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.
Sounds like a good plan!
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Look! Someone scattered a litter on the stairs!
Happy Friday Eve, she sez!
I hope you had a good night!
The night was gloriously uneventful. Now I have to work at getting my back muscles strengthened so I can work on my leg exercises.
Not a bad night. Cold, though.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
We had some snow and some freezing stuff last night. The salt I put on M-I-L’s driveway appeared to have done its job. I drove over at about 4am to see if I needed to shovel. I would have needed to here, but I did not need to there. So I came back and got back into bed to lie awake until my normal 0530 start.
I managed to get the ice off Mrs. ArGee’s car pretty easily so she can go food shopping later. Hopefully what falls now won’t be cold enough to be a problem for her. It’s supposed to warm to above freezing today.
The Wordle word was tough today, but I managed a 4. When I guessed the 4th word I wasn’t sure it was going to be one. But it was. I’ll have to look it up later.
Wordle 1,335 4/6*
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Ping to #1722. For a Friend.
28°, 2-3” of white stuff.
Good Morning!
After reading about the low temps and all the work involved from folks North, I don’t think that I will complain as much about turning off water and removing hoses for the overnight.... but if it gets cold enough again this season to have to chop ice out of stock tanks and carry 5 gallon buckets of warm water out there all day, then I reserve the right to bitch about it... 😂
Got lucky on a hunch this morning...
Wordle 1,335 3/6*
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30°, “wintry mix” on the way for this morning, rain by this afternoon. Maybe Pine Valley Mountain will be cold enough to keep the snow for a few days!
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It’s a little better here. It’s raining, but not quite warm enough for the roads to be safe.
Now it looks like 4-5” and it’s still coming down.
Maybe I’ll try out the snow tires today...
It’s still cold here, but not raining right now. That’s something!
Sounds like a plan.
We had the ice starting to melt but now it’s lightly snowing. The temp is up to 33fs.
Oh, and Mrs. ArGee made it safely to the store and back. She said the store was very empty.
The “snow” dusted Pine Valley Mountain, but I doubt it will stick.
Not sure what the rain will look like, if this is the snow...maybe like virga — the rain that never makes it to the ground.
I’ll try to stay up a while longer, but may not make it. I’m exhausted.
Physical therapy called just before she got here, and when I told the guy I was still trying to recover, he said he had the same thing two weeks ago. Unngh...
Funny how many people get intimidated by wet and/or slick pavement. My philosophy is, I learned to drive on snow and 4” won’t stop me from going to Walmart (in the BB SUV!)
I grew up north of here about 300 miles, so it was learn to drive on it or stay home. That was actually no choice!
1PM and it has warmed up to 3 degrees... Yay...
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Yay!
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A degree here, a degree there, pretty soon you’re talking real heat!
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