Two Teens Stuck In Mud
The Story:
In the early hours of the evening this summer, a few youths decided to take advantage of the heat and take a trip down to the local lake grounds of Portishead. Although the park was created for little children and families, the juveniles didn't go to play on the swings and slide, they wanted to get up to mischief, hangout and drink alcoholic beverages. As it began to get later and the amount of alcohol decreased, the teens thought that it would be a fun idea to take a giddy walk along the stony beach.
A group of five clumped together, falling and laughing as they stumbled towards the beach stairs. Wanting just to make a small fire and sit around it, three of them stayed. Whilst two of the boys decided to play a game of manhood and ran towards the sea, ignoring all urgent signs, which they would have acknowledged if sober. Expecting the beach to be full of sand and sea the two fell straight into the thick mud. By the time they had hit the mud, their drunken bodies where too numb to realise that the stiff muck had locked around their thighs. Suddenly one felt that they where getting dragged behind and that it was rising to their stomachs. Now, not being able to move their intoxicated minds realised what they had gotten themselves into and they began to panic.
The rest of the group where evoked when they finally heard the slurred yells from the dark and started to walk towards the voices. At first they did not know that it was their two lost members until they shouted their names and that they where stuck. The two boys could feel themselves getting pulled slowly by the mud, although it would be best not to be distressed they became to struggle. It wasn't long after 11pm when the three others alerted the police as the two male teenagers called out in the darkness. Although the shouts where unclear it was obvious that they were afraid and unable to get back to safety, as a large crowd of other teens gathered.
P.C Knowland was the officer which answered the call at 11:10pm from a nervous sixteen year old girl, claiming that two of her friends had gone into the mud on Portishead sea front. The group of three stayed waiting for P.C Knowland to arrive with other members of the team. At 11:15pm, P.C Knowland started to interrogate the youths on how this incident happened. This is when it first came apparent that alcohol had been consumed, as they weren't easily understood and their explanations of what had happened so far where not clear.
The other police officer gave her attention to the two boys in the mud. She asked them a series of questions, including their names, who to contact and skimming how they got there. It was obvious to the female police officer that the boys where frightened and intoxicated, this is when she first thought it would probably be the best idea to get reinforcements to try to get the boys out and to safety. The police decided to call in the local fire brigade. Although there was not a lot of equipment used to detach the teens from the mud, the fire-fighters where able to drag the boys from the thick mess by simply using man strength and the hose from the fire truck. Once out of the death trap covered in mud, still slightly intoxicated and in shock the boys returned to their friends and family on the sea wall and hosed off.
Soon after reading other newspapers I found that the start begins with the end. In my newspaper story I have written it more in a novel structure, as though I am writing a story rather then telling important news. In my next media lesson I will have to change around the layout of my story so it sounds more like a newspaper rather then a novel.
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