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.
‘Face says she’ll be released from the hospital in the next hour or so.
‘Face has been in my prayers. Thank you for posting updates. 🙏
Yaaaaaay!!!!
👍🏼
You’re welcome.
Thanks for the update TC...
I’m sorry hear Monkey Face is in the hospital. Hugs and prayers!
Good morning! I’m home at last!
Annette picked me up, and we took a long way home, then, she stopped at Wendy’s and got me a burger and fries and we ate here.
Big mistake. I’m still paying for it.
This last week was a blur of tests to see how well they had cleaned up the infection from the last bunch of tests, and more of the same until they had gone rid of all three infections.
The reason I went back was because of an intestinal infection. That really laid me low, for sure. I was not a happy camper at all.
I had a south-facing window which was nice, but the sun was too bright, so I had to keep the shade pulled low.
Saturday there was a bunch of hot-air balloons coming up from the Virgin River bottoms, and I really like to see those. They’re so beautiful in flight.
I got a ton of new prescriptions but they can’t be delivered until tomorrow. They don’t deliver on Saturdays and they’re closed on Sundays. One is a foul-tasting drink that that I have to take for three days.
I’m tired, but not too much just yet. I just wish I’d get some strength in my legs.
Yippy!!!
If it wasn't foul-tasting, you wouldn't think it was medicine!
OTOH, if it was fowl-tasting you'd think turkey gravy...
its Britain after all…
Glad to see you on the thread and out of the hospital at least....
Will continue to pray for your recovery!
Here’s a picture of an usagi with an okonomiaki on it’s head. Your argument is invalid...
Thanks!
My legs are still wonky, but they’ll improve in time. I’m just glad to be here, where I belong!
My weeks will be busy with appointments for home health and physical therapy and housekeeping and such, but I’ll be here as much as I can.
Off for tonight!
That’s right.
I’m glad you’re back home!
NOTE: This is not Tax-chick's new cat. It is someone else's new cat.
Oh, I love her. She’s beautiful.
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