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.
Nice job on the Wordle.
Danke... Still using my same starter word. Didn’t leave a lot of options for the second guess.
Hi T-C
Ive terrible phone connections with AT&T & unfortunately I don’t get online as much as I would like even to my own thread the train -Trump train.
But in browsing latest post the past couple of months I’ve noticed the absence of one of your regulars. I’m hoping she’s OK - monkey face
In pasr every time I do latest post search…. It would be one of her posts to someone else or someone to her.
Yeah, I followed your thread on &! off over the years. It’s fun how you hop around places
my time to participate anywhere is so limited
if you know and don’t mind sharing, I’d appreciate it.
Dolly
Hi, Dolly. I’m sorry to tell you that our friend Monkey Face passed away earlier this year. I don’t have the date. Someone else on the thread may be able to point you to the obituary.
March 19, give or take. It was fairly sudden, but she had been failing drastically for a few weeks prior.
I hadn’t remembered it was so close to my mother-in-law’s passing.
12 knots might be under it’s own power... however a storm could have exceded that limit and possible have been the cause of the damage...
They were supposedly in the Pacific, but the island in the Atlantic...
Bermuda Triangle activity? Worm hole between the coast of Kalifornistan and Sand Cay?
Only a few weeks after my mother died (Feb. 2), too.
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