""Tuppeny bangers Don - that was posh! We used to get the ones you could get two for a penny and the game was chucking them at each other!""

You didn't throw tuppennies at people, unless you wanted a belt round the ear from PC Robinson with his rolled up cape. On a good day you could still hear bells four hours later, and you would get another clout from Dad after PC Roninson had a word with him.

That's probably why nobody lost a hand or an eye.

We did once disintegrate a tin can when we bundled five inside. Never tried that again.

Making people jump was done with squibs, which would shoot across twenty five yards of open ground at about warp factor three but were fairly harmless.

Don T.