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'm too sick for it to be mine, so I hope you take it as a gift from me!!
Good job!
I was going to lie down long about 0930 but changed my mind. I wish I would have gone ahead and taken that little nap, now.
I’ve been fighting with a sour stomach since then, and I can’t think of anything that will help clear it up that I haven’t already tried.
I hate when this happens.
Yours!
👍🏼
Peppermint tea? Cold and rainy here, off to Kathleen’s art class.
Nope... Cold snap next couple days. Single digit days and double digit negatives at night...
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
That ... might ... work!
We’re supposed to get freezing rain tonight followed by rain tomorrow. Some parts of the area will get snow before the freezing rain. I hope that’s not us.
A transfer and lift chair is supposed to arrive for M-I-L sometime today so I’ll be assembling that tonight. Then I’ll put salt on her driveway before coming home. I hope the chair doesn’t come late in the evening.
Wordle was good today. I don’t know what I would have gotten if it hadn’t been for that unforced error on line 2.
Wordle 1,334 3/6*
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
9 Fs this AM, Tyson didn’t dawdle...
All that I can say is: this too, shall pass...
Good Midweek Morning!
Waiting out the last big thunderstorm cell, hoping that it stays to our north... 🤞🏻 Then we should done with the rain until Saturday...
I suppose that we have been due for a good Wordle (based on what we use as starters)...
Wordle 1,334 3/6*
⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I’m glad to have broken my short “5” streak, anyway.
Happy Odin’s Day!
It’s cold and rainy here, 38Fs, but not expected to freeze. The neighbor on our north side is working on replacing the fence. He’s from England, so the weather is probably just what he expects.
Daybreak and the temp has dropped to 8Fs here.
Yuck.
Indeed! 👍🏻
Good Morning!
We are supposed to dip below freezing for about 4 hours early tomorrow morning.... some preps... but not all...
If I had some peppermint tea!
I was up all night with this thing, thing, but it was rough going.
Now, I have to clean up the mess that was made when then the kids were sick and I was the only cleaner in the ‘hood!
Don’t know yet if I’ve passed the summit (or Lowwit) but the mess still needs to be cleaned, and I’m the only one here to do it.
I’ll try to do it in stages.
Ugh , hopefully it has passed…
Thanks! So do I.
I think I’ll be a sofa spud for the rest of the day!
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