Shih Chung Branch School: The Revolving Cone of Death

One of our favourite playground structures was the Revolving Cone of Death. It's like a half-opened gargantuan parasol, minus the canopy, with wooden planks connected into a hexagon (or maybe 8-sided) at the tip for you to step on. I think it was originally intended as a merry-go-round of sorts where you sit on the planks and some idiot would spin the cone for you while you enjoy the ride (yawn).

But not for us. We had to make it more fun and deadly, considering studying already took away half of our lives, we needed to make playtime worthwhile! So the game was the traditional "Police & Thieves", played on the revolving cone. Normally only three persons get to play on the cone at any one time because more than that it'd become too crowded. So the person assigned as "Police" will try to catch the two "Thieves" by running round and round the cone. If the police touched one of the thieves, that thief would become the police and the chase went on until someone puked their brains out or slipped into the cone or fell off the plank and died.


For the record, no one was killed by the revolving cone during my time but I'm sure it's lurking in the dark waiting for its victims.