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.
We don’t have any neighbors to worry about (cows don’t count!), but we rarely have very dry (not humid) outside air in the evenings or early mornings...
Low 50s after sunup this morning. It’ll break 70 today, but not by much. Summer’s gone.
Make the most of this year’s dwindling stock of nice weather weekends.
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Today’s puzzle ended with a multiple choice quiz.
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I hope it works out (or your parents decide against it).
Looks like the West Coast is in for a cool spell...
Those are hard to find!
😂
They get bored with the packaging and tear it up.
Cool, doesnt seem like a good time for persistent unnecessary distraction.
I think my Mom and I wore my Dad out... but yeah... It was a lot of fun and they both had a good time. Mom was a little disappointed that the one place selling lefse had run out just before we got there... She wanted to put her recipe up against theirs...
Maybe next year. :-)
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