Great story that Dan, thanks for sharing that 
I remember when I was in grade 1 at Abbotsfield Primary in Tassie, they had a school fete with the usual fun things like coconut shy etc, but they roped off an area of a stir well for bottle smashing contest.
For 10cents you got 5 little coke bottles which you could smash to your hearts content. Great fun and quite relaxing but I have never seen anything like it since then. Those were the days before the "fun police" put a stop to all this sort of thing including "cracker night".
I know this thread has long died, but it reminded me of the car we donated to the school fete when I was a youngster.
For a small amount of money a sledge-hammer was handed over to participants who let loose on the vehicle. (I am SURE you wouldn't be able to do that these days...)
