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 Monday! Happy President’s Day!
I’m actually off of owrk today, but I’m sitting at a car dealership for a recall so I’ll get some owrk done while here, and some FReeping.
We had a lot of snow and ice over the weekend. Apparently there’s a nation wide shortage of snow melt. Our apartment complex hasn’t been able to keep up with the ice. I also couldn’t do as much as I’d have liked with M-I-L’s driveway. I’ll probably have to spend some time with the ice chipper this afternoon. The city streets weren’t great getting in here, either. And it’s going to be a while before temperatures get above freezing.
What was the problem with global warming, again?
I need to get my library card renewed. It expired at the end of January. I’ll take care of that on the way home today.
I had a pretty good Wordle today. With the letters I had there weren’t many options that hadn’t already been guessed.
Wordle 1,339 2/6*
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Good Monday Morning!
Chilly weekend, past couple overnights just dipped below freezing, then a one day warmup and then we start getting our version of the big freeze starting on Tuesday night into Wednesday...
Today my patience was rewarded.... now time to figure out a new starter word...
Wordle 1,339 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Congratulations!
Thanks!
I’ll be shocked if my opening word is ever the one, it’s pretty obscure.
Impressive!
Good morning. It’s Monday here, too.
I’ve wondered about the size of their list of 5 letter English words... in making guesses I’ve come across a lot of words that I didn’t think were actually a valid words... some very obscure...
Thanks, it eventually comes if one is patient!
And then it goes, leaving only dirty dishes in the sink.
Was -16 when I woke up this AM. A bit after 1 in the afternoon and we’re up to -6...
Wordle 1,339 3/6
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😂
Good grief man, I hope that you don’t have to spend a lot of time outside!
Nope... I want to though... It’s just too flippin’ cold to be enjoyable....
Howya, DC! Happy Upnorth winter, eh?
Well done. It can be hard to wait sometimes.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
The storm has come and gone but there’s a lot of ice that hasn’t been removed. It looks like it’s going to be a while. Our parking area is a mess. The street that M-I-L lives on is a mess. However, M-I-L’s driveway is cleared because I spent a few hours yesterday clearing it. Fortunately, F-I-L had invested in an ice scraper for his driveway. It worked like a champ.
We will have frigid temps for the rest of the week and weekend. Then there will be flooded areas when the snow starts to melt. But, that’s upnorth weather.
Wordling was decent this morning.
Wordle 1,340 3/6*
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Congrats on such an historic post.
I think that after this week, the rest of Feb into March we should all be a lot warmer.... 🤞🏻
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