A few days ago my attention was drawn to a video posted on YouTube of a bunch of kids in a playground messing about on a roundabout with a moped to power it. They manage to get it up to a pretty high speed (for a merry-go-round) before the 2 girls clinging onto it in the middle are violently flung off. This video is below:

I quickly realised from the title of the video that this took place about 15 miles from where I live, Crawley in West Sussex. Then last night I heard on the news that the police are investigating the stunt. They want to know who the kids in the video are, and if the 2 girls were harmed in the process. They could well have broken something, but they may have just gotten badly grazed. In fact they're both incredibly lucky they didn't get flung into the moped itself, which might've broken a neck.

UPDATE: The police have now tracked down the culprits and the owner of the scooter will be given an ASBO.

UPDATE 2: You can't really have a story like this without YTMND having something to do with it. Hehe.

You can see a news report online, by the BBC, also being hosted by YouTube: