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.
Mine isn’t, the inside is covered in slobber and fur, courtesy of Tyson-who-isn’t-allowed-on-the-furniture...
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles” – Isaiah 40:31
Or levitate like cats. I went outside during the sermon yesterday because I was going to have a panic attack if I listened to Father Redacted for another minute, and I had a nice time watching buzzards. They make flying look like anyone could do it.
The guy behind me on the freeway was pretty pissed...
...but I did get a good photo!
Oh, the gauges on the dashboard look clean!
I want to fly like an buzzard
To the sea
Fly like an buzzard
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an buzzard
‘Til I’m free
Oh, Lord through the revolution
Feed the babies
Who don’t have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin’ in the street
Oh, oh there’s a solution
Steve Miller 3:16
That’s cuz Tyson doesn’t drive!
w00t!
I ran a Ford Escape for 265,000. I mentioned to the Ford dealer that I was surprised it ran for so long. He said all the Ford cabs in NYC regularly run for 400,000 or more. Of course, the cab companies all have their own repair shops.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
We had some rain last night. I guess it came with warmer weather. It was 75 fs when I walked The Princess, heading for a high of almost 90.
Mrs. ArGee says all the paper shredding is messing with her sinuses. I’ve started on all the Income Tax records. F-I-L kept them from 1955 until I started doing them online in 2023. Talk about a lot of paper!
B-I-L is coming in tonight if he hasn’t become sick again.
Nothing special about Wordle today.
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Good morning. I think it’s time to make the Youth get up.
Good Morning!
You must have had a very good shredder going in to this...
We are finally getting a bit drier and less swampy during the day...
Another so-so Wordle...
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Makes sense!
Thanks!
It’s humid here, too.
At this point I am happy if it dips below 50% for some of the day...
It’s summer.
Meh... Tuesday. 73 and Sunny right now... Supposedly no rain today... which should be a nice change.
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Very true, very true...
Good Wordle and better weather... what more can you ask for?
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