(11 Jul 2014, 4:57 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Potentially giving up my anonymity here - but we had a teacher who when made redundant from the shipyards - spent time travelling.
He often used to share tales of his adventures (better at that than teaching) and mentioned about a time he was in Papua New Guinea.
Wandering in the middle of nowhere, he heard electronic beeping coming from a short distance away.
As he got closer, he realised a kid from a tribe was playing on a Game Boy, left by a fellow traveller.
Presumably a stash of batteries were left as I can't see the leccy supply being too hot out there.
I remember one of my mates going visiting a Russian Orphanage back in late 90's, it was upsetting for him what he saw, the kids had nothing at all, ran a guilt trip on himself and left all of his clothes he went out for the Russian kids...
Another story unrelated to the above, another mate went to Romania with Save The Children, while there he bought a gun shaped cigarette lighter, he got pulled in at Customs at either Gatwick or Heathrow, he told the Customs officer it was a lighter no a real shooter, the customs man took it, put his opposite up in front of the lighter and pulled the trigger...Lucky it really was a lighter otherwise it would have blown his hand off