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.
w00t!
So, it occurs to me that I still access some sites using the in-laws’ logins which I had from when I was helping them with life. So maybe it makes sense to have a “Myself” option for helpers like me.
Still, it cracked me up.
It turns out it really was a firewall issue. Wronte a quick rule to allow the Ring security camera for the business to talking to their servers and nothing else...
It took longer to explain to the client why it was needed to be done this way than it was to get it running again.
Still nice and sunny outside. Heading for my next client...
Thanks!
That one really cracked me up....
The joys of Concurrent Credit.
The son of a family friend strategically targeted his selection of Concurrent Credit courses to align with General Ed requirements of Freshmen and Sophomores at the University he wanted to attend.
After graduating High School, Azusa Pacific reviewed his transcript and congratulated him on his impending matriculation as a Sophomore. On the strength of his Concurrent Credit, he completed his undergraduate degree in 3 years saving over $70,000 in tuition, room and board.
Yes, it’s a terrific deal. If nothing else, it gets their screw-up semesters behind them before it really counts, because you don’t have to try to transfer the credits.
In North Carolina’s program, if you’re taking a “College Transfer Pathway,” all the credits you earn are guaranteed to transfer to any public university in-state.
Awww. Looks like my kitty, Mel. (RIP)
Good morning. Happy Friday.
Mrs. ArGee and her brother were happy to get through all the Christmas stuff yesterday. I’m apparently going to have a lot to take to the transfer station on Saturday. Apparently the in-laws had enough to decorate 10 trees. Much was unopened.
I had an unforced error on try 2 today or I might have made it in 4.
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I can almost hear the kitteh with an Aussie accent explaining how this ford site was chosen for the raging river.
I wasn’t even sure I had spelled this one right... I even made a mistake on one guess...
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That one confuses me....
Good Friday Morning!
I am still waiting for the high pressure dome...
Good grief, this one took me forever to make a row 4 guess, and again, I believe it may have been the only word possible...
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Today was a day that the trailing Y came in handy….
I can definitely relate to that…
Agreed. I’m still using my default starter... Why change now?
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We got rain. The Princess doesn’t like it which means there is thunder out there somewhere.
Yesterday the high was just above 90. Today it’s just above 70.
Isn’t it summer yet?
Sounds like it is coming soon!
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It’s not summer until June 21, according to my calendar.
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