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.
Thank you.
If today is any indication, they may be chilly travels, too.
I can imagine better places to be in cold, wet, and icky than a lake.
But those toys ain’t going to winterize themselves.
w00t!
kewl, as they used to say.
Thank you.
Talk about sneaking up on one.
I’m happy with how it turned out. I’ve seen others where they use electric motors, have the fogger inside the box, cut a “jail” grill in the front and have glowing eyes peer out...
Not bad for a first attempt at an animatronic like this. :-)
It looks great, nice work!
Next year I plan on doing a “drop spider” on a self-retracting line. They have “prop drop” units pre-built... but I want to do another Arduino controller project... Much cheaper than buying off the shelf components.
Oh yeah, the animatronic looks good too, I was commenting on the armor vest!
Cool patterns!
My granddaughter has started whispering to her Voices, just like her Uncle Patrick.
Cool!
“I can’t imagine a cat sitting still for that.”
MY cat would. You give her a good scratching and she’ll stay as long as you keep it up.
Rain is gone. Temperatures are balmy but the breeze is... crisp with oceanic chill.
The distant rumble of The Holiday Season vortex is already discernible above the din of daily routine, and the psychological bracing is already being put in place.
Today’s Wordle beat me; I ran outta runway. Got down to two possibilities and picked the OTHER one.
Ah, thank you!
Been there. Done that.
We need a T-Shirt.
That happens to me often!
Hehhe... Thanks. :-)
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