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Posted by: afinch
« on: July 06, 2022, 04:15:45 pm »

Quote from: Skip Trace on July 06, 2022, 03:54:39 pm
Speaking of forgery...

A boy wants to go on a school outing, and the parental consent form includes a volenti non fit injuria clause. (It could be anything from a museum trip to Brighton Palace Pier. When my grandson and I were at the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio in Leavesden a couple of months ago, it was crawling with uniformed schoolkids.)

The parental units won't sign the consent form. (Harry Potter promotes Satanism!!!  :D ) This would consign the boy to an extremely boring, daylong prep period. So he forges a parent's signature on the consent form. All would have been well except that the boy broke his arm at some point (tumbling off the quidditch broom at the green screen demonstration?).

What a mess! A minor presumably can't accept risk, and he was misrepresenting himself anyway. I'm not sure if anyone is going to get sued, but I imagine that someone is going to get spanked!

Maybe something less severe than fracturing an arm.  I wouldn't have the heart to spank a kid who'd just gone through that, and would have threatened a parent with CPS who said they were going to when they got him (or her) home if I'd been the treating physician.  The rest of the scenario works though.  Maybe just a mildly skinned knee--a kiss and a bandaid kind of boo boo that would still have to be reported to parents.
Posted by: Skip Trace
« on: July 06, 2022, 03:54:39 pm »

Speaking of forgery...

A boy wants to go on a school outing, and the parental consent form includes a volenti non fit injuria clause. (It could be anything from a museum trip to Brighton Palace Pier. When my grandson and I were at the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio in Leavesden a couple of months ago, it was crawling with uniformed schoolkids.)

The parental units won't sign the consent form. (Harry Potter promotes Satanism!!!  :D ) This would consign the boy to an extremely boring, daylong prep period. So he forges a parent's signature on the consent form. All would have been well except that the boy broke his arm at some point (tumbling off the quidditch broom at the green screen demonstration?).

What a mess! A minor presumably can't accept risk, and he was misrepresenting himself anyway. I'm not sure if anyone is going to get sued, but I imagine that someone is going to get spanked!

Posted by: Plagosus
« on: July 06, 2022, 07:06:23 am »

When I posted I thought that if I get more than one idea which sparks a story I'll do a muti-part submission of "vignettes". Kat's two ideas have distinct promise. Anyone else?
Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: July 05, 2022, 11:55:13 pm »

Quote from: Kat on July 05, 2022, 03:56:19 pm
One idea would require pupils a little older than your usual characters. In this scenario, two boys are friends. They attend a school that allows prefects to use the cane on other pupils. When one of the boys becomes a prefect, his friend volunteers himself for practice. The new prefect's enthusiasm makes him reckless. He doesn't practice first on a pillow or other insentient object but launches straight into a caning of his friend's bare bottom. A minor injury, such as a cut or a welt outside the target area, leads to discovery of the activity. The injured friend has to defend the prefect on the basis of thingummy.

In a different scenario, a younger boy manipulates circumstances to make himself appear guilty of some misdemeanor or other. Perhaps he's just curious or perhaps he wants to overcome the stigma of appearing priggish. His teacher or headmaster duly canes him. However, when Mum finds out about the caning, she knows her son can't be guilty and wants to make trouble for the teacher/headmaster. The boy must then come clean to exonerate the teacher/hm on the basis he volunteered for the caning.

One possible way to set himself up: trace over a legitimate signature to make it look like a forgery.

Kat

OH!  Kat.  I really like that second plot line.  The tracing over a signature is genius.  No teacher would think a boy would trace over a legitimate signature, because why he need to?  They would for sure think it's a forgery.

You know I am going to have to steal that idea at some point in time.  Not in the near future, too many people would know I stole it right from you.
Posted by: Kat
« on: July 05, 2022, 03:56:19 pm »

One idea would require pupils a little older than your usual characters. In this scenario, two boys are friends. They attend a school that allows prefects to use the cane on other pupils. When one of the boys becomes a prefect, his friend volunteers himself for practice. The new prefect's enthusiasm makes him reckless. He doesn't practice first on a pillow or other insentient object but launches straight into a caning of his friend's bare bottom. A minor injury, such as a cut or a welt outside the target area, leads to discovery of the activity. The injured friend has to defend the prefect on the basis of thingummy.

In a different scenario, a younger boy manipulates circumstances to make himself appear guilty of some misdemeanor or other. Perhaps he's just curious or perhaps he wants to overcome the stigma of appearing priggish. His teacher or headmaster duly canes him. However, when Mum finds out about the caning, she knows her son can't be guilty and wants to make trouble for the teacher/headmaster. The boy must then come clean to exonerate the teacher/hm on the basis he volunteered for the caning.

One possible way to set himself up: trace over a legitimate signature to make it look like a forgery.

Kat

Posted by: Plagosus
« on: July 05, 2022, 02:19:40 pm »

As res ipsa loquitur did not put people off, I'm thinking of going for volenti non fit injuria, explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volenti_non_fit_injuria

Plot suggestions are welcome.