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.
Or until he turns 18.
w00t!
Hopefully we got it all, but we’ll see.
I am with you on all counts!
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Wilderness kitteh looks wild!
We had 13 fs this morning. It’s supposed to warm up tomorrow with a little rain to usher it in.
We’re also supposed to get our new sink installed tomorrow.
The heater guy hasn’t called back. I wonder if he’s in town.
So-so Wordle effort today.
Wordle 1,634 4/6
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Hope that you were able to get some good service lined up... necessity in these days...
Sounds like you’ve got a lot of good stuff to jump start a household or two...
it was one of those patterns...
Nice Wordle!
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Good Morning!
My trip schedule is off a bit this week... had to run to Waco yesterday to get some things that couldn’t wait until later in week... now today I need to run back to Bryan to pick up the couplings that the hydraulic shop didn’t have in stock last week... will hit the Costco and grocer as well... and hopefully there will be no more trips needed this week...
So-so Wordle, but it made a nice pattern...
Wordle 1,634 4/6*
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You can show that Wordle to people who upset you.
Hopefully you’re done “going into town” for the week after today.
Oh, yes I guess it could be seen as that... I saw it as an upside down T like in the Texas Tech logo...
Yes, hopefully today will be it on travel...
Lucky guesses based off of whatever letters were left...
This one, I hit because I typed in a wrong letter on the second guess...
Wordle 1,634 3/6
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I’d rather be lucky than good.
How many times can I tell someone “You’ve blown your chance. Cancel my service?” I finally offered to write a letter and copy the FCC.
So she can cancel the order to upgrade me to fiber. Once that’s processed I can call back to cancel Internet.
If I weren’t switching because they can’t fix my Internet for 10 days, I’d be switching for lousy customer service.
You have my deepest sympathy. Maybe they’re all actually cats there.
They all have very interesting accents.
And they use unusual phrases like “those information.”
Hmmm, that’s indicative.
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