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.
I think you’re right.
I’m leaving room for the emotional toil of dealing with her rapidly declining parents and then their deaths. But part of me faces the time back in the Wildlands with a bit of trepidation.
Eh... Forgot... I’m on call this weekend... House on the Rock will have to wait to next week... Supposed to be a pretty ride out there and the fall colors are starting to come through this area...
It will probably get back to normal once you are settled in there and go through at least one year of all of the holidays and birthdays and various anniversaries…
I had to look that up... sounded vaguely familiar... I think that I first heard about it when studying Frank Lloyd Wright many decades ago... a bit of a controversy over it with Jordan...
It looks like a cool place to visit!
100% Wal Drug style tourist trap... but... yeah. Been wanting to go for years. I like in MN, so it’s not like it’s that far of a trip. A bit over 4 hours according to Google maps.
Wall. Live.
My only excuse is I’m still on my first cup of covfefee...
I guess trying to do a support call while rockin’ down the highway isn’t such a great idea. Bummer, though.
I’m still thinking about whether it would work to chew the coffee grounds like tobacco.
Chocolate-covered espresso beans.
They have caffiene pouches similar to the old tobacco pouches that you can stuff in your lip and chew on... Grinds and Smokey Mountian are the two I know of off the top of my head.
Grinds because I saw them partner up with Black Rifle Coffee Company...
I have proposed those from time to time.
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Good morning. Happy Monday!
That’s quite a mug shot. What did Kitteh do?
We had an uneventful weekend making sure the house is ready for today’s closing.
Young ArGee called this morning. Someone bashed in the passenger window of her car. I’m not sure if it was front or back. I assumed front. Anyway, she doesn’t think anything was taken.
I got another X/6 in yesterday’s Wordle after taking 5 to get Saturday’s. I did better today.
Wordle 1,563 4/6
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Good Monday Morning!
It looks like a sunny start to the week...
At least today’s word was a ‘normal’ one... the three prior were pretty fringe...
Wordle 1,563 3/6*
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That's kind of creepy... was it in a parking lot?
Yes. She’s in a pretty large apartment complex. But there are lots of other cars around hers. Hers was the one that was hit.
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