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.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
The guess is for almost 70 fs today. It’s warm(ish) and sunny now, so there’s a reasonable hope.
Seeing that kitteh on a leash - yesterday when we went for the afternoon walk with The Princess there was a full-sized golden doodle that was not on a leash and started to run towards us. It didn’t even have a collar on. I managed to convince it not to come too close, but the owners kept giving it commands like it might obey. That wasn’t going to happen. We had to shift our walk route. I was surprised by the no-callar thing. If it had run off, how would anyone have known to call them?
After a few really bad scores, I had a reasonable Wordle outing today. Mrs. ArGee disagreed with me that the informal word they used on Friday wasn’t a real word.
Wordle 1,724 3/6
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Good Monday Morning!
He looks like an Explorer!
Well, we got a small bit of rain (~0.25”), certainly not what was foreguessed... now we wait for tomorrow and Wednesday... 🤞🏻
Some tough slogging of late... couple of 4s on the weekend, then this...
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Maybe they had it micro-chipped...
Our dogs are chipped...but the outside guys all have collars on, and the inside little guys don't wear them in the house, but when they go off the property they have harnesses on...
Mrs. ArGee became afraid of dognapping in NY so we walk the Princess with a collar, a harness, and 2 leashes.
It seems overkill to me, but I definitely like the collar tag with our phone number on it. She’s chipped, but some people might not take the dog to a vet to have a chip read.
Yes, a phone number on the tag or collar is a good idea as well... two leashes can be a good backup in case one snaps...
Happy post-lost an hour Monday.
Weekend was mostly good. Hit 56 degrees yesterday. Worked on flower bed, fired up my new pressure washer, and even took Abby out for a run.
My parents are down in Florida for a month... and that’s where the drama came from. Saturday... My middle Sister and BiL were down visiting. They were out in the pool. My Dad had another stroke. Loss of speech, drooping mouth, right-side weakness. Same as last time. 9-1-1 was dialed and they got him to the ER withing 15 minutes of them knowing something was going on.
Great staff... put him on a blood thinner/declotting drug. Started showing improvement within just a couple of hours. By Sunday... his CT scans were showing clear and he was flirting with the nurses again. My Mom being a retired nurse herself was relaying the play-by-play for me and my youngest Sister up here.
So... Sisters are going to swap places and rather than let Dad drive home, youngest Sister will drive the parents back from Florida. That ought to be interesting. Dad is a retired Deputy and hates letting anyone else drive him under any circumstances. Guy could be missing a limb and still want to drive.
Usual prayer chains were engaged and he doesn’t seem to have suffered any lasting damage... again... this time...
It’s almost a relief coming back to work today.
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Sounds like a good weekend other than that...
Prayers up for a complete recovery!
Sorry to hear about that. Prayers up.
F-I-L had one big stroke and died shortly thereafter. I don’t know what might have happened if the Dr. Mrs. ArGee called hadn’t tried so hard to minimize it. That delayed us going to the hospital by a day, but I think the handwriting was on the wall anyway.
M-I-L had a number of TIA events. They each degraded her quality of life a little, but she survived them all
My Mom’s Sister and their Mom both had multiple strokes before they died. This is Dad’s second minor stroke... although with his 7-8 back surgeries and 4-5 heart attacks... It’s getting hard to keep track.
Starting to think my Mom is bad luck. (jk)
Takes me back to one of the Silver Dollar City favorite gags:
Person 1: (Chuckling) That was one of my mom’s jokes.
Person 2: What are you, one of your dad’s?
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