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.
Good morning. Happy Friday!
The Princess doesn’t understand why people who walk on two legs get so nervous when there’s ice on the ground. But we made it through the morning walk without any disaster. I’m not sure what’s going to happen to all that ice. It will only get up to 29fs, according to the professional guessers, but it’s supposed to be very sunny. It could be very interesting.
I squeaked by the Wordle today.
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Good morning. I hope you have a successful weekend!
A trio of Mackerel Tabbies!
Good Friday Morning!
Not sure of your latitude so I don’t know if the sun will be strong enough to melt it at the forecast temps... be interesting to see, as you say...
On the 10 day foreguess, it looks like a roller coaster ride for us, that will keep me hopping with various levels of freeze preps required.... hoping that this is the last spell for the season.... 🤞🏻
Very lucky guess on row 4 saved me today...
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We don’t have freezing today. They say we will next week.
Thank you.
I’m sure it will be successful by some measure or another. I may only be successful in removing snow from M-I-L’s driveway. But we’ll see.
Guesses of the low for the upcoming 7 days:
Today - 9
Sat - 20
Sun - 15
Mon - 4
Tue 1
Wed 5
Thu 13
Somebody should have shot Phil when they had the chance.
The guessers were guessing very cold next week, but I see that it’s changing to someone less cold.
I think that most of us will next week!
Ouch!
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They lie.
They also said it would snow yesterday. They lied.
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I’ve seen them labeled as Ancient Tribal Weather Stones as well!
You see a lot of those on Scottish websites, sold as ancient Scottish weather forecaster.
Cute, but why would I spend on all that money for something my nose will tell me, anyway!
Sorry, I was out of town. Kitteh tomorrow!
I don’t post much, but my day is not complete without the kitteh.
Thank you. I’ll have it first thing in the a.m.
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