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.
These are pretty nice.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Yeah. Too bad so many compensate for not being able to be 10 again, by acting 10 again, and again, and yet again...
I won’t grow up
I don’t wanna wear a tie
Or a serious expression
In the middle of July
Or, as John Mellencamp said
Growin’ up leads to growin’ old and then to dyin’
Ooh, and dyin’ to me don’t sound like all that much fun
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Don’t do it, kitteh! It’s a trap!
We had 52 fs when I walked The Princess this morning. I would call that a little chilly. She loved it, though.
F-I-L left a pistol to B-I-L. Mrs. ArGee managed to get the pistol to the local Sheriff’s office so it could be cleared for a gun dealer to pick up. The next step was supposed to be B-I-L arranges for a gun dealer in his area to contact the local gun dealer to arrange shipment. Apparently, that’s not a simple thing. Hopefully it will get there.
Also, hopefully we’ll select a realtor today.
Wordle was very ordinary today, and a little easier to guess than yesterday’s.
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That cat better be careful!
Good Morning!
That sounds downright chilly!
MIL’s dogs, well at least the female Pyr, are keeping me busy... she got out and was in the pasture behind the backyard this morning... the only place that she can’t escape from is her house at this point...
Took a bit, but got there...
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Dogs will be dogs.
Some more so than others!
So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the Lord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.” Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.
The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”
UNGH. RED TAPE.
I think if that kind of thing happened is fine back from the grave and carry the thing to the intended recipient myself.
“By the book” is now damnably equal to “under government supervision,” which nearly nobody wants or needs.
Makes my ancestry uneasy in their graves.
Interestingly, B-I-L told Mrs. ArGee that she could transport the gun to the sheriff’s office. Once there, the officer told her she should have called them to come get the weapon. However, they did not charger he with illegally transporting a pistol, which was good of them.
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
We had another chilly morning but the high is supposed to be in the 80s today.
I think we’ve picked a realtor and a pricing strategy. The other siblings need to confirm the plan, or at least not object.
Someone actually took some stuff that we put out on the curb marked “free” yesterday. We’re going to try with some more stuff today.
I didn’t expect THIS to happen.
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Good Midweek Morning!
A chilly morning sounds like a nice treat about now!
FREE stuff on the curb sounds like a good removal plan...
Made a dumb mistake on row 2, but recovered...
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If you think that it is bad in some US states, we watched a fairly similar situation play out on one of the BritBox shows that we watch.... much, much worse in the UK! Simply dreadful....
Nice 2 spot!
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Thank you. And I’ll see if I manage a 00 while I’m at it.
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