School 'bombing' tradition behind PMB school boy's death

[schumi]

Durban - The violence at a Pietermaritzburg high school this week that left one pupil dead and four hospitalised with serious injuries was reportedly due to the school’s traditional celebrations on the last day of class.

The “bombing” game, in which Eastwood Secondary School pupils fill condoms with urine, faeces and eggs, and throw them at each other, took place on Monday, the last day of class.

During the game, Grade 11 pupil Camryn Sampson was stabbed in the abdomen with a knife. On Wednesday, she was reported to be making a good recovery in hospital.

On Tuesday, matric pupil Hershell Fynn apparently confronted the pupil who allegedly stabbed Sampson.

It is alleged that this pupil sent messages to former Eastwood Secondary pupils, telling them to come to school with weapons.

A group waited for Fynn outside the school, and attacked him and three other pupils with knives and bush knives. Fynn died at the scene.

The school was closed yesterday, with only matric pupils being allowed in to write exams.

Parents, teachers and some pupils later attended a meeting addressed by Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu.

The mood at the community hall was sombre, with parents and pupils still shocked by the incidents.

Angry parents called for corporal punishment to be reinstated at the school, saying they were tired of the bombing game, which they had failed to put a stop to for years.

More at : https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/new...adition-behind-pmb-school-boys-death-35166037

 

[John Tempus]

Oh boy, how the fk can anyone with a straight face claim that filling a condom with urine,faeces as a traditional last day of class.

 

[Hamster]

They banned "40 Days" after us because we were throwing black widows and cherry bombs at each other.

Live ordnance, sure, but never faeces. Eww.

 

[SAguy]

They banned "40 Days" after us because we were throwing black widows and cherry bombs at each other.

Live ordnance, sure, but never faeces. Eww.

Oh wow - haven't heard the term "40 days" since I was in matric. Memories flood back.
Some kids just use it as an excuse to be complete barbarians, much like looters using protests to act like barbarians.

 

[R13...]

Where the **** do they find the ****? Their own?

 

[noxibox]

Oh boy, how the fk can anyone with a straight face claim that filling a condom with urine,faeces as a traditional last day of class.

Schools have had all kinds of ridiculous traditions. Often nasty, brutal and disgusting.

 

[thestaggy]

Urine and faeces? WTF? Water and flour, yes.

The hell degenerate school is this?

 

[supersunbird]

Urine and faeces? WTF? Water and flour, yes.

The hell degenerate school is this?

Stabby McStabbys school of higher stabbing

 

[The_Mowgs]

Oh wow - haven't heard the term "40 days" since I was in matric. Memories flood back.
Some kids just use it as an excuse to be complete barbarians, much like looters using protests to act like barbarians.

You have memories of that day?

 

[Jopie Fourie]

The direct consequence of not being allowed to discipline your children by giving them a proper hiding. We are breeding monsters and the worst is yet to come. This will come back and bite everyone, including the court system behind this, in the a$$.

 

[ForceFate]

The direct consequence of not being allowed to discipline your children by giving them a proper hiding. We are breeding monsters and the worst is yet to come. This will come back and bite everyone, including the court system behind this, in the a$$.

Barbarism isn't new or unique to this generation of kids.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

Barbarism isn't new or unique to this generation of kids.

There is a reason behind this. Although, this type of barbarism we are seeing today, where a child takes a knife to school and stabs a fellow classmate to death, as if it is the right thing to do, or stabs a teacher to death or takes a gun and shoots a teacher or classmate was definitely not a common occurrence under the older generation.

 

[ToxicBunny]

They banned "40 Days" after us because we were throwing black widows and cherry bombs at each other.

Live ordnance, sure, but never faeces. Eww.

I'd only recently heard this 40 days concept... It definitely wasn't a thing when I finished school.. Or at least not down in Durban from what I remember.

Just seems like an excuse to be a reprobate...

 

[TheChamp]

Barbarism isn't new or unique to this generation of kids.

Trust them old people to take any opportunity to reminisce about the good old days.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

I'd only recently heard this 40 days concept... It definitely wasn't a thing when I finished school.. Or at least not down in Durban from what I remember.

Just seems like an excuse to be a reprobate...

40 days was indeed a thing in the 1980's. Not this type of barbarism you see today. It was about getting t-shirts signed, matrics not attending classes all day. Throwing water balloons at kids and teachers. It hardly ever disrupted the school itself or caused incidents like this today.

 

[Sean008]

Hurling sh*t and urine filled condoms is some f*cked -up sense of fun !

 

[gregmcc]

A game??! wtf is wrong with these kids.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

Trust them old people to take any opportunity to reminisce about the good old days.

Of course and looking at what is happening today, I have no single shame about admitting to the good old days. It is like comparing neanderthal era with modern day western civilization.

 

[AfricanTech]

I can't even...

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Well I guess this is one of those prerequisites for training to hurl the same stuff during a protest, like the one at cape town airport a few years ago.