I remember one very cold winters day (Cold UK standards not USA) when someone threw an icy snowball and it hit the French teacher (who was a pillock anyway) right on the ear. When we were lined up to go back into school he demanded to know who threw the snowball and nobody owned up so he caned the whole school. There was some consolation because his ear was glowing red while he caned us and it only warmed our hands anyway. He was absent for the rest of the week with a muscular problem in his fight arm from the canings. He never tried caning the whole school again.