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.
Ahhh, I understand now... thanks!
Haha, I had the same reaction!
Enjoy your trip out of town!
Good Morning!
Still looks like we have a decent chance of rain for Saturday... 🤞🏻
And a decent Wordle today as well...
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We’re showing a chance of precipitation on Sunday. I’m not sure if it will be rain or snow.
I guess it could be either/or at this point...
Last work day until Tuesday. Feels weird. Especially when I really don’t have anything to do today workwise...
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Does it happen often that on days where it looks like you don’t have much to do, one email/call/text turns that completely around and you become swamped?
Eh... Depends. Taking over a client for an engineer that left our company. They are a very “hold my hand” type and I’m starting to regret giving them my contact info rather than letting them work through the help desk tiers first.
One of the toughest jobs of an IT manager is teaching team members how to say “no.” We are, by nature, a helpful bunch and it’s a word we really, really don’t like.
Hopefully they will settle down soon...
Perfect!
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Good morning. Happy Friday!
It got cooler last night. The warming trend now looks to begin tomorrow. There’s sun now so we’ll be melting some more snow today.
I had a decent Wordle to end the week.
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It’s Friday, this is Wordle:
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I just HAD to try the one colloquial before the other.
I blame California.
Supposedly we’re going to descend into some meteorological inclemency this weekend. I’ll be indoors.
That kitteh could ruin a perfectly bad mood.
It certainly was a strange one... Stay dry!
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