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.
Happy April Fool’s. Be careful out there... :-)
It looks like my hook is back... Gotta remember to keep my head down and that arm straight. Went with a 3 wood for ok results. 7 iron to drop my on the green and an easy putt from there to close out the hole...
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Maybe you’re not doing an April Fools, but I think Mother Nature is.
We’re apparently a well matched set of duffers.
I made another change to Abby while I have the bags off... Last year, I put a new set of mufflers on her. “Hog Slayers” from British Customs. It came with a CAT delete kit to remove the catalytic convertor... Decided now was as good a time to pull the CAT off.
Polished everything up... put the exhaust back together... and fired her up. Hhmmm... I will probably garner a noise complaint at some point. Going to run it like this for a bit and see how I feel about riding it. Great back pressure “Brrrappp” out of the 1600 CC motor... but if I can’t hear my music in my helmet speakers, I’ll be putting the CAT back in...
Sometimes they come back.
Indeed we are!
If you find it too loud, any other way to lower volume without having to put the CAT back on?
I looked for a volume control on the side of the pipes, but these are apparently factory set to 11...
Might be able to put the original Triumph pipes back on, but keep the CAT delete... However, there is a significant weight difference to these as well.
Just get a bumper sticker that says:
Sorry about the volume. Too many bean burritos.
Abby doesn’t have a bumper... I already have a “Contains Radioactive Material” sticker on the back of my helmet. I used to have one that said, “Please stop screaming. I’m scared too.”
Do they come from Spinal Tap?
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My dad used to say, “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.” Which used to cause us to stop to try to figure out what he meant.
Anyway, you could swap “crying” for “screaming.”
Close... British Customs. She’s a British “metric bike” after all.
A rainy day around the bay, but not too cold. Spring is springing, and — so far — the turkeys aren’t Turk-ing, so we’ll call it “good.”
I don’t know whether I’ll ever fully acclimate to shooting out of the slot between the various trees that frame egress from the tees on this course. Firing off the 10th tee the ball felt good coming off the club, and I got good distance deep into the fairway, where the shot bounced to a decent lie just right of center and beyond the bunker on the left. Feeling I had a gamble to win, I drew a 5-iron and had a good crack at making the green. The ball was flying a bit left of the pin, and falling just short, but a couple of favorable bounces and a nice roll got it onto the putting surface and set me up about 15ft left and forward of the hole. My ground game hasn’t been consistent this round, but it has come through in the clutch, before, and a strong putt this time delivered the distance and the accuracy for the ball to find the cup and drop in for the Birdie.
I return, then, to a 2-under pace as we move on to the 11th.
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They’re like the two feral “running buddies” we rescued 10 years ago — Lilly and Darth-Ann. Suppose you can guess which is which - LOL!
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
We had a good evening with no drama from M-I-L’s quarter. It’s hard to believe Easter and Passover are so close. Like the frog said, “Time’s fun when you’re having flies.” Or something like that.
It was 28 fs when I walked The Princess this morning. It’s hard to believe the guess of a high of 70 for tomorrow.
Today I tried a really strong drive off the tee. I thought for sure my ball was going to go into the rough of to the left, or maybe even onto the cart track. But it stopped just short of the rough which gave me a decent shot to get on the green in 2. I did get to the green, but the ball took a surprisingly good roll straight toward the pin. It sank into the cup while I was still thinking I’d have an easy putt. So I go into the 11th hole actually under par for the first time in a while.
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