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.
Guten Fritag.
Snowing again... Not thick, but annoying. Getting together with my Sisters and their kids on Sunday to make lefse. Annual thing. We normally have it with Christmas dinner. Norwegian thing...
Wordle 1,630 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
The help was two-fold: anchoring the first letter on row 2, and eliminating virtually all other vowels save one...
I will say that sometimes the more I know the harder it is to come up with ideas. Lots of elimination often is easier to work with that lots of correct letters.
Good morning. Happy Friday! It’s cold and raining here. I have meetings and stuff. Tonight we’ll be meeting Bill, my oldest son, and his mysterious girlfriend for drinks. Tomorrow, we plan to go to Lancaster, SC, to the Native American arts and crafts sale. The forecast is 40s and cloudy, but they’re not, at the moment, expecting rain.
A mysterious girlfriend sounds like fun. So does a Native American arts and crafts sale.
My grandfather was a part of a group in Arizona that kept Native American culture alive. They called themselves the Smoki and put on a cultural festival every year.
Unfortunately, the group has been shut down because reasons. But it was a lot of fun to participate back in the day. And growing up our house was decorated in mostly Hopi decorations.
I agree, especially in terms of the vowels....
When I saw a lot of black squares I used to be disappointed, now I am encouraged!
Sounds like fun, sometimes we just have to motor through the less than pleasant weather....
Enjoy!
When I’m motoring through less than pleasant weather Mrs. ArGee is always asking me to slow down. I always ask, “Why? Do you want to be stuck in this rain/snow forever?”
Does she look at you and say, “Oh, wise guy, ehhh.”
Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Looks like it’s weekend time!
🤣
Enjoy the weekend!
6 rolls of C-wire
8 concrete blocks
A box of farm fresh eggs.
Yep, that should do it.
Kettle on, sit back with 12 gauge and wait.
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