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 kinda thought so... Going with a black/white/silver outfit for this... Bought I think the antiqued brown they did on the original brings out the knotwork better.
It has a LotR Rohan kind of eel to it.
May be having a stoke... Sorry...
“I kinda thought so... Going with a black/white/silver outfit for this... But I think the antiqued brown they did on the original brings out the knotwork better.
It has a LotR Rohan kind of feel to it.”
That sounds really nice.
Good Friday Morning!
Without taking extraordinary measures, it looks like this afternoon may be the last pool day for the season... well maybe Monday afternoon to give it a good cleaning...
I got no yellow clues on this one...
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Sunny but still cool Friday... Wrap up my work week and see what the weekend brings...
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Hopefully you will have good weather for your winterizing projects....
Best wishes for a good afternoon in the pool!
Poor little kittah has a worry.
First morning with the car completely covered in dewfall. Been some the last few days. This morning, it was drenched.
The route ya take matters. Lotta choices to guess from at the end.
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He’s worried because you’re looking at him. That might mean you want to use your bed. I remember seeing that expression from Jake.
Mid-60’s today. Mid-50’s Sat and Sun.
Think I’m still going to ride my bike up there though. I have some “cold weather gear” I can break out and not freeze to death on the way up and back again.
Luckily, nothing we’re doing up there requires getting IN to the water.
Although, we had some storms the other night and I lost another tree in the back yard. I’ll have half a days worth of chainsaw time I need to find time for...
It was pretty nice, water temp got up to 82° F... we’re a little spoiled and don’t like to get in if the water temp is below 80° F....
We’ve had a few mornings where the dew point and temperature collide... not many yet, more to come...
As long as it stays sunny... or at least not rainy, it shouldn’t be too bad... yeah, I would guess that it is too late in the season to be IN the water...
Try the neighbors’ ...
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