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.
Hopefully it isn't too windy over the weekend...
w00t!
Maybe scientists need to come up with a creature that eats dead leaves.
There’s goats... But we’re not allowed goats for some reason. Chickens, sure... limited to 4 cows or 2 horses... None of which I have...
I remember having to learn a song called “Bill Grogan’s Goat” waaaaaaay back when in my piano lessons. It seemed to be a troublesome animal.
DWI takes its toll... 😮
Good morning. Happy Friday!
This evening I’ll rent another van from Home Depot to drive a bunch of stuff to The Wildlands. That will get rid of a lot of packed boxes and furniture in our “living room” that has been stressing Mrs. ArGee. She really doesn’t like clutter.
So, tonight will be loading the van and tomorrow/Sunday will be driving. What fun! It’s about 6 hours one way.
Wordle once again bit me with getting 2 letters right almost right away and taking a long time to get the rest.
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Safe travels, there and back!
Good Friday Morning!
Here’s to hoping that the guessers are right and we get our much needed rain.... 🤞🏻
I got lucky the past couple of days and had another letter to serve as a ‘limiter’ on the possibilities of those tough two letter combos...
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Very true, very true...
Thank you.
Hopefully I can avoid stupid rallies and ICE protests.
25F outside my door this AM... Sun’s up and shining brightly going to 50 later this afternoon. Halloweed parade tomorrow... 56F on tap for that.
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Hopefully you did a cold-weather test on your animatronics.
Wow, that’s quite a nip in the morning air!
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Yeah... We’ve had snow this early, so thankfully that isn’t anywhere in the forecast yet. Which is good as my ash, oak, and the rest of my maple trees are dropping leaves right now...
Did I mention I hate this time of year? “Oooh... it’s so pretty with the changing colors!!!”
Bah-humbug... They are DYING and making a mess as the weather turns COLD and SH*TTY for the next 5 months...
As for animatonrics... I only hav ethe two of them right now. One is electric and the other pneumatic... No gear oil or grease to gum things up...
Just ghosts that might not like the cold. ;)
Bah! If they don't like it, they can switch from sheets to blankets...
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