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.
I know the feeling. Customers never know what they want until they see it. So all that “signed off documentation” becomes really good bird-cage liner.
It’s annoying if your desire is to move on, but there’s not much we can do.
Same.
Thanks!
I bet that she will get more used to those floors the longer that she has to walk on them...
Good one! 🤣
The way we used ta wind up a good ZOT! way back when...
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Are there any recent “zotted troll” threads in the library for
Refrying ……??? As a move to???
There are many with a post count in the 6000 - 7000 range. We could migrate to any of them.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
We are in our new/old digs and working through the boxes. We’ve got most of the furniture that we want to use uncovered. We need to go through our basement to rearrange the stuff we’re keeping for young ArGee, in case she ever buys a house.
I did a beter on Wordle today than I did over the weekend.
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Good Monday Morning All!
Pretty quiet weekend here... getting ready for a foreguessed week of rain that starts on Wednesday... 🤞🏻
Glad that the move and travel went well!
I had some tough Wordle sledding on the weekend as well, better today...
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The good old days...
Happy Monday.
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“refried troll” could be what’s for dinner, gals & guys. May the Gals & Guys decide.
Good Morning All!
He looks fairly reliable...
Looks like Cloudfare is down and causing issues... apparently NYT doesn’t use it...
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A bit of a Christmas tree working here...
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
What could possibly go wrong?
Things are slowly getting to a new normal here. The Princess has found some places where she’s confident in her footing. Mrs. ArGee set up an entryway rug for the “mud room/wash room” that we usually use for going in and out. Twice she caught The Princess trying to back out of the room and said, “There’s a carpet!” The Princess immediately turned around and walked out. She hasn’t needed reminding since.
It does make me wonder what else we say that she understands.
I have to start making a list of things that need fixing. Then I need to decide if I can fix them myself. Finding people to do work around here is difficult.
Wordle went OK today.
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