Children and Youth in care did this....thoughts for talk 11

1. A youth stole a detonator from the school Cadet Corp armory. At about 10.0pm one night he let it off on the soccer field. The blast was massive. All the windows in the buildings way above the epi-centre of the blast shook.
 A young priest in training (ordinand) in full cassock ran down to the field to find out what it was all about, whilst the rest of the community stood outside the buildings . He discovered a boy in a tree but the blast had knocked him backwards. So he was all but hanging upside down in the tree among the branches.
"What was that ?!  What are you doing?"
" Having a smoke sir," he said.

2. A group of children from another children's Home facility were travelling through Johannesburg to reach the Kruger National Park during a school holiday. So they were invited to overnight in a house in the Johannesburg Home.
In the early evening of their arrival I walked over to find out if everything was alright to find all the children and young people outside in huddles and the child care worker looking rather frantic.
" Whats-up?"
" The pocket money for the entire trip is missing.... one of the children must have stolen it. We have locked up everything searched each child, letting them out one by one.Now we are searching the house" she said.
"Hmm my training of the workers in that facility is paying off" I thought.
Whilst we are all now waiting outside along comes a giant of a youth from the Johannesburg facility.What was called a "senior boy".  He did not have any other holiday arrangements so he was in the Home for the vacation.
"Whats going on?" he asks.
I told him.
" No problem" he says Sir, just leave it to me, " I'll sort it out. Just tell these kids to stand in a circle. I'll stand in the circle and start it. I'll slap the face of the kid next to me.HARD... like this!"
He swung his hand in a great full open blow .... it would have knocked me over !!
" Then he slaps the face of the kid next to him.... We go round like that until someone owns up. It works every time.. We do it like that here.. Its called a slapping circle."

3. Taking the usual stroll around... the daily routine inspection .. mainly the idea was to check the building and grounds for any possible hazards " The safety check" it was called. I came across a spread of some little pink pills in the garden .My first concern was "pinks"... the common name for Welcenol .. a rather popular drug at the time. But they were contraceptive pills. So looking up I could identify the window from which these were being thrown. It was the window next to the bed of a 17 year old girl .. on the "pill" as she was sexually active and had a regular boyfriend.
The procedure with the pill was that some were allowed to administer it to themselves. Others had to be given the pill daily by a child care worker who watched the pill being taken. This young woman was putting it under her tongue, then spitting it out of the window.
When confronted she said that she wanted to fall pregnant with her current boyfriend. He would then be forced to marry her Then she would be released out of the Home... it was a good way to get out of the "system"