The Real Scope Story

The Entire Scope History

The Summer of '99, while at a Summer Camp at Old Swinford Hospital School, Mark Cotterill's obsessive use of the word Scope rubbed off onto his friends. Having used the word to describe someone who is less than normal and apt in the head, Paul Dickinson was quickly dubbed King Scope. However, they all met a boy by the name of Austin (a skilled tuba player) who was even more of a Scope than Paul. They dubbed this boy Emperor Scope who Mark, jokingly, says executes all those that can read

After a trip to the town centre they arm themselves with an immense arsenal. Eggs, flour, shaving foam, stink bombs, water bombs, S**t in a Can (TM), all bought from the cheap supermarkets and joke shop. They also buy themselves a scope uniform in the shape of fake beards and moustaches, bowler hats covered in glitter, £1 shades, and rubber gloves

On the night of the raid the offer was made to Nathan if he would like to join in with the plan. As he was immensely bored too he agreed. As he had no uniform he simply wore his pyjama shorts on his head. During one of their planning sessions they started to give each other Scope names for the crack. Paul was named Water Vole, Lee was named Rather Large Badger, Scott became Wildebeest and Nathan was given the title of Baboon. The 4 Skin's had already been named but their name had to be approved by Mark. Mark was Wolverine and he named Christian Hawk and James Barn Owl. Richard named himself Cobra.

They planned through the night of how to sneak out of their building across the campus and then find a way into the other building without alerting any staff who had already told them that in no way were they allowing a raid. The Scopes, however, went ahead with the plan at around 4:00am and found themselves in the corridor of the girls dorms standing ready to go "1..2...3!!!". All hell broke lose as a barrage of flour, eggs and water is sent into various rooms by all the Scopes. A putrid smell drifted down the corridor as 6 stink bombs are let off. Panic ensues as screams ring out through the building, the scopes have to turn to the use of their shaving foam cannons they have created as they are running out of supplies. Some girls attempted a fight back but were quickly overwhelmed by the barrage of substances they encountered. Finally, having used up all their supplies, the Scopes speedily retreated back to HQ with all the professionalism and organisation they showed all the way through. The attack could have lasted no more than 2 minutes

The Scopes didn't have to wait long before they were summoned, only minutes after they got back, to examine and clean the mess they had left. Upon inspection the Scopes were speechless in a moment of shock, guilt, and suprise. The damage was catastrophic and the smell unbearable. Needless to say the women were less than impressed with the state of their rooms but what mattered to the Scopes most was that in the long history of raids they had experienced in their many years, by pranksters such as T Farmer, S Frost, R Kendrick etc, this was by far the biggest and the best. It almost made the task of cleaning it all up, all through the rest of the night for 6 hrs or so, bearable. They had become legends and the kept their Scope titles.

Not long after, while Mark was staying at Richard's house they both proceeded to write an e-mail to Lee Fisher of Rather Large Badger's Life Story (with pictures). This was basically almost word for word what exists on RLB's Biography Page today. Having amused everyone who read it, the Scopes started to e-mail each other little scope stories where they would be attacked by Austin in search for the true identity of King Scope. Using these ideas and combining with them the plots for Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda, Richard published his first website and the Online Community. Months after, due to the technical limitations of the content he was allowed on it, he soon set up this, much better, site based on the story from the first site and RLB's story he had recently re-found.

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