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.
Pretty smart for a dumbass. ;-)
Congrats to the Team.
Another good drive off the tee box... Shot from the fairway dropped my on the green, but then I had some issues sinking the putt.
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It takes me back to my mini-golf days when I could hit just about anything I wanted to with my putt.
Except the hole.
Good Frank and the rest of the dumbasses!
Yeah, some time those putts are confounding!
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The blonde girl on the team isn’t a dumbass, but all the boys are, at least some of the time, although Brenda would never admit it about her sons.
Good morning. Happy Friday!
Please don’t let the vicious kitteh hurt me! I iz skeered.
We made it through our warm, wet day yesterday. It’s cooler today but supposed to be mostly sunny.
Young ArGee has been putting up with a custodian who actually asked her out for coffee and to attend an event with him. He’s probably older than I am. Anyway, she has politely let him know she’s not interested but he keeps pushing. Unfortunately, she has to be around him when there aren’t others around them and her classroom isn’t in an area that has video monitoring. So she finally had to complain. Today he’ll be told to stop. Hopefully that’s all that’s required.
You’d think with all the workplace training a man would know when to move on.
I had a nice drive that put me just across the water from the tee. It landed me a little bit on the downhill side from the green, right next to that lobe of the sand trap on the left. I was still able to hit it up onto the green for a moderate putt. Today my putting skills didn’t fail me and I was able to score another birie.
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Hopefully the administration can put an end to this...
Good Friday Morning!
We waited all day again yesterday for the rain that didn’t arrive... we’ll have a rainy day today... for sure!
I wondered if 13 would be unlucky or lucky for me today... it started out lucky as I hit the green from the tee! Then I proceeded to four-putt it and ended up with a double bogey! 🙃
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I will head to the 14th on Monday with a 52, 1 over par...
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The Principal started out a bit on the wrong foot, actually accusing young ArGee of being "elitist". But she's figured out that this is a serious situation and plans to either give Young ArGee a new room or the custodian a different area of responsibility, as of today. There will also be "the talk" between HR and the custodian. That's the plan.
Hopefully the plan will take care of the problem...
We are praying. Mrs. ArGee asked me this morning how we know he’s not unstable and this will drive him over the edge. I said it’s just like not knowing her neighbor won’t one day wake up and start shooting at strangers. It’s tough being so far away sometimes.
I had actually discussed with Mrs. ArGee the possibility of making the trek and showing up with my daughter one morning and discussing the situation man to man. We opted to follow the process.
I will be spending the weekend on the putting green apparently. Managed to make it down the fairwy and onto the green with no real flashy strokes.
However... Missing that putt is getting annoying.
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I wonder if the course is alive and moving the cup just to frustrate us.
Darks, are you aware of any sentient golf courses in the US?
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As long as he is not unstable, the process should work... 🙏🏼
Yup, today my putting was like a comedy of errors...
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