Mad Bill's actual name was Michael. No idea. I'd like to say he was dangerous, but it was mostly to himself. He once fired a catapult directly into his own face.
He basically put a large ball bearing in it, held it in front of his face and stretched the elastic back and fired it at point-blank range into that face. Earned himself two black eyes and a golf ball-sized lump on his forehead.Don't ask me why, he was called Mad Bill for a reason. This was a kid who shot himself twice with his own crossbow and not accidentally. He took self-harm to a whole new level. No one argued, it was better he was harming himself than us.
There was something deeply hilarious, I'm sure, about a class of 80s East Midlands white boys who thought they could breakdance and body-pop, having learned it all from a segment on John Craven's Newsround. We were in the da Bronx. Well, Coro Park anyway.
I'm sure that there was a moral panic at the time that it would destroy your joints or somesuch and all your limbs would fall off. Don't do it Kevin, your arms, YOUR ARMS!
They banned running on the gravel at my school.
I remember they banned screwdrivers in pockets at my school
Kim, you are very bad!
Snowballing was banned at my school. It was pronounced something like 'snibbling' over the tannoy by the rector. Yes, we had a rector not a headmaster.