houses being done over, feuds would last generations this way (West Berkshire was best(worse?) for this sort of stuff, kept the feds so busy for years they couldn’t do anything about Ridgeway raves!)

probably better the bobbies and media got to him first…

TBH they have all learnt their lesson I expect. The family of the lad who did it was quite brave to actually let their details be printed; lots of chavs are perfectly happy to carry out “DIY justice” against a “criminal” (after all he’s got at least one moped they could nick and/or torch!)

consider that one of the guys who got an ASBO for raves got his house done over and his decks robbed the week after his name was in the paper….

i used to live in crawly .. what a fooknig shit hole ..lol …most of the people there are chav scum .. i used to hang around in the skate park with the cool kids and you would get idiots like the guys on the video doing stupid shit like that .. even tho they didn’t know how to skate they would try stupid stunts and get hurt .. lol ..serves them right as they normaly would of stolen the skate board/bike off some one any way …

yeah i got the idea to do that now … lol … i bet i wouldn’t fall off either …

yeah just tie rope around your feet and the roundabout .. then you can fly like a kite in circuls .. haha that would be well fun …