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.
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I’m post 623 and Face showed up a couple of posts later on that thread.
Good times.
That’s beautiful. ♥️
Awwww…I love that you were able to find ‘Face’s first post to you. She really was a sweet lady.
You read Reader’s Digest too huh?
I will be sure to do that.
I hope poor Chip finds someone to love him like ‘Face did. She so patiently waited for him to get used to life outside the shelter. She said “All he needs is love and patience and I can give him that.” 😢
The Crysalis
Page one-twelve in my poetry book, but I picked it for the occasion.
I likely posted it near its recorded date, Sept 18, 2019.
I was just looking back in Undead Thread history, (See my records page, but I probably put it on Amy’s Page.)
I wanted to see if ‘face had responded to it, but it doesn’t seem likely.
If anyone else wants to go back in time to find first or last events regarding the Undead Thread,my records page has a pretty good temporal road map.
I used to pour through all the jokes in my grandfather’s collection. But I first heard ghoti in High School. I think it was right after they wired our town for that new electric lighting.
Well you can always talk about the lie of your ball and clubs...
Wonderful description!
I am already 2 over heading to the third hole...
Thanks for the link to the course description, I will try to do better... both on the descriptions and the Wordle solving!
Thanks for sharing that bit of history!
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This is the earliest to me I can find:
Magnitude 6.2 earthquake - FIJI REGION
09/07/2010 3:13:35 PM PDT · 16 of 22
Monkey Face to null and void
Where in the heck did you take that from???
ROTFLMBO!
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So sorry to hear this. RIP, ‘face.
Yes, I hope so, too.
Face palm here.
Good morning. It’s Friday!
One of the caregivers is talking about having an interview with a better job that’s closer to her home. I guess the drama never ends here.
People keep telling me that every day is a gift. But we can’t actually enjoy M-I-L’s company and we don’t see that she is actually enjoying life. I’m not sure this is a gift. And it’s not as if I’m excelling at encouraging Mrs. ArGee.
I hope I don’t outlive my life this much.
And then there’s today’s Wordle. I managed to fish my putter out of the water where I threw it, but I’m obviously going to spend the weekend working on my short game. I was so excited after the drives brought me onto the green so quickly and then ... pffffffft!
I guess I’ll also work on my temper this weekend.
Wordle 1,371 6/6*
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Good Morning!
I’ve seen them!
You’ve seen cats sitting on sheep? Wow.
I went to the dermatologist. She said nothing untoward is growing on my skin, come back in a year.
The youth have disappeared.
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