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.
I haven’t gotten that far with Chip. I don’t know if I ever will. He does sleep in my office chair, and that’s a step up, but that may end when his donut bed comes. I’ll put it under the desk so he won’t feel he has to move out of it, as he has done every other place he’s “found.” When I get something for him, I usually spray it with cat pheromones so he knows it’s his. Expensive stuff, but it is well worth it!
I still talk to him but I don’t think he recognizes my voice since it’s now almost a whisper, thanks to BP meds. I’ll see an ENT soon and maybe that will change. I’ve had him nine months and he was making very good progress until I went to Colorado for four days in August, to visit my daughter and my Real Brother. When I got back, he suddenly didn’t know me.
Poor baby.
Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
Window and cold today. Gauge says 11... but the wind says -1...
That’s a little bit chilly for my taste. I don’t have anything that would be quite warm enough to withstand a Minnesota winter!
The British do the best murders!
Back from a wedding for one of the choir members. It all went great except the last song, which Gigi and I had just (thought we) learned this morning, but we started off wrong and didn’t ever hit the melody. Fortunately, they were out the door before we had to totally give up on it.
Sorry about your last song. It probably would have been embarrassing if they hadn’t left before it was over!
The afternoon was quiet, except for several texts from Linda. Also, the trash finally got taken out. I had to put it on my little collapsible cart, but I find that I use it more and more as days go by and I hope it lasts as long as I do!
But I had several bags to go out. Normally I have one, sometimes I have two, and even rarer, I have three. This time it was three, but I managed to compact it down to two. It was fairly mild, then got cloudy, so I know what’s coming — more of the same.
So of course, it’s now time to fix food for Chip and Chip’s servant, so I’ll see you in the morning.
I hope you have a good night!
Tom and Vlad went to the mall. Tom stayed for dinner, James just got home from work. We’re going to play a game after DP takes a shower.
5 years and I'm heading South again. Probably the Carolina's... Find a nice place with a large garage on a brackish river that I can part a sea-worthy catamaran on and just go...
Spend my Winters in the Carolina's with my Marines and my Summers in the Caribbean drinking rum and eating shrimp...
Idiot... Park. Catamaran...
In my defense... alcohol is involved.
Ice fog, visibility about 150 yards.
That sounds absolutely ideal!
I hope it’s a dream that comes true for you.
Good thing we’re smart here on FR! We know what you mean when you say things like that.
That’s sweet!
Good morning. I hope you had a good night and that the fun and games didn’t make you too tired — just tired enough.
Nightmares again last night. This time, I was fighting off someone who had bandages on his face so I have no clue what he looked like. I woke up breathing hard after the exertion.
I hope there isn’t a third night of it.
Chip didn’t touch his food last night. I hope he’s not headed for another relapse.
Good morning. Not bad, thanks. Had a nice evening, in bed at 9:30. Tomorrow I’ll have my alarm on and get up promptly!
So will I! LOL! Wash day and all that!
I’m ready to head out, but I still have 25 minutes before it’s a must-do, so I can visit for a few.
I’ll be up promptly, as well, because it’s a “short” laundry day, in that I don’t have to dry the clothes this time. And the laundry is all sorted, so all I have to do is grab my bag with supplies and head out the door. The longest part of that is eating breakfast.
HUGE *yawn* *blink* *blink*
‘morning, I guess. December already?...
Indeed, it IS December!! Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas!
I hope you slept well.
There they are!
Fire on the up-roll!
November 5th:
Walks in to the A&E (ER) ,John Radcliffe UCH Oxford , waits for six minutes.
Escorted into another building.
Wired up, blood taken , pressures tested.
*concerned expression on doctor *
Doctor comes back with a small white pill.
“What’s this?”
“A small white pill,….back shortly “
Swallows pill.
Twenty minutes later: How are you feeling?
Um…human…just.
Wheeled up to another floor and experimented on for eight hours.
Full diagnostic carried out, nowt found except high hydraulic pressure.
Ejected from hospital at 08:00h with a prescription for more little white pills.
Hydraulic pressure is now no longer a danger to anyone within 60 feet.
The knucklehead wanted to go out at 1:00, I convinced him that Ratboy’s bed was warm, and he went there to wake him up for the 3 am reassurance.
I slept uninterrupted ‘til 5:30!
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