A teacher cost his school in Walton, England, £120,000-or about $188,674-in damage with just one kick of a ball, according to PeterboroughToday.com.
A teacher cost his school in Walton, England, £120,000-or about $188,674-in damage with just one kick of a ball, according to PeterboroughToday.com.
During an after-school game, the teacher kicked a football at the gymnasium's ceiling, where it struck and broke a brass sprinkler head, immediately sending down about 2,377 gallons of water onto the students and the gym's "sprung wooden floors."
Next the cleanup began. Over the next 90 minutes, staff "frantically" used "snow paddles" and mops to shepherd the water outside through the gym's three fire exits, and other staff were dispatched to the school's roof to try to stanch the water. In the end, a "commandeered cherry picker" was used to lift a maintenance worker into the rafters to cap the broken sprinkler, PeterboroughToday.com reported.
The school's director of business described the noise he heard from inside the gym "like a waterfall." About 100 staff and pupils had to be evacuated from the school, and the teacher who kicked the ball was "embarrassed," obviously.