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.
It sounds like you need a vacation. :)
Glad to hear about more progress!
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Good Monday!
Yup, I heard that you are going to be getting some more snow your way... no sun scheduled here until sometime on Wednesday... supposed to be getting some decent rain until then...
I took me quite a while to get today’s Wordle...
Wordle 1,332 4/6*
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Nice Wordle!
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It’s been a busy day and tomorrow will be another. Frank and Kathleen have presentations at Envirothon tomorrow, and neither one was nearly ready as of this morning. Gah. I can hear Frank doing a run-through in the other room.
I screwed up on the second line... But, it really limited options and I got lucky...
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
It’s cold again. At least there are some parts of some fields where the snow has been tramped down so The Princess could find a spot.
I had an unforced error in Wordle today or I *might* have gotten a 4. But I have a 5 streak going for now.
Wordle 1,333 5/6*
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Some days, that 5th letter of you opening word is very helpful!
I had a decent shot at a 3 today, but clearly picked the wrong option...
Wordle 1,333 4/6*
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Think that there were 3 possible unused options for that setup...
Don’t know where you’re finding these kitty pics, but they sure are cute!
Good morning! I hope you slept well.
The few times I awakened during the night, I had this awful feeling that I had to write to Charlie because it was Saturday. The print cleaning kit came yesterday, so there was no need for panic.
Now, if I can just read the tiny print....
I mostly didn’t eat, yesterday, at all.
Today, I think the PT guy is coming and his breath smells like garlic. He also follows me wherever I go, almost as stealthily as Chip does, so I’d just as soon use the printed instructions, rather than have him show me.
I’m waiting for noonish so I can call the pharmacy. I have some morphine in in reserve, but it’s only enough for a few weeks. The first gal I talked to yesterday made it sound like the emergency of the highest order.
So then, I called the pain clinic, and SHE called the pharmacy, and got someone who actually knew something! I hate when they don’t know what they’re talking about!
I could only think of 3, but if I’d missed on try 5 I would have had to think of a fourth.
-3 here at Noon...
Day 2 of vacation... I’ve already spent an hour working with one client an am now sitting in an hour long training session, where we are mostly talking about the Rift from yesterday...
Wordle 1,333 4/6
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You, Z and I all got the same pattern with the same missing letter.
Doesn’t sound like much of a vacation on any front… hopefully the rest of the week is better…. at least warmer!
"No whistlin' bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin' kitty chaser?"
I Can Has Cheezburger
Back from Envirothon. Outstanding success today, and now I need to lie down.
It was classic Wordle…. a setup with almost too many options…
Mine?
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