Posted on 11/26/2024 11:19:27 AM PST by Red Badger
No matter what students bring to future "show and tells" at Orchard Junior School in the Southampton area of England, they will never be able to top this year's spectacle that shut down and evacuated the school.
One bonkers little tyke brought in a bit of vintage "unexploded ordinance" to show his mates.
The school quickly evacuated all the students, called the police, and texted the parents:
Schools are being closed & evacuated - please collect your child from Noadswood field ASAP.
Imagine getting that little note in the middle of the school day.
Laura Holloway, a mother of one of the students was at work at the time. She said,
It was so worrying. Another parent had called saying there were police everywhere. I knew my youngest would have been so scared.
But, she added:
Both schools seemed to deal with it all very well and had the kids lined up and checked off - it must have been very upsetting for everyone involved.
Once the students were out, the police showed up and sent in the bomb squad.
The police's full statement said: ‘We were called at about 1.30pm to a report that a child had brought what may have been a potentially unexploded ordnance to Orchard Junior School.
‘The school was calmly evacuated and a disposal team attended to take the item away to be destroyed as a precaution.'
Not an easy task by any means.
The real question everyone wants to know is "What kind of ‘historic incendiary device' are we talking about here?"
This is England after all. They've been blowing stuff up and getting blown up for centuries.
It could've been anything from a 16th-century mortar to a WWII hand grenade to that morning's beans on toast.
Broke my 4-streak...
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That sounds like a good test, probably can extrapolate from how that feels to warmer/colder temps...
Good Morning!
Well we made it through the “freeze” thus far... in a bit of a respite now (temps just above freezing all day and night) and have one more sub-freezing night tomorrow...
Looking like parts north of us will get a mess throughout the day and evening... hoping that we will just get some needed rain...
It was a tough Wordle outing for me, I am lucky that I didn’t make it any worse!
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BTW, I think that Morse is the best show of this type that I ever watched....
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As for Morse, yes, it's a very good show. I think Lewis, which is about his sergeant, is by the same writers or closely akin to them. No disappointments in either presentation!
Well that is good because we are on the last episode of Season 7, and plan to move right in to Lewis next...
We don't. The cats do.
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Woo Hoo!
Morning! I went to Walmart and then took Frank to the dentist.
Back from ENT. I did NOT like what he did, but he gave me three choices: 1. Time 2. Therapy and 3. not really surgery but something close. Depending on the cost of the therapy, I may try it, but my real option is time.
He said I’d be able to talk and maybe sing in the choir but I won’t ever be able to sing a solo which is good, because I never would, anyway!
So that’s done! For now.
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Doctor: Those hands are badly broken. They’ll take a while to heal.
Me: Will I be able to play the piano?
Doctor: Yes, with time, you surely will.
Me: That’s great. I was never able to before!
Great lines, but he wasn’t playing into it.
He asked me if I talked a lot, and I smiled and said I was always talking to the wisest person in the room.
It took him a while to recover.
But he said it’s my left vocal cord that is at fault, so I’m not sure what they’ll do about it.
He seems to think it wasn’t medication that caused it, but I can’t think of anything else whose onset would be so quick.
So can you talk out of the right side of your mouth?
😂 Excellent!
He followed me home, can I keep him?
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