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.
Tricksy indeed.
I was trying to set up the 00 post for someone to grab, but you jumped in right ahead of me.
And I can’t read, because it was an 80 post, not a 00. A few more to go.
As it is a source of some popularity, I have gone about finding the actual “escape plan” for Schrödinger’s cat.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-would-schrodinger-s-cat-es-cbyRTixiSiGx7Z1csQXGPw#3
Digging out my TI-81 to check.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
It looks like a basket is a safer place for a kitteh than a box.
We had 14 degrees this morning when walking The Princess. We had some snow yesterday. Even though it was less than an inch I decided to push it off the driveway last night. This morning I was glad I did as it might have been slippery otherwise. It’s supposed to start warming up tomorrow.
I did marginally better at Wordle today.
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Good morning. It seems to be a trash container, but don’t tell kitteh.
Sounds like a great gift, will it be a surprise?
Conceptually I think that I understand it, but the details are beyond my grasp at this point in my life... (my grasp would have been shaky at any point in life! lol)
Good Morning!
Warmer here but Mr. Sun has gone away for a couple of days... warm, moist air from the South invades...
Took a long time to get row 3...
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Good job on the sandblaster cabinet... Been keeping an eye on the auction sites for a new 12-15 drawer tool cabinet. I have a small roller cabinet and 9 tool boxes of various sizes and I’d kind of like to organize and consolidate.
That’s just regular tools. I have a wooden chest of drawers back in the forge for my tools there and a large tackle box for my gunsmithing/cleaning tools. Plus another for my electrical parts/tools... and... well, you get the idea.
Was a tought one today. I wasn’t even sure I was spelled the word right, but I was running out of options.
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Tough... I need to get back in the habit of spell checking on FR. Other places I post have an edit function that I abuse shamelessly.
Same as me this morning, thought that we were coming up on 00, but it was really 90…
As long as the kitteh is alive whether you’re looking at the container or not it’s good.
His Mom found a commercial grit-blasting cabinet
When I was in the military they made some nice going away gifts using a mirror and a blaster. They used contact paper to cut out the areas they wanted to blast in, like the unit logo, the person's name, and the year of departure, and blasted the mirror to give the blasted areas a pebbly look.
Good point. That’s an advantage over boxes.
Hey! You didn’t say there would be math!!!
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