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.
A grey tuxie. Interesting and beautiful.
w00t!
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
It was 10 fs warmer this morning than yesterday. Still a nippy 26, but warmer.
Young ArGee is coming Saturday. Hopefully she won’t be sick this year. She tends to come down with something around Christmas break time.
This hasn’t been the best week for me at Wordle. Almost skidded off the runway again.
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And so many kittens.
Good morning. Interesting Wordle effort. I hope your daughter makes it through the season in good health.
Vlad is taking Tom to the airport this afternoon. Tom is going to visit Elen for Christmas in rainy Oregon. I hope he doesn’t make everyone there sick, as I recall he did last year.
30s here, supposed to be 60 later. Tomorrow, it will rain, They Say.
an elusive 000 one...
Good Midweek Morning!
Another grey, gloomy day to awaken to... at least it isn’t very cold... hoping that the sun shows up tomorrow...
Talk about a lucky guess...
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I’m sure air travel has done a lot to spread local illnesses to areas that don’t have near the immunity. NC may have variants of colds that Oregon doesn’t, and vice versa.
Hopefully Tom and Elen will have an enjoyable visit sans pesky viruses (viri?).
Nice job on the Wordle. 🏆
As we often say, if it wasn’t for a little luck, we’d get nowhere in this game...
Are you talking about Wordle or Life? (Maybe both?)
I think that both is the right answer to that…
Looks guilty to me!
Caught the double on the second guess. Made this one easy.
Currently 30 and Sunny. Made it to 41 yesterday. Heat wave I tell ya’!
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Very good.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
We were up to 31 fs this morning. We’re expecting rain later today.
The Princess got something in her system that gave her trouble yesterday. It seems to be resolving itself, though. That’s a relief. In the past she’s usually needed a rice diet to clear things out.
I continue to struggle with Wordle this week.
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