during my training there were many arab and north african students at the school. Whenever one of them passed a test or reached a milestone in their training they would all wait on the grass outside the terminal for said student to return from the aircraft. Said student would walk to the group and they would all pat him on the back etc, he would then place flying equipment some distance away and walk into the middle of his peers who proceeded to give him an almighty kicking! very very f
'ing strange.