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.
Good Midweek Morning!
Sort of a cloudy start, but the guess is for a high of 95° today, we will see...
I seem to be in a four streak of late...
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Warm and Sunny start to the day. Absolutely STUPID traffic. Road Pirate was exorting money from one traveler... just another ten miles down the road, some other doofus had managed to lawn dart their car into a swampy area. Only the back half of the car was sticking up at an angle.
40 minutes trip took over an hour... so it could have been worse I guess.
Taking the long way home though. Get some rural miles to avoid the traffic. Much more relaxing.
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Two don’t get discussed much because of their preference. But the oldest would have informed us if he’d moved, at least.
If we’re not all using the same starter word we all at least have similarities. We all got goose-eggs on the first guess.
Hmm, I wonder if the lawn dart driver got out...
Back roads can be a mixed bag here... currently I am avoiding the main county road that runs about 10 miles from an East-West state highway down to our patch... it is so torn up in places, and horribly wash-boarded in others, that unless you go really slowly, you are (IMO) putting way too much wear and tear on the vehicles which are a Jeep or pickups in our case...
So to avoid that road, I take an alternate route that quickly leads me to a little used Farm to Market that is in pretty good shape that gets me down to a recently (beautifully) paved state highway that actually has 2 lanes in each direction...
So if I am doing my weekly run to Waco, the new route adds about 10 miles to the distance, but since I can travel at a very good clip on that newly paved two lane highway, I actually make it in just about the same amount of time...
There is another nice Farm to Market that we use when we go to the vets for the pups... very good shape, and pretty much a direct path to the vets, but it is very windy and is almost totally double yellow line no passing for about the 20 or so miles that we are on it... it is the luck of the draw if you get behind a gravel truck and can’t pass for miles... sometimes it takes me 35 minutes to get to the vets, other times it takes about 55 minutes... so we always leave early...
But in general, I do like the peaceful of the less traveled roads...
It was a bit of a weird solution... I even got four black on row two!
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A classic!
These roads that I refer too are in relatively good repair and entirely blacktop. My Abagail is a big girl and she doen’t care for dirt roads all that much. I’ve done it, but it is not preferred...
There wasn’t an ambulance there, so I’m assuming the lawn dart-ee was able to extricate themselves...
I guess how you say something depends on where you live.
Down south someone would say:
My Abagail is a big girl and she doesn’t mind getting a little mud on the tires.
These are the enviable “perfect” sorts of days you wish you’d have ALL the time; just moderate temps, light breeze, NOT the least muggy at all, a few lazy clouds... Let the storms hit the mountains and refill all the aquifers, but I’ll take this ANY day.
Happy my Wordle outing only took four, today; I was about stumped before I got the “Ahh-HAA” moment. Unlike yesterday’s performance, today my “seed” word got me no joy.
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Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
We have another warm day on tap. The high is guessed to get near 80. It’s definitely spring here. The Princess is definitely glad to have shed so much of her coat at her grooming yesterday.
One would think with a good first word the Wordle wouldn’t be that hard to solve. One would be wrong, at least if One were me.
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Ahhh, blacktop... nice when you can get it!
Enjoy!
We are in a stretch that is pretty much the opposite... Looks like we may get a chance at some in a week or so... 🤞🏻
Good Morning!
Only good thing to say about this weather is that it is guessed to only get to 90° today...
By the skin of my teeth for this one...
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This one was definitely tricksy.
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