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.
Congratulations on the Wordle. And good luck with the basement. Windy here, too, although the rain is gone for now.
Same Wordle progression here...
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I thought today was going to just be another boring Friday scraping the bottom of the barrel for work... Nope. Got a client that moved locations without telling us, so now we need to jump through hoops to get them back up and running by Monday.
With zero new location info other than the street address.
No network
No phones
No security system/building control info
Oh boy...
Sounds like fun!
“Uh, you don’t have any alarm system for break-ins. I can hire Bubba and his boys to stand guard all night.”
That’s very amusing. (We just have a gas log, though.)
Good Friday Evening!
I left before dawn to take Arthur to get his neutering done today... what a treat for both of us... him more than I!
After dropping him off at the vets, I did a bunch of shopping and soon after I got home and unloaded everything, they called to say that I could pick him up... another hour plus each way and we made it back... I immediately took a long nap!
Then sat and struggled to formulate a row 3 guess... I believe that there was only one word that fit at that point...
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The standard response to that is: that’s why they pay you the big bucks!
Turned into an OK day after all.
Low volt tech’s were still pulling and testing cable. I worked around them to get the network racked and powered up. Managed to brow beat enough people to get someone to call their Comcast rep and get me the new IP info I needed for the firewall.
Not as bad as it could have been.
What a great tip. Though watch out for DSS (department of social services).
Merry Christmas. May Your New Year be the best ever for You and Yours!!!
That’s great, wonderful when a plan comes together!!
Exactly what I have seen... rush across the tiles to make sure to hit the carpet... sigh...
We got rid of all carpet, hardwood and tile only and they still throw up on the rugs.
Used too, very consistently! Been without a cat in the house for several years now....
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Ha, I can relate to that!
It’s a cat standard behavior. I don’t know how they managed to evolve it in the state of nature with no carpets.
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