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 may get it later. I got nothin’ now.
Frank deposited some money in his account.
It was one of those tough 2-5 setups….
40 degrees... but windy as all get out... Wearing an overcoat might turn me into an impromptu kite...
Almost missed this one too...
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Gah... I could have done an Orwell post and I blew it...
Yes, and the particular combination of letters that were right in 2 and 5 got me. But, again, I tried some really strange words.
Well, if Orwell had known he’d have probably named the book 2024, so you can use that one.
I think that’s actually me!
There were plenty of unused choices to burn through....
Now that you’ve said it, I’ll probably be shopping with my kids when this thread hits it...
Tiny, but fierce!
When they is that little, they is always fierce!
Good morning. I hope you had a good night. I slept better, but of course, it’s a week today that I was released, so it’s about time to get the hospital rhythms out of my system. Maybe tonight will be the night they’re gone for good.
FD woke me up again. It seems her favorite thing to do since she was a very short person. No change there!
I have to take Charlie’s letter over to the mail drop, but I really don’t want to. Annette is coming a little later to bring me some pasta salad, and Tracy is coming to get my laundry, and maybe one of them can take it. I hate to say it, but I trust Annette to do the job rather than Tracy. The latter seems rather flighty.
No plans on the docket today, since it is a stone, cold Do-nothing Saturday. I managed to get my dishes all put away after Trina washed them, but now I need someone to take the trash out again. I hate to ask anyone. Linda has been harboring a migraine since last Saturday, so she isn’t feeling well at all.
Now it’s time to take my pills and find something to forage on before I fall over.
Good afternoon. DP and I went to a tree research facility. Kathleen went hiking with friends. My brother stopped by for literally five minutes and left a literal bag of gold coins on the table.
I’m sorry your daughter woke you up.
Annette showed up with some rather bitter-tasting macaroni salad, but it was later than I expected. Still it was welcomed. She left long before Tracy got here!
I thought she would have still been here when Tracy showed up to get my laundry, and Tony, her husband, stripped the wire on one of the speakers of the stereo, so now, I have a stereo to listen to!! YAY!!!
So I need to feed Chip and then I’m on my way to bed. The clothes may be back tomorrow, early or late. But that’s OK. I’m hoping she doesn’t bring me any food!
Annette took Charlie’s letter over to the community room and dropped it in the outgoing mail, so he should have it by Monday.
I keep trying to drop hints to FD to let her know I don’t get up early any more, but I don’t know if it has sunk in or not.
It sounds as if you had a lot more fun than I did, and that’s good because I’m not having much fun at all!
The name of the series about the Narrow Boats is called “Canal Boat Diaries.”
I’ll see you in the morning.
I’m really sorry you’re feeling so bad. I hope you have a better night tonight.
That floor looks cool and healthy!
Good morning. I hope you had a good night.
I had a little better night than the night before, but it still wasn’t restful. Maybe tnight....
Gadzooks! March snuck up on me like a big dog!! PW has a birthday this month, and I have no idea what to get her. Maybe an Amazon gift card....
No effort in that...she can always add to it...
Good morning. Not bad. I think I was dreaming about playing nerd card games with the bros, but it might have filing documents or sorting Word files. Something in the organizing-and-sorting category.
It is March. I need to get presents for Anoreth and Sally in the next week or so.
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