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.
Right, it is the first day of Fall! 🍁
That explains the weather.
Now to avoid Bugs Bunny’s wish to have a nice fall.
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Agreed... Let any trips taken this fall be pleasent ones...
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Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Iz library open?
We didn’t get a closing date, yesterday. Maybe today. I still have no idea what the hold-up is.
An unforced error on guess 3 sent me on to guess 4 today.
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Good morning. Best of luck getting a closing date. Must be nerve-wracking waiting for the other shoe to drop.
We have Forestry this morning. Days with trees are better days.
I've been wondering what the delay has been...
Days with trees are definitely good days.
One of the reasons we want a closing date is that we had to get temporary insurance for an estate home and the insurance company has asked us to remove all tree limbs hanging over the house. Allstate never asked for that. And I don’t think it would be good for the tree.
We have to comply by Oct 24. We’re hoping to have dropped that insurance by then.
Good Morning!
Still on track for some rain tomorrow... guesses range from 1/4” to 1+”.... we will see....
Thought that I had this one on 3, but I didn’t...
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At the tone, the time will be 7:56 CST.
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Ah, the memories. Calling AT&T for the time. I was just talking to someone yesterday about party lines (which she was too young to know anything about). Phones that were attached to the wall so you didn’t have to hunt for them, with the added advantage that they worked when the power was out. Dialing “1” for a long-distance number. Collect calls.
Times have certainly changed.
On the other hand, flip-phones are coming back but with lots of flip options.
Good luck!
The word is it’s the bank lawyer who is holding everything up. He/she is being appropriately nagged.
I’m sure the delay has no downside for him/her, resulting in not caring.
Today is Rosh Hashanah. I was wondering if he/she is Jewish.
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