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.
Morning Kitteh service will be suspended until next Sunday. I will be at Scout camp with my daughter’s troop. Best wishes to all!
As always, the list is available on my profile page if other wish to share kittehs!
“the list is available on my profile page if other wish to share kittehs!”
Maybe I’ll post a few of ours.
That would be great. I’m sure everyone would appreciate it. There are FReepers on the list who never comment on the Undead Thread except when I miss a Kitteh!
May God bless and protect You, Your family members, Your extended family members, the United States, Israel and all the civilized world. Prayers that this day, this week and all the years to follow will be a blessing from God.
Thank you, N-T-I. That seems to have covered everything.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
Thanks for the kitteh, MM. Fiona doesn’t seem appropriately camouflaged.
We have a heat wave today. I will have some yard work to do at the homestead this evening. Hopefully it won’t be too hot for this Florida boy, especially on a riding lawnmower.
The weekend was spent getting rid of more clutter. There’s a lot to go before the appraiser comes. I also spent some time trying to clean the master shower floor.
Wordle was OK today.
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Good Monday Morning!
The weekend sure went by quickly!
This was a toughie... took a while to see it...
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Happy rainy, but cooler, Monday. I prefer to fall asleep to a t-storm... Waking up to one, not so much. Very difficult to his the snooze button on a lightning strike...
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Good Wordling....
Getting woken up by heavy thunderstorms is annoying whether it is 2am or 6am....
We had thunder storms Saturday night. They didn’t wake us up, but The Princess did. She wasn’t happy at all.
Mrs. ArGee wondered if an Iranian sleeper cell was hitting NYC but I told her we wouldn’t have heard that, unless it was a nuke.
Looking for warmer warms out on the Left Coast, today; there’s that Summertime haze in the air.
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I feel like my progression toward today’s Wordle solution was about as even as could be attained.
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Bigger cars were the rage when I was in High School. Had a few early ‘70’s Pontiac Grand Prix on campus, a slate of Impalas, Caprices, Olds Cutlass models, Buick Regals... lots of them slammed. Hadda lotta lowriders pumping soul tunes outta their big sound systems.
I remember witnessing an accident when I was in Houston. Some old boat of a station wagon turned too close in front of a late model sedan on a 45 mph road. The sedan t-boned the wagon. The way things were set up on the road the wagon missed the entrance to the parking lot it was turning for and went through the storm ditch at the side of the road, then up and out the other side onto the parking lot.
After the police came and all was said and done, the sedan had to be towed since the air bags had deployed and the front was a mess. The owner of the wagon just drove away with a dent in his passenger-side.
I’ll take a big boat of a car any day.
Most of our dogs bark at thunder as well, especially if it is nearby...
It was a very methodical progression...
Those big boats were very cool in a number of ways...
I had removed part of the inner rear fender wells to fit larger tires on the 70 Olds and added a set of ladder bars. Coil spring... so typical slapper bars were out... Blocked the rear springs to add a 2” suspension lift... Threw my drive shaft geometery off a bit, and the stearing was wonky... but it went fast...
Camaro has a 2” lift on the rear leafs and traction bars. Poly snubbers and bushings on the rear bars and front swaybar. Still need to re-bushing the front a-arms at some point... Maybe just re-do them with tubular control arms... I have a lot of other stuff to think about before I get to that point though...
I just like the simplicity of pre-1980’s vehicles.
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