A history lesson

A long time ago, in a land not so far away, before the "Internet," the "iPhone" and "Madoff", there was a little(r) thing called a "Walkman." Some bloke across the pond decided to punish his some (probably for not eating his veggies) and make him use one of these old-style telephonic harmonic reproduction and transmission machines for a whole week! Those English are really treading on thin ice -- risking an international outcry as soon as we're done with our current ones...

The thirteen-year-old must have been a little naive when he accepted his punishment. Read the whole article on Scott Campbell at the BBC's site and see if he survived, and more importantly if he learned his lesson.