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.
The work on the Caddy is slated for either tomorrow or this weekend.
Yesterday was negotiating with the seller of the bike frame and running over to grab it...
That sounds like a fun activity.
I enjoy working with my hands... :-)
Thanks, Z. I’ll keep that skunk tip in mind in the hopes I never need to use it.
I googled “how to convert a motorcycle into a flying machine” and got a lot of hints.
Just in case you want to make it even more fun.
I think I will pass on that...
Although, I have thought of doing a home project along the lines of the “human sized flying drones” that are supposedly available for market.
I do like the look of the Jetson One, although the range is a bit limiting for me. Give me the range of gasoline.
Good morning. Happy Friday!
Another of those polar thingies is guessed to come through here this evening bringing cold winds through the weekend. We might get a little snow as well, although only enough to mess up this evening’s commute. Fortunately, I don’t have to go out in that.
It seems my late F-I-L was involved in a data breach. I have to decide if I want to enroll him in a free ID monitoring service for a year to keep him from voting democrat in upcoming elections.
Wordle took some real thinking to come up with a guess 4 after all those letter eliminations.
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If she is leashed when you walk her, you likely won’t have a need...
Good morning. They Say the high will be in the 50s today, colder over the weekend (but not record cold), and in the 60s by next Tuesday.
Good Friday Morning!
This week seemed back to the normal ‘rushed right by’ style to me... keeping busy seems to have that effect...
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Happy Friday..
Um... yeah... Nothing more to add. Sorry. Didn’t sleep very well and I’m not enthusiastic about my workload today. Another day scrabbling for work and trying to justify the billing...
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I’ll see if I can convince the incredibly risk-averse Mrs. ArGee that the risk is low. Right now we’re just avoiding that area.
Well, you have the weekend to look forward to!
Only time our dogs got skunked has been when they are really young (and have not learned that particular lesson yet!) and are chasing down a skunk in the yard at night... for some of them, it takes more than once to learn! 😂
Bowling an automotive maintenance the Weather Gods permitting...
Wooo! Slow me down on all the excitement.
Although, weekend next I took Friday off and might be heading up to my Sister’s lake place. Apparently, septic system froze up and might need help repairing it...
Was going to have a crappy V-Day anyway... so may as well keep it real.
Working on septic systems is definitely one of my least favorite activities...
I’m hoping they get it fixed before then... Sounds like the pipes weren’t burst or anything. Just frozen.
It almost makes one wonder why humanity ever moved this far north.
My theory is that long before globull warming began, the earth had generally more moderate temperatures throughout. Once people had already moved north, they weren’t going to let a little thing like cold weather push them out of their homes.
And I’ll just grab this while it’s sitting here.
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