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 !!! Glad to know all is well and good in Your neck of the woods/forest.
Appreciate the calm kittah this AM. Ducks definitely have a purpose. If the kittah had been hugging a duck billed platypus on a porpoise, I would have sensed there was a message of true purpose. <—— A boring joke with porpoise. lol
All is well in this neck of the woods/ forest our family calls home, and am most grateful to God for the calm/boring life we lead. No lead is flying and God has been once more been extremely gracious unto our family and I pray everyday his graciousnesses will be continually bestowed up on our family, our Nation and our Nation’s People. May thus be so, in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Usually packages get delivered to the correct entrance.
Many times when I text Mrs. ArGee she replies that it’s not for us.
w00t!
Good morning. Happy Friday!
We managed to get a lot of stuff to our garage so B-I-L’s stuff can fit in his storage. It looked like it was going to rain on us, and REALLY rain, but it waited.
The movers B-I-L have hired will bring two of the heaviest pieces to our garage for us while getting all his stuff into storage for his later move. We’ll use the truck we’ve rented for the rest and be done this weekend.
Fridays are becoming bad Wordle days for me.
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Oh, I misunderstood... for some reason I thought that they were bringing your rental truck over to you...
Ditto.
Amen!
Good Friday Morning!
Just like that, another week has flashed past... Since I didn’t go yesterday, I will have to spend most of today shopping in town...
So-so Wordle today, could have been worse...
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Mrs. ArGee likes to say, “Can things get any worse?”
I reply, “Questions that you don’t want to know the answer to you shouldn’t ask.”
Happily in to Fridat we go... Sunny and... wait... 48 degrees? Already? I need more Summer dang it!!!
Ugh...
Anyway...
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It’s been a little chilly here, too, although not in the 40s very often.
Fortunately for me, I don’t try to get to the pool very often.
Very good advice!
I suspect that you will get some more warm days before the real Fall sets in.
That’s a good one! 🤣
“Flashed past” indeed. That Monday holiday was certainly an accelerant.
Felt like I came it this one from the wrong end, but wrangled it out, anyway.
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It certainly was!
I did that for Shannon.
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