Attempting to free the cane he only succeeded in bringing down the tile narrowly missing him and the boy.
It is unclear whether he continued with the canings there and then , or abandoned the punishments for a later time. I know this sounds pretty unlikely, but as Richard Littlejohn might say , you couldn’t make it up.
I heard the story at the time and again some years later from a different source.
I can’t match that incident in terms of conventional school CP. However, I’ve previously mentioned the window pole hurling teacher at my school, and since this practise was intended to punish or at least alarm malefactors in his classes it could be considered a form of corporal punishment. It certainly would have been an extremely severe form of corporal punishment, quite possibly even capital punishment, if he’d ever hit anyone full on with the metal hook end!
