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.
Wait a minute... if you guys are standing rat cheer, then who is older dare?
I could be older.
I’ll race you to it.
Just let me grab my cane.
Good Morning!
Have I mentioned how awful the ‘seasonal’ allergies have been around here? I have no scientific data available, but it seems like one of the worst ever... Perhaps the constant wind is keeping it all stirred up in the air all of the time...
A toughie today on the Wordle front...
Wordle 1,396 4/6*
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Been puzzling on that photo... can’t make out for sure what kind of opening that cat is hanging out in...
I’ve lost it... my head must be too jumbled to follow along this morning... 🙃
Happy Tuesday.
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The English name is derived from Middle English Tewesday, from Old English Tiwesdæg meaning “Tīw’s Day”, the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, law, and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin dies Martis.
IOW... Punch today in the head...
I’ve actually wondered about that from time to time... thanks for the detailed explanation!
Just a copy/paste from part of the Wiki article... That last line was my contribution. :-)
Mrs. ArGee is Executor. There will probably be some sibling stuff around things int he house that people want.
I don’t gots to worry about who is older dare. I jus’ stays with the people rat cheer.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
I’ve been owrking. Sorry about shirking the more important UT.
Mrs. ArGee is still getting used to not getting text after text. Once the caregivers stopped her brother started. But there’s been real peace for the last couple of days. It’s weird.
I had a so-so Wordle outing. Z-man, if you want to pick a course, I’ll be glad to start another round tomorrow.
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It looks like a doorway into a home sided with adobe.
Sounds good to me, hoping that DC and HKMk are up for another round...
Picked a very nice course up in Minnesota... The Quarry at Giants Ridge, Biwabik, MN....
They’ve got a great flyover tool at the link below to survey each hole:
I figured doorway based on the fact that it goes down to the floor... but I see no moulding or hardware that would indicate that there is actually a door for that doorway...
Works for me, if the flyover tool doesn’t make me dizzy.
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I think it’s an interior doorway with a step down. Behind the cat seems to be an entryway where the people are leaving their shoes and stuff.
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