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.
Good Morning to All early risers !!! May God’s grace be as kind as is possible, to each of us, forever and forever. Amen.
Good morning, and thank you. I’m going up to Salisbury this morning with Kathleen, Sally, and baby Georgia to buy a Honda Accord.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
Temps in the low 50s again this morning. I don’t know how long it will last.
It’s pretty nice to be planning the final emptying of the in-laws’ house and actually moving ourselves. We’re probably looking at moving in November. I’ll be taking some stuff to the Wildlands over Labor Day weekend and bringing back the moving blankets we have there.
I know it’s hard for Mrs. ArGee to think of the house leaving the family. Since my parents moved out of the house I was raised in when my dad turned 60, I never had to face that feeling. The house we sold when my mom died was the one she moved into after my dad died and I barely knew it.
In the more prosaic world, there’s Wordle.
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Thank you.
I have yet another dentist appointment. Hopefully her college fund is sufficiently replenished that she won’t find something else while she’s placing this crown.
Good Morning All. Another week lies before us and it looks like my corner of the planet will do so under cover of rain...
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Wow, just wow!
Good Monday Morning!
Another pretty quiet, relaxing weekend... still looks like we are in the Summer pattern here...
It took a while to formulate a 3rd guess... and at that point I think that it was the only one...
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Well, the latest crown went in with even less effort then the previous one. And no new issues were found.
I was listening to the Classic AT 40 channel on I-Heart-Radio on the way over and heard Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” again. Back the early 80s they wrote:
The problem’s plain to see
Too much technology
Machines to save our lives
Machines dehumanize.
I wonder how they feel singing that song today.
There have been a lot of works in song and literature that have foretold what we see around us now... I doubt that any of them had been given the appropriate level of understanding at the time... I also think a lot about the Mike & The Mechanics song Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) from around the same time period...
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He is waiting for the Noon event!
It’s particularly easy to predict an apocalypse. It’s the true “arc of history”. And it’s always right around the corner unless people, with help from above, work hard to protect against it.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Yesterday evening Mrs. ArGee had arranged for some guy who does estate sales to take (as donations) anything that wasn’t already spoken for. He took a lot of stuff. In the end he insisted Mrs. ArGee take some cash, which tells me he wasn’t just helping us unload stuff. There were some things we gave him that were worth money. It’s nice that either he or his wife had enough of a conscience to give some to us.
Of course, it complicates the bookkeeping if she adds it to the estate. But he offered it so we could “donate it” so she’ll probably do that.
Today’s Wordle solution took longer to come to mind than it should have.
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Good morning. It’s Tuesday here, too. Yesterday’s efforts took a long time to come to nothing, but it’s a new day to make new errors and omissions.
I’m going to Walmart.
Happy Tuesday... Not much going on...
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Good Morning!
They foreguess some rain for you tomorrow afternoon... we will see...
Another ‘sacrificial’ row two pays off...
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It reminds me of one of my Physics teacher asking us, “If a horse strains for an hour to move a 1,000 pound block of stone, and it doesn’t move it one inch, has the horse done any work?” The correct answer from a Physics perspective is “no”. The teacher then said, “Try convincing the horse of that.”
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