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.
Then I’m mis-counting. I thought I was 2 under and you were 5?
Ah, no, I’m 3 under. It seems farther away than that.
Yes, 3 under for you... DC was 4 under after 4 holes...
Note to self - never gamble on my golf game. 😄
“Um... a little help please? I ‘tink I iz stuck...”
Happy Tuesday... HAd some hail earlier this morning with a bit of thunder. Just kind of a gray day now...
Despite a solid hit off the tee that carried some really good distance, my wedge to the green didn’t have enough arse behind it to reach the pin. Quick tap in for the putt to close out the hole.
Wordle 1,403 3/6
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I don’t know about you guys, but the hole’s par matches my experience Sunday much better than my experience today.
Off this 5th tee I played it like a more pronounced left dog-leg and found the left side of fairway about 290 yards distant. Still quite a bit over 200 yards to the pin, I shot a conservative 5 iron to a lie a ways short and left of the trap shielding the green leaving me more than just a chip shot to make the hole.
I drew a 9 iron and got very good loft on a heading for the flag, and the ball touched down within 2 feet of the cup, but hopped on beyond just into the rough. Putting from there I missed just wide, and had to take the tap-in 5th stroke to par the hole.
Off to 6 still holding at +2.
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Yeah.
“Seed” words are everything in this game.
I’ve got a better one than I used to, but it may still be leaving me wanting.
Good advice for us all!
I tell you, you are on a tear this round... all 3s on the first 5 holes...
It matched my Saturday score, and I would have bogeyed it on Sunday...
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Sunday's game is a great example of that:
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My father would have told me: "You're playing like a jerk!"
Yep, the key is to eliminate as many words as possible, so that by the time you get to the third guess you’ve narrowed it down to 2 or 3 words, once you eliminate all of the previously used words.
Makes sense!
Kitteh is hilarious!
It’s a trap.
My daughter Sally has a black cat with a lot of claws.
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