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.
Could be a cat, or it could be a daycare.
We’re having steady rain today, sometimes heavy, stops now and then. Chilly, too. I’m glad it’s today and not the weekend.
Yeah, we have the reverse. After putting up with a decent amount of the wet stuff over the weekend, I’m looking out at a beautiful, sunny day.
I think if there had been more snakes, there would have been less evidence of mice...
Yes, much better timing!
Lol!
Must be crazy! 🤣
Good Midweek Morning!
Week is moving quickly... wish that the swampiness would move out just as quickly...
Lucky second guess today!
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Happy Wednesday! Cue the camel... “Hey Mike!”
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Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
I’m a little late because I had to drop one of the cars for a repair and then when I got back I sort of got pulled directly into OWRK. Sheesh- just because they pay me ...
The weather looks nice again today. I did get to walk The Princess yesterday afternoon for a short excursion and it was gorgeous! Cooler temps are on tap, though, if the guesses come through.
I’m back to normal with Wordle today.
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am-MAZE-ing! Nice work.
I guess I’m the slowpoke today with 4.
Happy Odin’s Day, everyone. It is currently not raining here. Maybe I’ll go to the library.
I have a Zoom meeting with my late mother’s accountant this afternoon. We’ll finally learn what she left. Could be huge, could be not much.
If this happened in WokeUSA, the teachers would still be having the shakes two weeks later. The school might shut down for the balance of the semester, or at least until the therapeutic compensatory damages awarded by the school district had time to work their effects.
Happy Odin’s Day T-C.
It was raining this morning, but it’s tapered off a bit. Supposed to be much nicer on the ‘morrow and in to the weekend though with highs in the mid-80’s.
I hope the Zoom meeting goes well and is not too stressful.
Thanks. The rain has stopped for now, which is nice.
Could be huge and not much after Uncle Sam takes his share. Who knows?
I'm surprised the cat would sit still for that.
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