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.
Not quite a “buy a lotto ticket” day... but good enough.
Pray for me... heading to a client site on the South side of Minneapolis... Law Firm... Good people, but sketchy as sh*t for the neighborhood.
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I don’t think that it is the same starter... I used a ‘sacrificial’ (i.e., already used) word for row two... it paid off...
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Prayer up! Hopefully you are in a vehicle with doors today...
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Mine just had a different initial letter, that I had to use in the guess as it was a yellow letter in row 1...
Both worked well!
My Caddy. Which sucks, because it’s cool and Sunny out right now...
But yeah... Just a block away is a Catholic charity with a homeless encampment just across the street... Saw at least two people on a fentanyl “nod” when I rolled through there at 9AM...
I am not afraid of the street folks... but I do feel a large degree of disgust...
Apropos of nothing, I’m reminded of Meat Loaf’s assertion:
There ain’t no Coup De Ville
Hidin’ at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.
Fall is falling, as is evident by the Spirit Halloween stores now staffing up in their annually-leased spaces, and whispers of pumpkin spice scattered about.
Trees around my office are beginning to shed their drier leaves, and yellow is creeping into prominence among the deciduous species.
I’m looking forward to restocking my Egg Nog Liqueur supply; it really is a tasty after-dinner coffee creamer.
I will note one further trait of the African Sumac: the wood is very wet, very soft and green, which makes it very easy going when it comes to cutting it back. This also means, if it drops a limb, it’s not a sudden break and a half ton of falling material you’ll be talking about with your Auto Insurance Broker, but rather a slow sagging, and the formation of a “green stick” fracture where it’s failing.
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For Wordle today, well... I had it, but then I didn’t have it, but then I had it, again.
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I seem to remember Linus van Pelt once explaining to Charlie Brown that fall is called fall because leaves fall. And winter is called winter because the snow winters.
At least, that’s how Linus understands it.
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Not far from the truth at all... not at all...
Seems that almost all large cities in this country have these issues....
We have a fair amount of leaves down... just because they tend to dry up and turn brown this time of year and hit the ground... but it is a sign that Fall is on the way... don’t really get much in the way of Fall Colors down here...
I used to hang out in Minneapolis back in High School and again after I got out of the Marines.
First Ave. Uncle Hugo’s. Acme Comedy Club. Etc...
Now? I don’t like being down there even in broad daylight beucase it’s all just so... gross.
I see the truck pulling up outside my window and text Mrs. ArGee. There are only two entrances to the building over here, ours and the one below us. So I have a 50-50 shot. Probably higher, though.
I spent a lifetime in Minneapolis one weekend. It was 6 below. I braved the Mall of the Americas anyway just to see it. Thanks, but no thanks.
And to think I almost accepted a job there before choosing Houston.
In days gone by many cities had really nice places to visit... I never had an interest in being a city dweller, but visiting used to be nice...
So did it go to the right entrance?
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