Corbin studies Romans at school because they used to live here (they called the island Vectis).
Homework for the holidays was to build a model siege weapon and see who could shoot a ping-pong ball the furthest. I fear I may have gone slightly overboard. His catapult was built from 2" x 3" structural timber, powered by elastic as thick as a man's thumb and stood about waist high. It can explode an orange against a wall 15m away.
Exploding an orange is fine. Killing your teacher is not!
She shouldn't have bent over to see how it worked while a small kid was using all his weight to stretch the elastics and load it.
The firing arm (imagine a baseball bat sized piece of timber) slipped out of Corbin's fingers. She was released from hospital the same week but has to wear an neck brace and has been booked off work for a few months!
We don't think the kid will make head boy.
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