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.
Oy. It’s progress even if it doesn’t feel like it!
To rub his belly, of course. Then he’ll bite you.
He had too much fun with his tunnel.
A dead ringer for my 17-year-old Tigger!
That’s a plush cat!
It looks like he’s been customizing that table for a while! 🤣
Good morning. Happy Monday.
I hope everyone had a good Independence Day weekend!
We moved junk. Then we moved junk. We now have to get rid of the rest of the junk.
Oh, and I shredded papers.
But hopefully we’ll be done with this phase of our lives soon and we can get on to the next one.
Wordle has not been going so well lately.
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Good Monday Morning!
Sounds like the house was stuffed to the brim!
Wordle has been tough, I lucked into yesterday’s odd ‘word’ by trying another odd word before it...
Today was just more luck...
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But at least it was a fairly normal word...
Happy Monday... Sunny this AM, but t-storms for this afternoon... So driving the Caddy rather than riding Abby.
Had a nice enough weekend with the Family. Kids behaved themselves and appeared to have a good time. Lots of boating and swimming inbetween the rain.
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Sounds like a good weekend all around... weather here has been so oppressive that we skipped the annual fireworks on Friday night, just came home to cool off and dry out after being at a neighbor’s for a rib fest... only other highlight was driving to Walmart yesterday afternoon to buy some Rainex... lol
Sounds like everyone had an okay weekend!
It was very okay in contrast to the poor souls in the Hill Country….
No question about that. And I guess there’s been some flooding due to a tropical storm in the Carolinas, too.
Yup, the “C” storm went ashore and mucked things up over there….
Good Morning!
She must be on the blue bag team...
Maybe we will see the sun sometime soon, or then again, maybe not...
This one made a nice pattern...
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Well... that was a close one...
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Very close!
I had the 4 yellow on row 1 and 4green on row 2 on Sunday and got it in 3….
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