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.
Well heck, she shouldn’t have gone after your listing if she wasn’t serious about selling the property!
That’s what we’re thinking.
Much as I dislike the snark that’s crept into most conservative opinion writing, I almost LOLed at this.
“One thing is certain: The corpse of the Trump-Russia scandal has risen like a zombie and is now shambling toward its originators in the hope of eating their brains.”
Martin Gurri in the New York Post.
Unfortunately, the zombies won’t get much nourishment.
I finally got the Wordle. I didn’t save the image because I had to switch to Incogneto mode to try an “elimination” word since I was totally out of ideas. So my regular browser would have shown a 5/6 but it really took 6.
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Cats aren’t that successful at ruling the fish of the sea.
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There has been some tough sledding of late….
Warming up a bit out West.
Kids gearing up to get back to school next week (EGAD!)
We were out until September back when.
Got out to a movie last night. Thought it was worth it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16311594/
Some good stuff in there about respect for your elders, and keeping your word.
Wordle today... Mmmm-mmm. They’re swinging for the fences coming up with the unusual, that’s for sure.
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LOL ….
My sister and BIL were planning to see that yesterday... glad that you enjoyed it!
Cats are pretty good at taking dominion over the fish of the sea, though.
I saw a gif in the Sunday Smiles on hot air of a kitteh challenging a tiger on the front porch of a home.
I’m glad for your recommendation. It looks like a good movie along the lines of Ford vs. Ferrari (which I thought was a dumb idea for a movie until I watched it).
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
I have a dentist appointment this afternoon. One of my crowns came loose. It’s on a back tooth on my upper jaw. The tooth had migrated enough last year to create an unfortunate gap between it and its neighbor that sometimes allowed food to get impacted in there. I was putting off having anything done about that gap to save money after Mrs. ArGee’s implant. I guess God decided I’d saved enough money.
I’m not going to try to explain where this score came from. All I can say is I really didn’t want to make my 2nd guess but couldn’t think of anything else.
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Good work! Hopefully the dentist trip isn’t too bad...
Good Midweek Morning!
Maybe we will hit the triples today... missed by a few yesterday... the nice thing is that it is a lot dryer... way less humidity so it is bearable...
Only letter elimination today...
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Wodins-day greetings to you all...
Nice ride in this AM. A bit cooler than it has been, but pleasent other than the usual knot-heads screwing up traffic with their lack of piloting skills.
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Probably crying over not being able to rule the fish. :)
I went into the film thinking I’d enjoy the F1 racing scenes, and that was certainly the case, but the off-track script was really decent, as well. The older guy stepping into a land he’d not been part of for 30 years racing alongside a young guy all-in for the fortune and fame as part of a team that seems to have all the right parts, but just hasn’t been able to make it all work. There a few “moments” in there that were just solid gold; the poker game, in particular. Don’t let that one get past you.
10/10 Highly Recommend.
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