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.
Neither can James.
Yes, it was..
Good morning. Happy Friday!
Kitteh reminds me of the old Gallagher question: “Why did God make flying squirrels? So they could swoop down on unsuspecting acorns?”
It did, indeed, get colder yesterday. Someone must have said something to the property managers about a lawsuit if the water froze. Yesterday they were creating a trench through the snow to try to get the water off the sidewalk near me that I had said was impassable. This morning they were putting a lot of salt on the ice that still formed.
M-I-L is still hanging in there. She’s apparently “out of it” a lot, but when she’s in it, she’s in it.
My Wordle was “meh” today.
Wordle 1,357 4/6*
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Good Friday Morning!
Aside from the flying cat, they’ve got some weird wiring and string stuff going on there...
After a couple of days of super dry (West Texas style) air, it looks like our regular humidity levels are returning...
Took a stab at one for row two that I think will eventually come up... or maybe not...
Wordle 1,357 3/6*
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Warmer weather on tap for the weekend and starting off next week. Will do some more basic bike maintenance this weekend. Oil charges, air filter, and tire pressure... oh my...
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There is a correlation between cat pictures and unsafe-looking housing.
Hmm...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
I’m no Phaedrus as I have yet to have my mental breakdown. Although, I probably am due for one.
If I start talking about my good friend Herodotus... You’ll know I’ve gone round the bend.
I’ve had a mental breakdown scheduled several times over the last 10 years, but I keep having to postpone it.
I hear there’s some good stuff around that bend.
Are those baby goats with a kitty in the middle?
That’s adorable! I would love to have a goat, or goats. I’ve seen that there are miniature goats.
I think goats are really cute, too. We’re not allowed to have farm animals in our subdivision.
The Hardest Tongue Twister in English
You might be surprised to learn that this short phrase won the title for the most difficult tongue twister in the world:
“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.”
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