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 think the biggest two names I’ve worked for, are AMD and Dell... 6 months at Dell, laptop engineering division... and 5 .5 years at AMD in Austin...
Good times.
“You’re spending too much time on your beeber and not enough with your cat.”
I hope you have a lot of treats!
Someone tried to give the barn kittahs tube treats at the vet.
They acted like she was trying to poison them.
Sally’s cats like “cat glop.” Blech.
Austin and Round Rock are nice.
Politics are a little wonky, though, especially for Texas.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
I normally plug my beeber in when I go to bed so it’s fully charged for the next day. I plugged it in last night but it didn’t charge. I guess the connector is starting to fail. (sigh)
We have a little drizzle this morning but it’s warm. The estate house has met Mrs. ArGee’s exacting standards for calling a realtor, so that starts this week. She’s suddenly feeling the pain of her childhood home leaving the family. I guess I was lucky that my parents sold the home I grew up in while they were alive. The house that had to be sold when they died meant nothing to me. Although I really don’t get attached to stuff anyway.
Not the best Wordle weekend, capped of with an ordinary score today.
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Happy Sunny Monday...
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Good grief, that one took forever!
Wordle 1,486 4/6*
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Sometimes it’s a real brain exerciser.
Quite a few of them have been real struggles lately….
Toasty weekend.
Sunday afternoon BBQ by the pool.
Made my basic carrot salad & added chopped pecans and sunflower seeds to it.
Just a nice, relaxed evening with food & friends.
A REASONABLE performance, today.
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That’ll preach.
Good one.
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The carrot salad sounds good!
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