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.
This kind of thing is why some argue that cats don’t have bones.
Good Monday Morning!
At least they have great imaginations!
Not much to report on the weather front, storms, rumors of storms, and too much humidity...
It took quite awhile to determine that I had only one unused choice for row 3...
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Maybe this one just let its battery drain too soon?
Good morning. Happy Monday!
The Princess spit up a little yesterday morning. She has done that off-and-on all her life but it was one of the things the vet thought her steroid would help with. We really don’t want to keep her on her steroid so we decided to switch up the morning routine to feed her a little earlier. We’ll see how that goes.
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Happy Monday. Hazy Monday. Nice and warm today, but smoke from wild fires has it looking kind of over-cast from the smoke.
Good start to the week that looks to be rained out the rest of it though... Might put those fires out...
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Happy Monday.
On another thread the question was posed concerning which months might be assigned to the Seven deadly Sins. I suggested:
January - ENVY MONTH (Lookie what I got for Christmas...)
April - WRATH MONTH (Need I explain?)
August - SLOTH MONTH (Who wants to do anything in the heat?)
November - GLUTTONY MONTH (Uuuuuurrrpp!)
December - GREED MONTH (Jingle all the way...)
LUST MONTH might be February, but have you SEEN what Halloween parties have become...? So, hard to pin that one down.
But — honestly — September should be PRIDE MONTH because PRIDE comes before a Fall.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4320234/posts?page=33#33
Now all we need are five more Deadly Sins and we can book the year solid.
I’d like to get a whole year designated “International Year of the White Man” and just sit on my front porch with a beer listening to the reverberations of leftist heads exploding across the suburban wastes.
[sigh]A man can dream...
Of course — and don’t tell anybody — but the very NAMES of a couple of months commemorate elitist European white men, so — there’s that. I guess 2 out of 12 ain’t bad.
And don’t let’s get started on the days of the week...
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Happy Monday to you, too!
I don’t think we need specific months for specific sins - including “Pride”. Americans like to indulge in all of them all of the time.
It’s like National Donut Day. Who needs a day to help market donuts?
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
It doesn’t seem very summery at the start of June around here. It got up to 72 for the high yesterday but the mornings have been in the upper 40s.
B-I-L is procrastinating sending something that is necessary to finish the distribution of the physical assets. Mrs. ArGee doesn’t want to make her brother mad at her, but she’s going to have to put her foot down. His summer will be busy with lots of weddings on the calendar so he needs to get his stuff done. He’s coming out tomorrow, so maybe a good face-to-face will get him on the stick.
Not the greatest Wordle day today.
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Your reasoning seems to be pretty solid... good to see you around!
I suppose it is all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? That photo could have easily been captioned: Orange cat with nice perch!
Good Morning!
Still waiting for that high pressure dome to set up....
This Wordle was another with a questionable ‘word’ as the result... in my opinion...
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Agreed on the “questionable” part.
Does that mean you have to love a cat?
It means you love a cat when it improves your mood, I guess.
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Hit-n-run... Dealing with a client havin a crypto event...
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