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. Happy Humph Day.
M-I-L didn’t sleep at all last night. We don’t know yet if the caregiver gave her the 8pm tranq. After a few nights of good behavior we hopefully aren’t setting up a new routine.
Most of the snow we had is gone. Only the piles left by the plows remain. It’s guessed to be warm again today, but cold weather is coming.
I got 4 again on Wordle today. It took a while before I could find any letters actually in the word to work with.
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Good Midweek Morning!
We forgot how “interesting” it is having a new puppy in the house...
Wordle par for the course... but it took a while...
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Watch your step...
Gets my vote!
Good morning. I hope you had a good night.
I slept fairly well, except for the gap after three hours where I was awake for 35 minutes. Stupid, but the pain pills wear off and I wake up.
Since I didn’t get any filing done yesterday, I really need to do it today. I need the space! Maybe I can get the desk clean, as well! Good idea.
I finished with the Nativity yesterday, and it gave me incentive to work on the other project that has been sitting in the box through two moves. I think it would never have survived, otherwise, even though I have a plastic case for it.
After Christmas, then!
We got 38° right now, warmer than it has been, and a high foreguessed at 64Fs. That’s almost 10° warmer in the daytime than it has been for a long time. I think it got up to 60 yesterday, and I had to turn the heater off in the kitchen because the place was so warm. Winter isn’t over, yet!
And a tiny puppy, as well! The landmines may be smaller but they’re still as lethal!
Good morning. We are all more or less conscious here, except for James, I suppose.
Fun is fun until someone has to clean up a mess.
Yes! He is so fast and so silent that he can appear at/under your feet in an instant...
That wasn’t exactly what I meant...
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Indeed that is the case! Trying to get him trained on the puppy pads at this point...
We’ve been on that task already! 😂
Oh yes, that is true as well!
That’s encouraging. Maybe James will make his entrance at a later time, slightly before he has to be to work. And he may be intact, unless some of Darks’ zombies get to him, first.
I don’t think James is working today, so he may not appear at all.
Thank goodness Tyson-who-is-not-allowe-on-the-furniture showed up housebroken!
So did Chocolate Chip Pi-the-feral/sanctuary-cat. Who, at almost seven years of age, does not know how to be a cat. But he is loved dearly!
That is always a plus!
Our other large dogs are mostly outside dogs, so it is a very different process with them.... and the previous Papillon arrived many years ago as a house trained 2 year old.... we can’t remember the last time we went through this process.....
I am sure that he appreciates your love and home more than can be imagined!
Humph Day in progress... Poop storm at work and snow storm incoming outside right now...
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