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. We had wind, too.
We need some unwind.
Unwind sounds good!
Happy Snowmagheddon Wednesday. I’m on a client site all day... but traffic is a mess and I really don’t want to be here today.
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Good morning.
I hope you had a better night than mine!
The medicine that was horrible when I drank it with juices isn’t too bad as it is. Still yukky, but drinkable.
I hope I can see some improvement, soon. Now, if I can just get some food down.
Not bad, thanks. I’m sorry you have nasty medicine! Please eat!
Well, hopefully the snow and traffic will let up before your trek back home….
The day will come when we don’t have to be where we don’t want to be.
But it is not this day.
Traffic is what it is. I get time to listen to audio books, so no worries there.
I am where I am being paid to be, so there is some consolation there. :-)
Indeed!
Translation, traffic isn't what it should be.
So... probably best to leave my mind out of it for now...
I think having a flying car would be a great idea. I think having to share the 3D space with some of the other driver’s I’ve shared the road with is a very, very bad idea.
Yes, I’ll walk.
That’s one way to give a cat a bath...
I wouldn’t have thought of it, but it would protect you from scratching and biting.
Precisely!
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Well, we had warm rain all day yesterday. The snow is melting down to the ice that was underneath, and that’s melting, too. It’s warm and rainy now, but it’s supposed to get down into the low 20s later. It will stay colder until next Monday.
Due to all the rain and melting stuff the pass north is closed to foot traffic. We’ll have to find a new route or drive to go the few hundred feet to the mailbox.
Decent Wordle outing today. I dont’ know if I could have gotten it in 2 without the unforced error.
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