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.
I haven’t tried ice. I may seriously give that a try.
Thank you!
Thank you!
I thought the night vision deterioration was secondary to loss of rod photoreceptors. The first eye is scheduled for tomorrow. This particular lens is supposed to correct astigmatism and presbyopia. They're also going to try to resolve glaucoma. (No more eye drops--yayyy!) They can adjust/customize the lens post-surgically. I'm really looking forward to seeing if it works or not.
Do you know why Mrs. ArGee is resistive to surgery? Part of mine is being done robotically. They use conscious sedation which results in anterograde amnesia (a big plus!).
Why would you not want to remember having lenses put it?
I found it fascinating!
I want him/her! Beautiful.
I think Mrs. ArGee is just resistant to surgery. But I’m sure there is no good time right now.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
I think they’re going to need a bigger box.
I managed to get a decent night’s sleep last night. My sore throat was just a sore throat, not a raging inferno. I don’t know if that’s because I did some better things to take care of it or if I’m just on the mend.
Today is right out of the song “16 Tons.” I was born one morning it was drizzle and rain. Add that it was almost 60 fs and you get our weather.
Speaking of “Twosday” ...
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Good that the throat is doing better!
Good Morning!
Not much to report on the weather front other than we are still living in a sponge...
Same pattern as yesterday, sacrificed row 2, came very close on row 3...
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Rain cleared out enough yesterday for me to start re-wiring the engine bay on the Camaro for the new EFI system. Need to mount the fuel pump relay and re-route some of the vacuum lines. But it’s coming along...
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Nice, what year is the Camaro? I didn’t know what you were working on...
and nice job on the 2 spot!
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Keep us posted!
Way to go on the 2 on Wordle! 👍
Like I always say, it’s better to be lucky than good.
Bravo.
I check in every once in a while to see if the potential unexploded ordnance has ever been identified. Anybody know?
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