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.
Here where I’m living now I can’t put shredded paper in the recycles bin that gets picked up from the apartment, but the transfer station will take it. It bugs Mrs. ArGee that she can’t just put it in this bin. “Doesn’t it all go to the same place?” Apparently not.
The process for sheet paper vs shredded paper is different.
We can’t put glass in our bin, but you can take it to a county drop-of location.
With so many “greenies” in this country you’d think someone could organize them to go around door-to-door and manually collect stuff, make sure it’s all proper, and take it to the recycling center.
You know, since they care about the planet and all.
Supposed to get hot out here.
Area “Cooling Stations” are available.
I have no idea how I made it past 8th Grade without any A/C.
By all modern metrics I should’ve heat stroked out and died.
We aren’t anywhere close to the strength of our forebears.
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Wordle today... well, when I finally got it, I did.
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Great picture.
We’re having a break from being hot. Now we’re being drenched.
It's actually Thorsday, but we don't argue with catz.
There will be no Morning Kitteh on Friday or Saturday: my husband and I are going on short trip for kayaking in the swamp.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Kayaking in the swamp sounds like fun. I didn’t know DC actually had any places to go kayaking.
The estate is finally listed in the interwebs. Now for the offers to come pouring in. Or not.
Holding on to a 3/6 trend with Wordle. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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trying to decide if I want to go to town early and get some stuff done when I get back, or the inverse....
I don’t think that I ever got two of these in a row...
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Nice job.
I always prefer going to town early as it’s less crowded.
That is, when I have to go to town.
Um ... I actually like Triscuts.
Happy Thursday...
Building out some laptops for a client. She’s a little... distracting... Very cute, very Christian, very married... *sigh*
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Good luck with the estate! I hope it moves quickly.
You've described trash collection in Egypt!
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You have a son in NYC, right?
You probably know by now that in NYC people start at oh-dark-thirty to go through the bins and pull out the metals they can get cash for. They also pull out deposit cans and bottles. People carry HUGE bags full of the stuff they’ve pulled from the bins. Some even have trucks nearby to take the bags to wherever they go.
The commissioner of DSNY has tried to claim that’s a crime. But they don’t stop it. Those people do a great job of cleaning out the recycling bins of anything that’s good to recycle. The rest can just be landfilled (but from a separate container so people feel good).
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