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.
The reminders don’t get old. :)
Thank you.
w00t!
Maybe the cold will help abate the fire-enhancing effect of the winds.
I spent yesterday checking in on X periodically... Caught a couple of speeches. Was watching for Left-wing melt downs as I find that hillarious.
Was impressed with how fast he went to work and what the President was able to accomplish in such a short time span.
A breath of fresh air after the last 4 years of miasma.
Ha, I was not paying attention and didn’t realize what the numbers were…
I think that the air warms up as it gets pushed through the valleys of the Rockies and on through the Sierras….
I'm smack dab between the two and I can tell you, it does NOT warm up!! Maybe in summer, it might but definitely not in the winter.
I’m sure that you are right, but I don’t think that the temperature of the air when it is in that area makes too much of a difference... the 5% relative humidity and the 70 - 90 mph gusts is what is doing the damage.... unfortunately....
And there is an essay somewhere about how “Hurricane” got its name!
We have prevailing winds from the northeast, right out of Zion National Park, so on days when there is no wind, we sort of swelter in the summer because we’re used to a cooling breeze. In the winter, if there is no wind, we bask in the sunshine. If we have it.
But it’s a High Desert, so it takes getting used to!
No thanks necessary! You’d do the same for me, I’m sure!
I am sure that it does take some getting used to it!
Thanks, it was a real surprise !
It usually is a surprise for some of us! Others are able to snag them with some regularity, but some are gotten by design. And then there are the drive-by hits by someone who isn’t even a denizen of the Flying Castle! As the Brits say, “Cheeky!”
Happy noon to you! The guessers say it’s 27 now. We’re home from Envirothon and don’t have to go anywhere else. I sent Vlad to the library this morning while Frank and Kathleen and I were out. He doesn’t have school today because they close for two days when there’s a Monday holiday, presumably so teachers who don’t work on Monday also get an official day off.
James is supposed to work tonight. The administrator will text him if whoever it is decides not to meet at the town hall tonight.
When I was young and the Scouts still had Boy and Girl variants I was taught you need 3 things to create and maintain a fire: oxygen, fuel, and heat. That’s why we taught the byos to bank their small tinder fires to protect the heat generated to get the fire going.
I can’t imagine cold winds don’t help, at least somewhat.
It’s 37 here, but the wind is up so it’s a little colder — like maybe 34°.
I was able to take the trash out, but I wish I had taken my cane. The walk back was very slow and labored. The legs were the first to complain, then my lungs. But that’s OK. I’ll take the cane the next time, no matter how I feel when I’m heading for the door! If nothing else, I can just stand still for a minute and lean on the cane.
Well, I guess having a day off besides the holiday is a good thing. We just got Holiday OT. That was a big help!
Do the groups cancel often? I’m sure there will be a lot of absentees if the weather stays bad.
I think there is a statue of limitations on ordinance. :)
Lol!
LOL!! Those are names lots of people have chosen!
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