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.
We used to get reminders when we heard our dogs knocking over the neighbor’s cans. (That was before these huge bins.) Then we’d have to go get our dogs and yell at them and pick up the neighbors’ garbage.
Not my fault!
It is picked up pretty early here... would be too much of a rush in the AM...
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
It was almost warm walking The Princess this morning - 50 fs.
We got the furniture B-I-L used out of the house last night. We also got word yesterday that the buyer’s mortgage is finalized. We’re now just waiting for a closing date. The only reason to go there now is to keep the lawn in shape.
We’re still debating putting a hitch on one of the cars. I need to press a little harder on an estimate for a tranny cooler. Nobody is calling back.
I had a decent Wordle today.
Wordle 1,545 3/6
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Good Morning,
And the beat goes on...
Decent Wordle here too...
Wordle 1,545 3/6*
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That’s what I did wrong!
Who knew, right?
Poor James could have been so much taller.
You laundered him in HOT water?????!!!!!!
Don’t tell me, he’s very white as well because you faded him, right?
He’s pasty because he spends too much time in his room.
Probably not!
🤣
Good morning. Happy Friday!
Dazn’t come in. I iz dangerus.
Yesterday was a quiet evening. I discovered that Home Depot rents cargo vans locally with unlimited mileage so that’s probably going to be how I’ll get Young ArGee’s inherited stuff out to her. $139/day is a pretty good option.
Wordle was decent today.
Wordle 1,546 3/6
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Good Friday Morning!
Looks like he has already got a marshmallow!
Glad that I went to town yesterday, so that I don’t have to go today.... the stops seemed endless...
Pretty good on the Wordle front...
Wordle 1,546 3/6*
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I think that’s the reflection off a tag on his collar. He has a skull, though.
I’ve had my new Honda for two weeks, and there’s already almost 1,000 miles on it. I drive a lot.
Good luck with that. I brought some empty boxes home from the food pantry yesterday, so I can give more stuff away.
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