I well and truly learned my lesson throwing snowballs as a youngster, as a young un i also indulged the occaisonal(achem)snow ball at moving vehicles busses, lorries, never got a gritter though lol, one winter i nursed a snowball so long waiting for a suitable victim,,it turned quite ice'y (you get the idea lions,,wildebeast, predator victim) now who happened along but a happles burra van haa a victim but being a young un i must have got a bit excited and through my snowball too early just as the snowball left my ice'y grip, true and straight my eyes lifted and focused on the target,,,,,nnnnnoooooo his window is open
as the fear slowed the horror the terror unfolded BOOOOF my rock hard iceball finds it's target much to my horror right on the side of the face exploding like a dum dum round on impact, snowy ice all over the the cab of this van, stunning the poor driver (kinda like one of tysons punches) stunned and dazed as this poor driver attempts to recover, the van (one of those big bedfords) mount's the pavement women wain's dug's and prams all jumping for there live's all before my very eyes as he finally slides to a halt i regain the ability to close my mouth as well as use my leg's, i take to my heels leaving only a cowardly yellow streak, i forgot to mention at the start this happened at school and for three days following the headmaster hunted the culprit, i never threw another snowball at traffic after that, lesson learned
