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.
you got post 5000 ... congratulations ... I was waiting for it but missed it ...
Oh, that hadn’t crossed my mind. You could be right about that.
If ya blink ...
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
We had a cloudy, rainy day yesterday and it looks like more is on tap today. It was almost 60 fs when I walked The Princess and the guess is for a high of 68. So I guess the cloudy skies are part of more fall-ish weather.
Still no closing date. I hope that bank exec isn’t waiting for their partner to set a date for something so they can plan around that. The rest of us have lives, too.
Finally, a bit of a break on the Wordle. Although this is the second day in a row my starter word yielded nothing.
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Good Midweek Morning!
The last guess I saw late last night said 1.63” of rain for us... this morning the guess is 0.00”... sigh... at least one version of future radar supports that... oh well...
So-so on the Wordle front... the ‘sacrificial’ word on row 2 didn’t pay many dividends this time...
Wordle 1,558 4/6*
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Happy Wednesday...
Got my Monster-in-a-box animatronic finished last night. Looks pretty good. I’d put pressure adjustment valves on the pneumatics so that I could better control the force of the air pistons. Didn’t both trying to wire in my smoke machine... I just set it to an automatic cycle.
Now... what do I do next... :-)
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Ah, thankyouverymush.
It’s a good thing you don’t have to rely on cisterns for your water supply.
So far today we only have gloom, no precipitation.
I would not surprise resident females with it to see how good it is. Just my $.02.
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Actually some in the area do... they collect rain water in large 500 or 1,000 gallon tanks... we have a well and don’t do any rainwater collection, but I would like to setup for at least some of that at some point...
Now the guess has changed: 1.32” Heavy Thunderstorms....
I am currently living in a female-less state of domestic tranquility. Just me here now. Had a fallin out with my children and it could be years before I see them again. If ever...
It is what it is.
However, my parents have expressed an interest in me bringing the Box down to their place. They get a LOT of kids coming through for Trick or Treat and they normally decorate heavily for Halloween.
They can’t believe that they were caught doing...
I hear ya’ on the “domestic tranquility” thing.
My theory is that God created marriage so that men would have a means of keeping their egos in check. Out in the world of business and commerce they might come to the conclusion that they are capable. The wife helps them to reset.
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Rain, rain go away.
Zzeeman wants to play.
Maybe travel down his way.
After all of the back and forth, we ended up with 0.23”.... better than nothing....
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