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.
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
Thank you, well done!
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Yes, I iz a pirate!
Yesterday was a quiet-ish day on the estate side, which is good news (I hope). I have to try to figure out some Met-Life deposit that’s still going into M-I-L’s old checking account.
I also need to get Mrs. ArGee on the stick about calling Social Security. She doesn’t have enough points for her own account so she has to get on my Medicare account before it kicks in (yes, about to turn 65). Naturally, she doesn’t want to add that to her list. But I want to pick out our Part C and I want her included when I do it. If it’s going to still be there, I’m going to take advantage of it.
I was down to one guess at Wordle and 2 options for the guess. ‘Phew’ is right!
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Good Morning!
First time in a long time: the sun is actually out upon waking!
“Phew” is right... I don’t know how many more choices there were... that is one of the worst patterns to fall in to...
I guess I should consider myself lucky...
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He/she looks like there is plenty of seafood available aboard!
Blessed Thor’s Day to you all... Apropos as I can hear thunder popping off right now...
Woke up with the start of a migraine, but my usual 2-tylenol/2-motrin profilaxis seems to have knocked it down. We’ll see how the day progresses.
Working from home with a completely open calendar. Concerned that my company is no longer capable of keeping me busy. Not a fan of some of the Japanese management structures they’ve implemented to “improve our profitability”... but have done the opposite. Time will tell...
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It is what it is...
I think he’s more than adequately fed.
You beat Z and me.
I’ll put a Gold Star on the fridge for me... :-)
That, and I’m not keeping score... so... yeah. (palms up, head tilt, shrug)
My husband dealt with that by playing the guitar to the cat all day.
I have a guitar, and no cat... I also have a couple of viola’s, babpipes, electronic keyboard, etc...
I Need billable hours unfortunately.
Enrolled in a Palo Alto firewall training course on UDemy. They do things differently from other manufacturers I’m familiar with, so I figured why not...
Good idea.
I hope you have hours tomorrow!
They drank a lot.
4 hours... Remote support in the AM... *sigh*
There are days when I completely understand Marvin the Paranoid Android.
“Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don’t.”
Unnngh.
EERK!! I ran outta pavement!
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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