Medard, on his knees, batters the ground with his big fists in frustration.
"Mitch Claydon and Graham Onions provided a bit of light relief on the final morning for the 30 or so who turned up to witness it but, from a home perspective, this performance was as depressing as the winter weather which battered the ground over the four days".
Plans for entering the embassy by battering the front door and ground-floor windows were quickly scrapped and work began on other ideas.
First of all, an epic rainstorm battered the festival grounds all day, making it a pretty miserable experience.
Many miners were caught and battered to the ground with truncheons, then outnumbered by police on foot before being roughly handled as they were arrested.
I was aware that many of my fellow mineworkers had already been battered to the ground, where they were ferociously beaten by other officers on foot.
He was battered to the ground and stomped on by a succession of strangers – orthodox Jew, black lesbian, Arab taxi driver – in an attempt to provoke and film "every demographic" into beating him up.
The reception for two commandos descending from a helicopter was brutal – the first was battered to the ground and heavily beaten and the second, landing seconds later, was assaulted by a man with a bar and forced to retreat into a doorway before fighting back out.
Rebels seeking to advance toward the hometown of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi and open a new front against the capital were battered from the ground and air, forcing them to retreat along a vital stretch of Mediterranean coast.
Though unable to take Irun, they battered the town badly and gained ground around it in a six-hour battle costing heavy loss on both sides.
