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.
Thank you.
C00l...
Awww. So cute. The little paw pads got cold and he detoured.
Cats don’t like cold, wet paws.
Maryann (one of the barn cats) will hitch a ride on one of the cows when there is snow on the ground.
Heaven forbid her majesty's toe beans get cold.
Aw, that’s nice of the cow.
"Don't know. All we can do is watch."
Well played!
Good morning. Happy Monday!
It’s sunny here, which is a nice start to Thanksgiving week.
Yesterday young ArGee said she might want to come visit for Thanksgiving. It will be nice to see her, but Mrs. ArGee now has to do some more shopping.
The trash and recycling trucks come today. We produced so much last week that we have a couple of bags for both all ready to go into the empty bins. Hopefully that will get back to normal soon.
I had a decent start to the Wordle week. I won’t coun’t yesterday’s 5/6 as the start. :)
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Now, that’s the way to sleep in!
Good Monday Morning Al!
Round 2 of our rain should start in a couple hours, it is cheerfully anticipated...
It will be nice to see Young ArGee for Thanksgiving, is it a long drive for her?
So-so Wordle yesterday and today, had another 2-spot on Saturday...
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It’s a Monday. 35 here, but Sunny.
Had kind of a weird ride yesterday. Still had a gallon of gas in the tank, Sun was going down and it was getting cold quick... Downhill coming up on a curve so throttled back to decelerate and gave it just a bit of front brake, and the engine quits on me.
Grabbed the clutch and gave it throttle... nothing... Popped the clutch and the engine backfired and started running again.
Did this twice.
Stopped to fill up the tank, Sun completely down and temps dropping in to the 30’s... Didn’t happen again all the way home... It was concerning.
Plus, I broke a highway peg. Just resting my foot up on it and bam... gone.
Nice ride otherwise.
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Good that you made it home! Some type of contaminant in the fuel system?
It’s concerning when an engine doesn’t behave as it should. I assume the fuel line/filter are all in good shape.
We’re about 4 hours closer to young ArGee than we were before.
After research... possibly ignition sensor. $200 fix and 15 minutes with a 8mm socket.
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