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.
She texted earlier and said recovering from surgery is no fun, but she’s already feeling better than she did last week.
On a new client site today... dropped down to 22 over night... so took the truck today.
On a new client site DT Minneapolis. Nice folks, but I hate coming in to the Twin Cities. It’s depressing.
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I’m so glad she’s feeling better.
Nice Wordle.
I haven’t been to the twin cities in a long while. Has it been going downhill? Or have you just been learning to appreciate rural life?
Possibly both... Was kind of dismayed at all the boarded up store fronts and the massive amount of trash lying in the gutters. I mean, we’ve always had some of that... but this? It’s like we are trying to keep up with California...
Thanks, that’s good to hear!
Is it a long trek?
70 miles round trip to the Minneapolis office from my home office.
Thursday... I treck down to Rochester... That’s a 230 mile round trip.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
I’m wending my way to NYC today for a big meeting of the IT department. It’s been a while. There are many people I work with that I’ve never met. Maybe there will be time to meet some of them.
Hopefully everything will go well with The Princess and M-I-L.
I was hoping to be able to avoid taking a coat, but it cooled off more than expected last night. Still, most of the snow is gone. I was a bit surprised at how fast it went. Spring has actually sprung here.
I had a normal Wordle outing.
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Minneapolis is not too bad then, but Rochester, that’s a hike!
Good morning. I think it’s Wednesday here, but I don’t want to commit.
Good Midweek Morning!
Not much to note weatherwise... a bit on the warm side for the next few days...
Back to normal Wordle outing today...
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I hope that you are not heading in for a Monday meeting! 😂
27 degrees this AM. Mid-50’s on tap for later. Took the truck. Maybe if I had heated grips or gloves... I might have done it anyway... As is, I can ride later. :-)
Some possible fun today at this client site... They were purchased by a consortium and I may be installing a new server for them today... Since the new owners didn’t consult with me or my company on this... It could be hillarious.
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Stories with “…and hilarity ensued!” are usually classics!
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Apparently I’m in the right place at the right time.
FedEx freight has been saying “out for delivery” since around 9AM CST... It’s just past Noon...
Bummer.
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