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.
Good Morning!
Arthur seems to be adjusting to the time change better than we expected... that’s good because we both struggle with it...
Row two gave me what I needed... but it took a while to get to row three...
Wordle 1,599 3/6*
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Buying lottery ticket later...
Wordle 1,599 2/6
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Weird...
Cold nad sunny... with more cold on the way...
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Buy two!
Not my only Deuce... but this one was a surprise.
Client I’m working with today had today’s word at top of mind as they are a high-end party and tent rental company.
Ahh, that makes sense!
I was fixated on words ending with the last two letters after row two...
If you’re in the NY area, Mega Millions is at an all-time high.
We have Mega Millions and Powerball here in MN.
Vlad, James, and I were #132, 133, and 134 at our precinct at 2:00 p.m. Two town council seats and a referendum on a 5% tax on short-term rentals. Based on our sample, the referendum will fail 2 to 1.
“California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission was established by voters through Proposition 11, approved on November 4, 2008, with 54.3% support, transferring authority over state legislative district boundaries from the legislature to an independent citizen body for the first time following the 2010 census.) Proposition 20, passed on November 2, 2010, with 61.5% approval, extended this responsibility to congressional districts as well.) The commission draws boundaries for 52 U.S. House districts, 40 state Senate seats, 80 state Assembly seats, and 4 Board of Equalization districts, adhering to criteria including equal population, compactness, contiguity, preservation of communities of interest, and avoidance of favoring incumbents or parties.”
[EXCERPT from https://grokipedia.com/page/Redistricting_commission]
And it’s been working.
TODAY, Californians vote on Craven Newsome’s PROP 50, which would throw redistricting back into the hands of the craven politicians we — for good reason, and by a supermajority vote — took them out of 15 years ago.
Sunny, blue skies belie the political storm clouds.
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Today’s word wasn’t unusual, but I guess I had to take a roundabout way to get to it. Much like I took a roundabout way to work trying to avoid as much stopped traffic as possible. As I mentioned to a colleague this morning: it’s not the work I do that pushes me toward retirement; it’s not wanting to deal with traffic, anymore, that’s the dominant factor.
Wordle 1,596 5/6
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Hopefully Prop 50 fails….
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Good Midweek Morning!
We attended a birthday celebration for a gent that turned 90 yesterday, he only had one candle on his cake as well! (And he was smiling a lot more!)
Been on a pretty good streak... wondering why I thought of the very obscure word for row two, instead of the much more common, correct word on row three...
Wordle 1,600 3/6*
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Good morning, everyone. Happy Humph Day!
HUMPH!
That’s all I have to say about yesterday.
I hope kitteh doesn’t get singed by his birthday candles.
I had my last dental cleaning up here this morning. Everything looks good.
I had a Wordle surprise this morning. Not quite enough of one to cause me to buy a lottery ticket, but still ...
Wordle 1,600 2/6
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Good show!
Good Wednesday Morning...
Wordle 1,600 3/6
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Meh...
I’ve done that before. “Why did I guess that strange word before this normal one?”
I suspect it’s because I’m strange.
Another of those 2nd guesses.
CLOSE, but no banana!
I suspect that it is the same here….
When you hit 4/5... it isn’t much of a guess at that point. :-)
I’ve been known to take a surprisingly long time to get the last letter.
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