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’m sorry to hear that… please let her know that 🙏🏼 continue for a restoration of health….
nice people don’t hijack threads and mislead people into reading a soap opera...
We always ask permission.
I will. I also send baby pictures.
it’s misleading... and a possible turnoff to people scrolling through free republic seeking the truth...
The original article is still there, and it is as true as it ever was. I think it’s been at least 5 years since anyone gave a hoot about the Undead Thread and its tiny enclave of Wordle, weather, and cat pictures. Takes effort to get worked up about us.
It’s St. Paddy’s day, cut a guy posting totally plastered some slack...
Oh, that never occurred to me.
“Orange Cat Crimes”
Elen has orange cats. I hear they’re kind of a nuisance. One of them likes to sit up like a primate and (used to be a) man-spread. It’s very tacky.
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Must not have had a ticket... Catnip addition is continuing to ruin lives...
Eh... I am on too erratically these days to carry on much in the way of conversation much less thingthing like Worlde Golf.
I do enjoy reading the descriptions you fine folks come up with though... Play on...
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Now, please feel free to pull up a chair, pour cup of coffee or tea, and relax.
Now, you are being rude.
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Good Morning!
Looks like today is the last day of the nuisance level winds for the 10 day foreguess period...
Decent Wordle outing for today...
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Just post your Wordle result in the thread as usual and I will pick them up and update the spreadsheet...
Good question. Should we not do that?
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