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.
That loos like a dog in the Dying Cockroach Position....
Sounds like Stormy Weather!
*sheesh*
It took me the better part of two hours to complete the filing, and come this time next month, I’ll be purging the files of everything up to December 1 of this year. But I’m glad I got it done! The kitchen looks much better.
And that’s the end of the housework for the day. I have other things that can occupy my attention. Hahaha.
🤣
It’s rather strange the things my brain will come up with when I free-associate.
Please don’t remind me of The Dying Cockroach.
That was something we gad to do in the military when some idiot screwed up and got caught.
You sit in an abdominal crunch, arms and legs in the aur, you do bicycle kicks and hands rolls while shouting “I am the dying cockroach, I look like (crap), I eat (crap) I die and I smell like (crap) I am the dying cockroach!”
And you had to do this until the NCO got tired.
And we gad an apocalyptic screwup in our unit who seemed to enjoy getting caught doing stupid crap.
I do that often as well…. it can sometimes drive Mrs. zz crazy…
I did a little shopping, had a nap, took Frank to his friend’s house.
[sigh]
Irrelevance.
The part of parenting they never tell you about. “Just you wait,” they say, “Wait ‘til they find out it’s not as easy as it looks. THEN you’ll have plenty to say.”
Well.
Must’ve been an old-world thing, ‘cuz my phone ain’t ringin’...
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
We were right on the cusp of freezing when I walked The Princess this morning. She doesn’t seem to mind if the parking area is a little slick. But we made it there and back again, so all is well.
M-I-L slept last night. It looks like this ‘optional’ 8pm pill has become mandatory, at least for now.
Another Wordle ‘par’:
Wordle 1,279 4/6*
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🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜
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Woke up to 3” of snow and more to come... Not as bad as lake effect snow. Not even sure it’ll be worth it to dig out the snow blower...
Wordle 1,279 3/6
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I really had to stare that that photo to realize it was a cat!
I hope you had a good night.
I’m finally up but didn’t want to be. But it’s pill-sorting day, so I need to get busy soon and pretend like the day is wasting. Which it is, kinda.
Outside of that and the groceries, the day is mine so maybe I’ll do something productive. Haha.
Chip has been off his feed the last two days, but he seems to be sleeping the night in my chair here, close to the heater. I’ve been working very close to him and he hasn’t moved, except to either blink or raise his head, depending on the noises I make. I’ll make an appointment to see the vet soon. I think I know how to catch Chip.
I have to vacuum sometime between now and Saturday, and Chip won’t like it, but he’s been good about the noises like that, as the Lawn Guy has been blowing leaves and making other preparations for winter.
I have no idea the schedule is for the Other Folks, other than they are getting in Saturday night. I have no clue when I’ll see them, so I’ve kept my own agenda free, on the off-chance that I’ll get an invitation to dinner. Or something. Haha. Without Carol, it won’t be much fun.
I don’t bother with the snow blower until it’s like 4 or more. It used to drive F-I-L nuts when I told him it wasn’t worth the effort of wrestling that thing around vs. shoveling.
Of course, the type of snow would factor in.
It’s a fairly new snow blower and one of my main complaints about it is that even with tire chains, it’s too light to realy dig in to heavier snows... It has the horsepower, just not the “hefty hindquarters” to keep it chomping in to the tought stuff.
Sorry, guys. I’ve played the last two days, but either my starter word this time is super fantastic or my love for a word challenge is still kicking in, because my scores are super low.
I’ll wait until I have something that isn’t quite so show-offy before I post it here. Maybe tomorrow. :o|
Maybe they were expecting you to provide that.
I don’t mind show-offy scores.
Yeahbut. My mother told me it wasn’t ladylike to brag.
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