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.
Zombie Computers!!!!
Run for your lives!
Looks like your and my minds are working alike today.
I feel sorry for you.
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My mind might be working, but the rest of me wants to go back on vacation...
Reading through some light documentation...
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Yes, I expect to find the same result. The laundry is never done, either.
I’m off to Uptown this afternoon to take care of my granddaughter for a few hours. Maybe we’ll go to the international grocery store.
My mother told the story of taking my youngest brother’s oldest son shopping. The boy was maybe 3. He picked something off the shelf and said, “Nana, we need one of these.” My mom said, “No, we don’t.” The boy said, “Nana, do we have one?” Mom said we didn’t. He said, “Then we need one.”
3-year-old logic. Gotta love it.
“3-year-old logic. Gotta love it.”
My 3-year-old nephew in the ‘80s:
His father told him to do something, and got the old “you’re not the boss of me” reply.
Dad: Then who is?
Kid: First there’s God. Then there’s President Reagan. You’re not even close.
Good news all around I would say!
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Good news on a good physical!
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Ugh is right, it was a tough one...
Truth!
That’s also 13-year-old reasoning. Afternoon with the baby went fine. We watched “Cat TV” on YouTube: videos of birds and squirrels and things.
Unless something turns up in the blood work. “I think you would notice if you had uncontrolled diabetes,” she said as she marked “No” on that on my Scouts health review.
It sounds like a good time was had by all.
Even the birds and squirrels and things.
There was one where a crow and a squirrel got in a fight over nuts.
Good morning. Happy Friday!
This isn’t ... you know it might be cuter if ... what’s really cute is ... nevermind. I fail.
Mrs. ArGee had a serious sinus headache last night. “Maybe it’s from all the dust on everything I’m going through at the house.” Ya think? It seems better this morning.
I don’t know if I mentioned this after The Princess’ vet visit earlier this week, but she hasn’t had a seizure since last Christmas Eve. That makes it just over 5 months.
I went a little weird on guess 3, which I wasn’t 100% sure was a word. If I’d been thinking about more normal words I might have gotten this sooner.
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