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.
I lived in Houston. I know the fire ants.
Interesting story. I met a man shortly after he had tried to pull a truck out of the mud with a farm tractor. He’d set the chain on tractor too high and gunned the engine too fast. He wound up rolling the tractor’s nose up and over - pinning his head to the ground. The steering wheel of the tractor hit him just below his nose in the upper jaw.
The reason he was still alive is because his head had gone into a fire ant hill, which made the ground incredibly soft.
Of course, he had the ant stings to go with the broken facial bones, but he was alive so he wasn’t complaining.
Narrowly in the pet-friendly category there’s this summary from which I’d bet you can find something appropriate:
https://petmag.com/best-flea-killers-for-yards/
Peacocks!
Thank you.
I’m not sure how well they’d do here, but it might be worth the screaming to keep the pests down.
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
I can feel the time change hitting hard. It usually does either Wednesday or Thursday each year.
The basement guy comes today. I also have an appointment to meet my new doctor’s office today (I’ll see the PA).
According to the app, it hit 81 yesterday. Now we’re on a cooling trend. We’ll see temps in the 30s soon if the guesses are correct.
With so many choices for my 3rd Wordle guess this is one of those rare times I picked the right one.
Wordle 1,726 3/6
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They’ve been pretty hopeless of late...
Ahh, that’s right... you know them well!
I think that you must have told me that story before, because it sounds very familiar...
The teenbros are complaining about the time change. I don’t like it, but I was prepared.
Good Midweek Morning!
We finally got some rain overnight... woke up to see 0.44” registered on the rain gauge, which is double what we got on Saturday.... at least it wasn’t a total bust... now we wait for the next opportunity...
Good job on the third row pick!
I’m still trying to figure out how the time change is impacting us... it hasn’t worked out as well as we hoped for the two inside puppies... still waking up too early... sigh...
Sea of Greens again...
Wordle 1,726 4/6*
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I don’t like it. I’m ready for them to end it. But congress is more than useless these days.
Looks like you got just as lucky with the letters 3 and 4 needing to be guessed. I had about three options in my mind when I typed in the first one.
Missed badly on 3, then got lucky...
One of our testers doesn’t like when the form uses title case and sentence case inconsistently. One comment was that a label needed to be title case. Now the label reads “Title Case:”
Oh, and this isn’t one of our H1B people, this is a born and bred English speaker.
Still cracking up about it.
We were supposed to get a foot of snow... We got a bit less than an inch... Was looking forward to using it as an excuse to stay home and work remotely today. Instead... 45 minute trip to a client site.
The usual.
Wordle 1,726 3/6
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So... I’m mulling some way to score Wordle analogously to at-bats in baseball. I’m snagged on the reality that the rarity of solving the puzzle on the first-guess doesn’t align with the natural occurrence of home runs, and possibly even the sum of the frequencies of first- and second-guess solutions still might not match up, but could be tolerably close...? Maybe?
So then a third-guess solution would count for a triple, and so on leaving the sixth-guess solution to be... what? A base on balls? Ball players go down swinging more often than Wordle players exhaust six tries, so...
All that to say, “It ain’t soup, yet.”
So, today you could say I managed to drive it past third base out into the deep corner of left field for a slide-in double.
Wordle 1,725 4/6
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TEACHER’S NOTE: “Needs work.”
Summer is trying to Summer before Spring has finished Springing. This is troubling because our reservoirs are above historical average capacity all around the State, but were hardly at 50% average snow pack, and that snow pack is the backup capacity to our system of reservoirs that keeps the supply up until the rains come back late in the Fall.
It’s not a problem for this year — our reservoir capacity will carry the State through just fine, but successive shortfalls would be a problem. The sticky wicket is an El Niño condition brewing in the equatorial Pacific that would tend to make next Winter wetter, but also warmer. That would bring us lots of rain, but a second year of below-average snow pack.
In other news...
Paid $5.10 a gallon for low-grade this morning. That’s up nearly 35% from $3.80 in January, which means it costs me an additional $15 to fill up; easily an extra $50 a month, now, to get around.
I thought this thread was about an unexploded ordnance brought into a school by some kid.
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