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.
I saw that! You’re colder than we are, and I don’t envy you. But I’m consoled by the fact that AR is colder still. There are probably lots of pipes bursting there.
I killed the undead thread.
How could you, ArGee???
It’s non-killable!
Folks just stepped out for a few minutes and forgot to come back is all. I usually kill it on weekends.
Of course, my reason for being on here now is purely personal; I got lonely, which almost never happens.
So I’ll see you on Friday! Tomorrow. The day after today. I hope you had a good night! (Thursday night!)
And BTW: I love that C&H comic! Classic!
Good morning. Happy Friday!
It’s slightly warmer (again) but still cold. Sunday it’s supposed to get up into the 30s.
It looks like M-I-L had another quiet night. She was doing some talking to her caregiver when I went over in the evening.
Wordle was back to normal today.
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Almost Chip-looking.
Good morning. I hope you had a good night.
Nothing doing today, except lists, so I could start on them first thing this morning.
It’s 18°! It was supposed to be warmer today, so wassupwithat?
Good Friday Morning!
Let the moderating temperatures spread far and wide! I know that we don’t get nearly as cold as most of you do, but keeping livestock healthy and happy in sub-freezing conditions in a place that isn’t really setup for sub-freezing conditions amounts to a lot of extra work everyday... I welcome a return to ‘normal’ temps!
Par for the course on the Wordle front today...
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TGIF and stuff... Long weekend for me. Was supposed to have all week off, but there is a network training course I wanted ot take... for Mon and Tues off... all day class Wed-Fri.
To Comp... I’m taking another full week off in February... Go figure.
Anywho...
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Looks like you and Z had much more of a “steady progress” thing going than I did.
Different methods for arriving at the same destination.
Whatever works... :-)
I awoke last night around 3 am to a ghostly apparition, about 2½ maybe 3’ tall, staring at me from near the foot of my bed.
I remember that one. Don’t shoot!!!!
Nah. Just Tyson, sitting showing his white belly and chest, white stockings on all four legs, white throat, white chin and muzzle, as viewed in the dimness of the nightlight...
Not bad, thanks. Back from singing for a funeral. I did not know the late gentleman, who was from Colombia, but he was a friend of one of my choir members.
Next thing will be studying soil with Frank and Kathleen, whether they like it or not.
We have to support our friends. I mean, that’s what friends are for.
I hope Kathleen and Frank enjoy what you’re doing for them!
I didn’t mean for it to sound as if were ignoring you. I got up not feeling well, and went back to bed shortly after that.
My apologies.
We use to tell a story when we were kids about a man who saw an apparition at the foot of his bed. It looked like some kind of head with two glowing eyes. So he shot it right in the eye. Turned out it was his feet sticking out from under the covers and he blew his right big toe off.
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