>>11654012Sociologist was interested to find out the outcome of a real-life Lord Of The Flies scenario and trawled news archives for one, found a case of six boarding school kids from Tonga who stole a boat thinking they could travel hundreds of miles to another island on their own, they got shipwrecked by a storm almost immediately and were lost on a tiny uninhabited islet for 15 months before being discovered by an accountant on a vanity lobster-catching jaunt. They'd constructed everything from a garden to a badminton court whilst living off of seagull blood and shit and sparse rainwater they caught in hollowed-out tree trunks; one of them broke a leg in a fall but they splinted it perfectly and it healed fine, and they imposed a strict time-out system to avoid any arguments escalating. They were all 13-16 at the time. Upon their return they were immediately jailed for stealing the boat because the pissy fisherman still wanted to press charges. When they got out the accountant who saved them funded a TV special about the story and hired them as his ship's crew.
