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.
Good Morning!
The thunderstorms that were supposed to be here last night into the morning must be running late... now supposed to arrive for lunch!
Took awhile, but then I git lucky...
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Tell him to lay low on Saturday...
That “I got two letters in the right place” sand trap is tough no matter how much sleep or coffee you’ve had.
I hung up the sandwedge and just used a shovel...
Dumb and Dumber-er...
Cute, but Stupid Party.
“We’re Democrats, we don’t have to make sense”...
Interesting markings. Giving everyone a perpetual “finger”. Good kitty!
Cats come in some crazy patterns.
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
The sun is shining and we should have a warm day.
Mrs. ArGee thinks she caught whatever her brother had. She’s now working on getting the house appraised and setting up a bank account for the estate. She’s waiting for the sisters’ response to the brother’s update to the physical asset wish list.
As far as Wordle goes, a good day.
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Good morning. We took care of our granddaughter yesterday. It was pretty exhausting.
I wish Mrs. ArGee the best. Even though my mother had a trust and stuff to avoid probate and an “estate,” there are still hassles going on four months after her death. There’s one form, having to do with the residuum of long-term care insurance, that my sister-in-law has had me sign three different times, because it’s never exactly what the company wants.
I suspect that you will all be happy once the property is sold and the estate is closed...
Good Midweek Morning!
The guessers say that we will be inundated here today... we’ll see...
Even though I made a dumb mistake on row 2, it gave me enough clues to proceed...
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Insurance companies are the worst about the paperwork. But if large sums are involved, I can understand.
Yes, and especially because once that’s all taken care of we can move back to our house and stop paying rent here.
Good Morning...
Well... the weather up is apparently in a pattern now... 14 day forecast says RAIN every... single... day.
I know Minnesota is trying to slide off the Left-side of the political map, but I didn’t think we were literally trying to become Seattle.
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I’ve noticed that those dumb mistakes are rarely useless. That’s why I’m not sure whether I’d have gotten the answer sooner if I hadn’t made it.
Even better!
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