Boy One and his friends delighted in our method of snailicide: partly because we paid well (five cents per snail) but also because they got to stay up late to get the job done.

Paddled students tend to say that it hurts like crazy at the time, but that the pain often does not last very long. There may be yelps and tears and red faces, as attested by numerous anecdotal eyewitness and first-person accounts.

Those claims are patent nonsense.

This inherent source of error can be minimised if current transducers are fitted to the shedable loads.