Drainpipes

At one time after I had left the estate I returned to visit mumsy and was shocked to find the outside of the house wall and windows (and loads of other house walls and windows) each covered with 30-40 tennis ball sized mud circles some with clumps of mud stuck to the wall. Mumsy explained there was a new craze in town: flinging mud balls with a piece of drainpipe. Ruffians (from the bottom of the estate of course)had invented a new 'game' and would pinch the bottom piece of drainpipe sticking out of the house walls(the diagonal downpipe from the downstairs kitchen sink) and would insert it into anyof the many grassed areas on the estate next to paths, twisting it and pressing it down, then pull it out like unt plunger with a 'mud ball' pulled out of the grass(leaving unseemly holes all over in the grass)
With the drainpipe gun now primed and loaded it would be 'cast' in the style of a fishing rod over the shoulder causing the mud projectile to be hurled out of the end of the pipe with a bullet like velocity SHWWOOOOOOOOOOMPH! through the air to splatter onto walls and windows KASHTOOOOOOOOMPH! that these ruffians were aiming at. After a barrage of mud flinging a most unseemly mess of mud marks was left on the walls and windows, a most shocking and disturbing sight. Apparently gangs of these fell creatures would creep about the estate at night armed with stolen drainpipes causing upset and mayhem to the poor suffering residents, a plague of mud hurling locusts. Mumsy also said they had got so sick of replacing the piece of stolen downpipe over and over that they had to take them off and keep them indoors when not being used at night. How dreadful...

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  1. Please get a picture of the aforementioned drainpipes to further illustrate your narrative Dear mensforth - this is an order.

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