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.
I’m sorry about the loss of your cat, MM. I’m sure she was well loved.
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
Mrs. ArGee is beginning to despair of ever sorting through everything in the house. I’m sure she’ll be fine but she isn’t looking for solutions right now, just a chance to vent about how hard it is.
Decent Wordle today.
Wordle 1,432 3/6
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
That makes a lot of sense to me!
Very true...
Sorry to see that you lost your girl... she looked like a real beauty...
Good Midweek Morning!
Looks like one more sunny, dry day for us before the winds turn again and pump that humidity up from the South...
Decent Wordle for me as well today...
Wordle 1,432 3/6*
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Still raining... Looks like we turn a corner tomorrow, even though cooler temps are sticking around through the weekend.
Another long, boring, bleak day today.
Wordle 1,432 4/6
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Nice alliteration.
I’m now trying to think of a word that could have been used for “long” that starts with B.
Beastly... not so much long as just generally unpleasent.
Bathetic... Depths of pathos.
Brobdingdangian... Dunno... Ask Gulliver...
Sometimes long, boring, and bleak can be better than the alternatives!
If only “dumb” were the problem....
ArGee and zzeeman both nailed a 3
Modified by the Black Square Ratio, zzeeman’s 3 becomes a 3.8, and ArGee’s becomes a 4.2.
I did not enjoy such a great outing today.
A skin-of-my-teeth 5.
Modified by the Black Square Ratio, it’s a 7.2.
Wordle 1,431 5/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
There’s supposed to be a nor’easter hitting this area. I guess the heavy rain didn’t hit this far inland. We have light rain and cooler temps that start warming tomorrow. I hope the heavy rains aren’t still on the way.
Mrs. ArGee is going through piles of old photographs. It’s amazing how many pictures were stored in that home. She says she’s getting faster about just deciding which pile they go in. She’s not stopping to look at them as much or as long.
The Wordle was a little tricky today.
Wordle 1,433 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Good Morning!
Well we’ve enjoyed our brief respite from the humidity and now the winds once again...
The Wordle was a lot tricky for me today, just made it before falling off the grid...
Wordle 1,433 6/6*
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
(A questionable ‘word’ there on row five...)
Cool, but Sunny this morning. 42 when I left the house going to 65 later this afternoon. New front tire and brakes on Abby made the ride in pleasent.
Wordle 1,433 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I hope everything’s OK, T-C. Missing you and the Kitteh.
😂
I can relate to that, my youngest son graduated 30 years after me from the same school... we had some of the same professors as well...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.