Only 20 lbs?
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.
Thank you, Girl!! I’m so glad to be here among my FRiends!
Felt like I’d been sitting on my ever expanding backside all Winter. Felt good to be up and about.
It’s just me here though...
*hits ball. looks under chair to find ball. hits ball again. retrieves ball from behind plant. hits ball...*
Ahhh…. I guess if it is one with the hinge in the middle you could fold it up and play against yourself!
Hello. I hope you’re getting through the day okay. Busy here. Busy tomorrow, too.
Goes over the top of my pool table... I suppose I could try to rig a back-board... but I practice far more billiards than I would ever practice ping-pong...
I felt the same until my two-week hiatus where I was on my back.
I’d love to be up and about.
The only “dependable” person around here doesn’t want to be. So there is that.
I’m muddling through, trying to stay up a while long to keep from having another rough night.
I don’t think Chip’s litter was changed either time I was gone so if I do nothing else tomorrow, I have to try and get that done. How can you take care of a cat without actually taking care of a cat?
Beyond me.
For me, I tried a new blood pressure med... It made me damn near narcoleptic and I put on almost 20 lbs...
Been off it and back on my old med 4 days and I already feel better... Just waiting for that bronchial cough to come back now... It was annoying, but at least I was awake.
I used to have to remind teenbros to clean the cat box. You’d think they would notice.
Only 20 lbs?
Good morning. Happy Twosday.
Road Trip!!!
Temps did get into the low 40s yesterday and some of the snow melted off. But there’s a lot more to go. The Princess is now breaking through more of the areas she used to like to walk on (dragging me over so I would break through). We’ll get into the low 40s again today but there’s some precipitation in the foreguess.
M-I-L is doing well. Mrs. ArGee is now dealing with caregivers who “have a surprise something-or-other” and need to miss a shift. They don’t ask, they just announce that they won’t be here. It makes it fun.
Very ordinary Wordle day today.
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Makes sense...
Good Morning!
Good to hear that everyone is getting a bit more Spring-like conditions in their area... it is certainly welcome here...
Very tough Wordle day for me... just couldn’t get the ‘feel’ for it until it was almost too late!
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Welcome back to occasional verticality, ‘face.
I’m not sure about belonging here, but I have to admit, it’s comfy.
DC, at least you can play the billiards by yourself, but I’d love to join you.
Hang in there, folks!
Starting to wonder if maybe that lottery ticket should be an actual thing...
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This might be a good week to try.
Mine?
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