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.
Oddly enough, I get it! But I’m still wishing for snow on the mountain, at least!
Yes, I heard that they are getting quite a snow up there today…
I was wondering…. do you think letting a spoonful of Manuka honey dissolve in your mouth and run down your throat a couple of times a day would help that vocal cord?
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I always say that 27 is better than 17!
Manuka honey is excellent stuff! I’ll have to try that. It might do more good than anything going. Thanks!
There’s nothing like a beautiful falling snow that accumulates an inch or two an hour.
When I’m not out in it, or having to shovel after, of course.
Except in golf.
Don’t laugh. I golf like that.
A few flakes of snow are falling here, occasionally. I took a nap. You know how, when you’re out in the sunshine doing yardwork, 68 feels nice and warm, but when you’re in your house, it’s like freezing. What’s up with that?
It’s the sunshine that plays a trick on you. It wants you to stay outside and soak up some rays.
It’s still not very warm here, and even though the sun has been shining, its been hazy so it doesn’t even feel warm. The house is warm but only in comparison.
Yesterday, I called the pharmacy to see what prescriptions were due to be refilled, and the tech asked me which prescriptions they were that I was checking on. What? So I told her that’s what I was calling to find out and could she check for me please?
She named off two and started a third one, and I said, “No, I wasn’t taking that one any more, so which ones were due to be refilled, please?” Again, she named the one I said I wasn’t taking and tried to talk over me when I tried to tell her I wasn’t taking that one. ARGH!
She finally got it right, and I wondered off and on since then if they would be delivered OK, today. Yep, they were. I’ll have to call again on Monday, as the morphine is due, and I really hope she doesn’t answer the phone. I know she is in training, but she needs to learn how to read a computer before she’s turned loose on the phone bank! Poor girl. I can almost imagine what the rest of her day must have been like yesterday!
So difficult to get good employees.
Looks like a Tigger!
Good morning. I hope you slept well.
Did you get much snow? If any?
I had a hard time sleeping last night, and then I woke up at 0200 again and had a hard time going back to sleep. If I sleep like I want to one night, I can’t sleep the next one!
I was dreaming about airplanes again when I woke up.
Nothing much going on today. I was going to go help clean the chapel but after the lack of sleep, I think it’s best if I stay home. Otherwise, I won’t be able to go to church tomorrow.
It’s 23° out! Crikey! I don’t want to go out there! I’m afraid the battery in the Raisin is dying, but I’ll have to take it down to Casey and have them check it for me. He still has to put antifreeze in, but can’t do it unless the engine is cool. So I’ll have to pick a day when nothing is going on so I can just sit there for an hour.
We had just a dusting of snow, and then the icy rain. It’s supposed to be 40 today, so almost everything will melt.
Show kittah on ice ….. after a quad.
I saw that icy rain on the weather map and thought I sure wouldn’t want to be out in that! I’m glad it will mostly melt today.
What’s bad is when the cold snap lasts for a week after the icy rain. Or snows again. Or both. We had that in MO. Three months of ice storms and snow. Our first power bill in our new home was $600 and that was in the late 70’s! No siding on our mobile home. Just snow drifts. GAH!
Did you get snow where you are?
Yes, I remember other events that were a lot worse, even around here.
about 1/10 inch at our local. Is that a picture outside You’All’s home of kittah doing a quad?
Sometimes, the weather foreguessers get a feeling of power from telling folks how bad a storm will be, then waiting for reports to come in about people making a run on perishables. I figure if you’re always prepared, you don’t have to worry about what the foreguessers say.
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