Did my apprenticeship with a lad who was incredibly impulsive and had the shortest temper I've ever seen. Not a good mix in a workshop full of machinery that laughed in the face of health and safety and 16 year olds who just constantly took the piss out of each other. He'd had a javelin in the head as a kid at school.
Kid at our school buried his shot putt on the sand on the long jump track. Took about to jumps for someone to find it.
We once found a javelin left on the field at Welton/Hall Road school, then had a game of catch the javelin....true. Didn't go that well.
All I said was “ if the women didn’t take a clothes basket and pegs up with them they’d be able to pole vault as high as the blokes “
My last description before imminent death is women throwing the clothes prop is their javelin . She did chuckle tho - then I got the death stare .