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.
Yeah, having snow accumulate on your fallen leaves can certainly stop your cleanup....
Thanks ArGee!!! That photo made me LOL.
Apparently, my BiL bought a used DR tow-behind leaf bagger. Appearntly, the hose from the vacuum motor to the collection bin needs some repair... but he said I could borrow it. I offered to fix it in repayment...
That ought to help immensely...
Sounds like a win-win deal!
Happy Monday All...
Taking today off that handle some family things... but still had time for this.
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Good Monday Morning!
We finally got our rain... 3.5+” Friday night into Saturday...
All of the yellow squares one confounded me...
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I made the trip to The Wildlands OK. My back is a little stiff from loading and unloading furniture and boxes.
It's gotten cold here. And our heater is acting up. It couldn't wait another 3 weeks for us to move. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
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Good that your trip went well!
Glad to hear you arrived safely!
Bit of a chilly weekend but slated to get back into the 80’s mid-week.
Trying tonight to appreciably finish a crafting project with one of my yoots for Friday’s festivities.
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Somewhere in the background Douglas Adams is smiling about today’s answer.
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I remember that strip.
“I’m going to go look those words up!”
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Kitteh looks like me at my keyboard in the afternoon. I wonder if anyone has baked kitteh thinking into their AI algorithms.
It’s been cold here in the mornings. We had 30 fs yesterday and 32 fs today. Highs are still nice in the 50s.
B-I-L is coming this weekend to repack boxes has has in storage. He’ll be staying with us since the estate home is sold. He’s scheduled to leave on Thursday.
It’s almost November - our last month “temporarly” here!
Wordle was OK today. Nothing special.
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Enjoy your warmup, we are heading into a cool down...
Good Morning!
It will be good to get back home soon!
Thought that I had it in three...
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I wonder if you and I made the same 3 guess. I had a 5th guess in case it was needed.
Could be, I don’t think that there were many left...
Spent 6 hours yesterday running a DR lawn vacuum and trying to find places to stash the collected leaves. Glad I pushed it past dark because it is raining now... What used to take me a week took less than a day.
Now I think I need to buy one of these darn things for my own use. It’s heavy and not easily loaded into my truck.
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Ugh.
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