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 that I have used my last few from one of those lists…
Ugh, it seems to me that vehicle issues are worse in the colder weather…
I had to change a few cracked fuel lines on my tractor, and now I’ve got air in the system that is a struggle to bleed out….
Hopefully the migraine subsides!
You’re too far away for me to reach you and perform a “magic” migraine cure, but trust me, if I could, I would.
Mostly because I hate migraines! I’ve had them since I was eight years old, and they’re nasty items to deal with.
Sorry about your vehicle problems. I should take mine in for winterizing, but I don’t have the money for that right now.
Hang in there, Dude. You can go home soon!
Now that the Excedrine Migraine has picked in... I’m at the “I still don’t feel great but am at least able to function” level. That whole “ice pick in the back of the skull” feeling is gone.
Leaving client site soon. Have a couple of meetings this afternoon... Might be able to take a nap during the second one.
I usually got mine on the right side. They’ve morphed recently into ocular migraines, but sometimes, I get the pain along with the flashing lights.
I hope you feel better soon!
Mine start at the back left base of my skull and progress forward to right between the eyes... I haven’t found it yet, but I’m pretty sure there is an environmental/dietary trigger. Some combo...
Was able to eat lunch, that helped too...
I know those migraines. They’re no fun.
I’m listening to our annual sexual harassment training. I figured out early it’s not a “how-to” course. ;)
It may give me a migraine.
I was told once that if the migraine is allergy-triggered take a tablespoon of baking soda in any amount of water at the first sign. If it kills the migraine, it was caused by a food allergy.
Engineering Townhall. Going over our Companies security “Best practices” for our clients...
Not really covering the whole “lead a client to a better security posture, but you can’t make them implement” part though...
I’ll try that... These don’t normally cluster though... So we’ll see.
I worked for a Peter Norton company for a while. One of his Essential Practices was “Don’t have both a strong password requirement and a regular password change requirement.” Use one or the other. If you implement both, then eventually people will start writing their passwords down and “hiding” them in their workspace. He said you can just start turning keyboards over until you find one with a sticky note on the bottom of the keyboard.
I carried a small plastic container with a white powder in it for a while.
It lead to some interesting conversations.
We’re pushing MFA, Multi Factor Authentication, with the hook that you can loosen the password complexity requirements a bit if you implement this properly.
For most, it works... For others? They really should stick to a pen and a pad of paper.
“Pssst... hey buddy... You wanna bake some cookies? I got baking soda here... You’re not a cop are you?”
I have to say I don’t mind the dry recitation of the stuff that I can read on the screen all that much. Nor do I mind the incredibly obvious answers that any beast should be able to get right.
But there are very few of these examples that are about straight people. Do I really have to put up with this?
I can’t eat because of the nausea associated with migraines, and it’s hard to hold water down. It used to be that I didn’t know if I had one headache that lasted 10 days or 10 headaches that lasted a day each. I was just glad when they started to dissipate.
I don’t envy anyone who gets them, believe me, even if they only last a few hours.
Good Friday Morning!
I am always amazed that they can climb to the top of those trees without toppling them over!
The sun looks to be gone for a few days... hopefully there will be some beneficial rain during the period, not just dreary cloudiness...
This one was tougher than it should have been...
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Good morning. Happy Friday!
We have cold today. It’s 17fs now going for a ‘high’ of 28. Our guessed low on Sunday is 9fs before the warming trend begins. The Princess wasn’t as fast as I’d have liked this morning.
M-I-L didn’t sleep much last night. I don’t know if that particular caregiver makes her anxious or if the cold seeped into her bedroom. Someone will have to work to keep her awake today.
It was a normal Wordle today.
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Almost hidden in the branches!
Good morning. I hope you had a good night.
I think I had a better one than I was expecting in view of the day I had. Maybe I’ll be able to figure things out a little better today.
No plans except to run a few errands. I hope it’s warmer today that yesterday. Yesterday, I couldn’t get warm. Right now, it’s 28°, but the high is supposed to be 53. I think we only got to 45 yesterday.
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