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.
Do they have cameras or any security guards?
Neither one. And this particular lot has a shopping complex at one end and a car repair shop at the other. So it’s common for non-residents to walk through it.
Good morning. It’s drizzly here, but at least it’s not hot.
Hopefully her insurance will cover it....
Right, and the good thing is that the storm will head east out to sea and not impact SC....
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Yes, it seems like it won’t be much. The state declared an emergency, just in case, but 2”-3” of rain is forecast over a period of a couple of days.
I’m sure it will. Hopefully her rates won’t skyrocket.
Horse no kau kau cow kau kau — Cow kau kau cow kau kau
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
That doesn’t look like the greatest pillow.
Apparently, breaking in car windows in the city where young ArGee lives is a thing. On top of everything else yesterday she got a nail in one of her tires. The local tire guy patched that for her.
The closing is done. Mrs. ArGee is picking up her check today. After that there’s nothing left to do but the paperwork and arranging to file the late mother’s taxes for 2025.
I finally feel like I’m capable at Wordle again.
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Good morning, Nully.
Did you take the wrong pills this morning?
Or is this one of those “Klattu Baratta Nikto” things that I just don’t know about?
Good morning, Nully.
Did you take the wrong pills this morning?
Or is this one of those “Klattu Baratta Nikto” things that I just don’t know about?
Looks like Bermuda may be Imelda’s target...
Hopefully not... 🤞🏻
Strange place to rest your chin...
That is great! It was a lot of work, but everything is wrapped up now!
Good Morning!
We got sad news last evening, one of our SILs has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease... don’t know any details, but it looks like some rough sledding for her and Mrs. zz’s brother...
At least vowel elimination can be helpful...
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Took yesterday off to go fishing with my Dad on the Mississippi. Small mout bass. Caught 8 that were keeps and a dozen more that weren’t. A couple of suckers that put up a good fight, but get tossed back... and a good size cat fish that was also tossed back as he wouldn’t fit in the cooler...
Back to business today though. Happy Tuesday!
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