02 May, 2006

A Fun Activity

So let me tell you about something that happened in Savaii last week.

Two high schools, the Catholic Marist School and the Wesleyan Methodist School were in rugby tournament that the Marist school won. After the game, a rock broke the windshield of the parked Marist school van. This rock was probably thrown by a Wesleyan student, but no one knows for certain.

Because "they started it", the principle of the Marist school, Brother James, took his kids and brought them to a secluded part of the road and told them to get off the bus and gather stones. They waited in ambush for the Wesleyan bus to come around the corner, and the good priest instructed his sheep to start hurling their stones (rocks, really) at the unsuspecting bus.

The driver was hit in the face and veered off the road and hit a tree. A bunch of kids had to be taken to the hospital and the secretary had to be brought to the main island of Uplolu and attend the hospital here after a rock smashed her jaw. One student had a fractured wrist, but everyone was still walking. Oddly, the Samoa Observer article that came out the next day defended the Marist school, pointing out that the Wesleyan school's principal was away and therefore could not control his kids.

Both schools have been shut down and its. You can read about it in the Radio New Zealand article here: A fight with students from a rival college shuts down a school in Samoa

Now for the fun activity! Get your bibles out now!
How many of you can name parts of the Bible which would condone this behavior?
How many can name parts which would condemn it?

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