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.
Interesting... I can’t recall ever physically plugging my iPhone into any of my Macs...
It has been pretty warm here as well, I think that you may be getting some cooler weather soon...
We stepped out to look at it last night, it certainly was bright! It was too late to get that real pronounced effect when it was lower to the horizon... meant to look then, but forgot...
Ah, the second Monday of the week cat...
Good Morning!
Finally got the rest of the crushed limestone moved into a pile where I will need it... At a certain point I decided that there was enough on the pile so I graded the rest into the driveway...
This one was very elusive, I feel I got lucky...
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Traffic this morning has the same scowl on my face... but my goatee is trimmed a bit better.
It’s Tuesday... At least it’s not Monday...
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Getting that #2 letter locked in didn’t leave me with a lot of options... Just kept typing random crap in until I had an “Ah HA!” moment...
I’m just hoping I can remember my #4 guess if I ever need it again. I should keep a list of the words I think of in specific situations that don’t win and haven’t already won so next time I get “ends in this letter and contains that letter” I don’t have to start from scratch.
If I understand the Appleverse correctly, that’s because device sharing is automatic between all of the devices you have currently set up in iCloud; if your photos are on one device, they’re accessible on all of them if you have an Internet connection.
I don’t want my life in some corporate “cloud”; I want it on my device, on my home computer, or — ultimately — in the RAID array on my Network-Attached Storage [Synology DS713+] that lives under my own roof. I CAN set up my NAS to be available on the internet so I can use it as my personal “cloud storage” no matter where I am, but that’s a bridge I haven’t chosen to cross, yet.
The need to be able to tether to my PC via USB is less imperative, now, because the “MyFiles” explorer app on Android now includes a “Network Storage” selection such that I can browse my NAS files from my phone when I’m at home on my house WiFi. So I’m able to move photos and such off of my phone into the safety of my NAS folders without being USB connected. But if I want to move lots of files, connecting via USB is still better, because the file manipulation tools are easier to use on the computer than on the phone.
So you’re telling me that these files I’m browsing now AREN’T from your NAS?
(j/k)
Yes, after your row2, it was kind of a “brute force” scenario….
That all makes sense…. Our family is about a 50-50 split…. Some use ICloud and don’t worry about it…. the others insist on local storage for everything….
[my best Bugs Bunny] Eeeeeehhhh.... COULD be...
Another beautiful day around The Bay. The fog, this morning, was shoved up against The Golden Gate like a cat watching a canary through a screen door. IT’s READY to get into Fall mode, but Mister Sunshine isn’t finished, yet, so it’s a daily, thermodynamic Battle of the Titans.
Again, yesterday’s puzzle today... Maybe I need to just refresh the page every time before I begin.
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I hope the day turned out reasonably okay.
I saw it this morning when it was still dark. Tonight’s moon is bright, as well. We were out for drinks with Tom the Son and had a nice view from the picnic tables in front of the bar.
It’s still partly cloudy, though.
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