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.
Some sad news, in case anyone hasn’t seen the thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4350272/posts
Good morning. We have two open town council seats. Both incumbents are running for reelection. They’re okay, but I’m going to vote for one incumbent and one new guy, just for variety.
We don’t have any local candidates, just a bunch of “constitutional amendments” that shouldn’t be constitutional amendments...
w00t!
That *is* sad. Thanks for sharing.
I’m with you. Shake it up!
Who needs a wheelchair when they have wings?
Happy Monday... post-Halloween blues...
Weather is getting colder by the day. We have snow on tap later this week. I’m not ready for it... emotionally.
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Very true!
We have been enjoying fires at night around here.
The kittahs are upset because we put a heat shield under the wood stove and they can no longer lounge there.
We put the shield in because they were crisping their fur last winter. You would think the smell of scorched fur would be a sign to move. Not our little smooth brains.
Well, how can you be toasty if you don’t get a little toasted?
It was not an issue until Andre got so pudgy but still insisted on slotting himself into the very back area where he no longer fits.
Because of the heat shield he not only no longer fits in the spot but it is blocked off.
He is not taking kindly to this change.
Our Ginger OverCat has spent the past couple of weeks in a royal huff.
The prophecy is true
We had a cat who scorched the whiskers off one side of her face getting too close to the fire.
I do not object however.
With cat draped over shoulder, cat on lap, dog on feet and other dog pressed up against leg I am nice and warm as well.
:)
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Everybody wants to be a cat.
Because a cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s at.
- Abraham deLacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O’Malley
It’s election day in New York. I’ll be praying for the City. I’m going to go vote here, but most of the candidates are Republican and Conservative (2 parties, same candidate listed twice) so it won’t have much impact. There are two initiatives but they’re not too controversial.
I stared at what I knew and didn’t know for today’s Wordle a long time before I could even come up with an option for guess 4.
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