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 Monday Morning!
Hopefully everyone enjoyed the weekend, to some degree at least...
Broke my streak of 3s today... been deploying a new approach: I use whatever word I think is best for row 2, whether it has been used or not... seems to be pretty good so far, of course I won’t be getting many 2s with that approach...
Wordle 1,458 4/6*
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Do you think that it was allergies or a cold? Our allergies have been plumb awful this year...
Had an ok weekend. Pete’s grad party was on Saturday. Had a BBQ at my parents for Father’s day. Got some riding in in between storm clouds...
Happy Monday ya’all...
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w00t!
I’m embracing the power of AND.
When I can talk at all, that is.
My $1,000 book value car needs $3,600 in repairs...
Probably still cheaper than buying another car.
Unfortunately, it won’t increase the book value of your car to $3600.
After I've driven the wheels off of this one. It shouldn't be all that much longer.
Heck, maybe I can even get it to 250,000 miles...
Sounds pretty good!
Ahhh, both of them...
Thanks! It came out of nowhere...
Very true! Welcome to the club, of sorts...
Ouch!
*shrug* I bought it used and have put maybe 100,000 miles on it. If I can squeeze out another 20,000, it will be a quarter million miler...
That’s not bad at all then!
I remember buying a used car and selling it about 5 years later. After all was said and done I’d “rented” the car for about $1000/year. Not bad in my mind.
I’m not sure what it takes to stop this inferno in my throat. I have to figure out something or I won’t be sleeping tonight, either.
I know how that is.
I’m sorry to hear about that. Have you tried ice? I mean, seriously.
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