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’s at rest and no longer in pain.
I can take some comfort in that truth...
Thanks Jim, today is not the day for this kind of disruption...
Rest in Peace, FRiend...
Thank you!
you’re welcome...
"She’d been sick recently.
I thought she’d been doing better but I have been busy elsewhere in recent months."
So I have been on lurk mode in the UT."
It would really suck to have to make a ZoT Ping in here now.
i triple dog dare you...
Well said.
May God comfort Face’s Family and Friends. My heart grieves. Face was a FRiend and a Friend. May Face Rest In Peace. May God grant everyone peace who had the pleasure to know her. In Jesus name I pray. Amen Amen.
Good morning. I totally agree!
Please accept my sincerest apologies for tricking you.
I’m not sure we tricked you into going 2,000 posts in once you figured out we weren’t really talking about unexploded ordinance in school any more. But I’ll (only speaking for myself) stop replying to your posts so you won’t be pinged here any more.
RIP, ‘Face.
We will miss you, until that day.
I’ll have to ask permission from her family first. I’m waiting for it to be really daytime in the relevant time zone before I ask for more information.
I’m sure they’re overwhelmed. My mother died at the beginning of February, and my daughter and I had to clean out her apartment in three days. It’s a blur.
Good morning. This is a very unhappy Humph Day.
I’m pretty sure it was ‘Face who first pointed me to the UT back in the early 10s. It’s changed over the years, but she remained constant.
For a while it seemed I could mark the rhythm of the UT by where ‘Face was in a move, happy to finally be there, unpacked, noticing some of the downsides of the place, looking for a new place, packing, then moving. There was a point I might have suggested she stop looking for the perfect place and just learn to be happy where she was. But now she has found that perfect place. As I’m sure happened everywhere she lived, the residents will miss her now that she’s moved on.
I hope you’re exceedingly happy in your new home, ‘Face. In face, I’m sure you are.
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