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.
Won’t bore y’all with the California weather.
No fire nearby is the good news.
Ditto on the Wordle experience.
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That is a complication we don’t have in the South.
And you might want to mail something.
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
We got some colder weather with about 2” of snow last night. Fortunately, I didn’t have to get up at 3:45 in the morning to go shovel M-I-L’s driveway because B-I-L is there. So I got to sleep in a little.
We had a nice dinner with B-I-L last night. He leaves tomorrow morning.
I got a par in Wordle.
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Good Morning All!
Nice that BIL was able to shovel for you…. hopefully he enjoyed the visit…
Par for the course Wordle for me as well…
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Good Morning, have you heard further from ‘Face?
How is she doing?
Training day... Thursday and Friday as well. 9-5 CST. Hopefully, this will help clear that block I have and score me that next certification...
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Mrs. ArGee just went to her mother’s because her blood pressure is in the cellar and her oxygen is low. M-I-L hasn’t yet gotten out of bed today.
Does she have petechiae on her feet and legs?
I haven’t seen them, but I don’t examine her feet and legs. I can find out when Mrs. ArGee gets back.
There aught to be an ordinance!
Oh, dear. Best wishes to Mrs. ArGee and her mother.
I’m sorry to hear this, I know how difficult this period is… prayers for you and your family…. I am on my phone this week so posting is spotty and cumbersome…
Did the Wordle though… and pinging people is too difficult…. Sorry
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Still hoping for an update from/about ‘Face….
Good Morning!
Well, after watching his mother spend all day in bed, B-I-L decided to come over to talk more arrangements stuff with Mrs. ArGee before his trip home today (which he might have had to cancel). Right before heading over here he looked in on his mother. She was awake and responsive. She was hungry and got up to eat. Her blood pressure had doubled back into normal range. So, go figure. As of now, she’s back to normal. We’re wondering if she had another TIA and just took the day for her brain to recover.
I got B-I-L to the airport without incident. And it’s cold again.
But I had a good Wordle while waiting to head to the airport.
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Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Ping to 1439 for the update and Wordle score if you’re interested.
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