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.
Doo, doo, doo, lookin’ out my back door
Tambourines and elephants are playin’ in the band ...
Going to be out for a week. Taking my kids up to my Sister’s cabin in Northern MN... Will not have access to my usual computers...
Have a great week!
I hope you all have a great time!
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
I could kill and eat them.
Awwww...... 🤎 🐯
I found some of the wrong answers that Wordle accepted as valid words annoying. They seemed to be proper nouns to me. Doris? Goris?
Good morning. Happy Monday!
There are beautiful wooden floors under there. Take up those rugs. That’s what the realtor candidates all said. I ache all over. But the floors do look nice. OW!
Otherwise it was a pretty good weekend. It was a comfortably cool 62 fs this morning.
Wordle was decent. At least it wasn’t letting me guess words that aren’t Wordle words.
Wordle 1,493 4/6
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Yes, that has happened to me before... At times I don’t understand what they consider a ‘valid’ word or not...
Enjoy your kids and the time away! 🎣
Good Monday Morning!
It was a pretty good weekend aside from having to deal with one of my MIL’s escaping dog... I am feeding them while she is on a trip visiting out of state... Since it appears that a large section of the electric fencing is not working, she has to stay in her pen overnight and inside of the house during the day.... only a couple more days of it...
At least Wordle was reasonable....
Wordle 1,493 3/6*
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Often very nice floors under those old rugs... but taking up those old rugs and pads is messy work... then you have to haul them away!
Could be as simple as that!
Too true…. too true…
I hear ya’! Too bad we can’t just be 10 forever.
I love wooden floors.
I’m glad you caught the dog!
I have an unexpected day off camp staff, but I’m going back tomorrow. Today has been restful.
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