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.
You must be living in a place with wonderful weather... owing to the excessive humidity, we haven’t been able to open windows for several weeks now...
Mrs. ArGee complains of allergies if we use natural air instead of artificial.
If you’ve ever seen Mrs. ArGee with a sinus headache you’d understand why I keep them closed.
Afternoon, everyone. After a doctor appointment and two meetings today, I’m about ready to call it a day. Tomorrow we’ll go over to the community college with paperwork for Frank, who can start taking classes there as a junior in high school. Maybe I can persuade James to come along. There’s nothing but inertia preventing him from taking the same classes Frank signs up for.
I understand why you can use the open windows!
I agree, James should enroll along with Frank!
I wish you the best of luck in the parental persuasion endeavor.
Thanks. James is a nice boy. He’s just too comfortable in his current rut.
And congratulations. I remember when Pete was born ...
Kitty knows where all the warm spots are. 😁
I have a number of photos of our various cats sitting on keyboards.
Inertia can be tough. It will be good if James can learn to overcome it.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
B-I-L arrived safely last night. He told me he wants to plan and run an estate sale by himself so Mrs. ArGee won’t have to do anything. So he’s going to spend a bunch of money out of pocket to come here and run a sale that might at a stretch net $1000 for the estate, meaning he gets $250.
And this is the guy who can’t even respond to an email within 2 weeks because there’s so much going on. I asked him if he was really thinking about the stress it would put on him to have that deadline in his summer with 3 weddings and trying to keep his business going. I hope I convinced him because we really won’t be able to count on him. (sigh) Siblings.
Wordle was a little difficult today. I was not thinking right when looking for the 3rd option.
Wordle 1,447 4/6
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Good Morning!
At least the sun is shining...
Very long struggle to get something on row 4... sort of forgot that the word exists...
Wordle 1,447 4/6*
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STarting out warm and sunny... but storms due in for tonight. Drove, instead of rode, to my first client for the day... Felt actually kind of weird NOT being on the bike when the sun was shining so brightly...
Anyway...
Wordle 1,447 3/6
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I don’t want to wish storms on you but I hope you didn’t drive for no reason.
Hopefully the traffic wasn’t too bad…. Good job on that Wordle!
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