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.
Jetson One. Heck yeah. As I continue to drop my BMI, I should get a better power/weight ratio. More incentive to stay the course. :-)
I never got a mountable one, just a handheld…. Haven’t seen it in a while, will have to look for it….
Remarkable!
Been playing with the phone app on my Android. Can connect to the scope over wifi... scope has a builtin wifi hotspot with limited range...
Mulitple heat map modes, reticle, ballistic comp, range finder... 8 hour run time... All for about a 1/3rd the price I expected to pay. This one had really good reviews.
I’ll see if I can’t post some pics up later or tomorrow...
Wow! Way more advanced than the one I have…. somewhere….
Trees look interesting as well...
It has 4 different color modes including Predator vision... :-)
No Morning Kitteh on Friday and Saturday: I'll be out of town.
Whoa, that’s weird!
Stay Safe
Thanks. My husband and I are going on a kayak trip on Friday morning, if all goes well. We were going to do this back in August, but there was flooding. We’ll see if it works out this time! If not, we’ll have a pleasant day doing something else.
Enjoy your trip.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
We had warmer temps with clouds and rain this morning.
We’re doing lots of “last things in this area” now. I have my last haircut with the shop I’ve been using this weekend. Mrs. ArGee is going to her last lunch with her high school friend. We’ve already celebrated our last drive down the long road with nothing to stop for but a 30 mph speed limit. The town is nice enough, but I don’t think I’ll miss living here.
Wordle was a bit of a shock today.
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Enjoy your trip!
Good Morning!
Still chilly from the overnight low of about 42° F, high only in the mid 60s today... they guess that we will warm back starting on Monday... to more seasonal temps...
I had the same shocking outcome today...
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Happy Thorsday...
Weird nights sleep, feel exhausted this morning. Might have been better off just staying up all night.
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The signature on the trees was the most surprising to me when I first got it...
I should probably look into one. Once the next ice age starts from all this globull warming a thermal imager will be really handy.
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