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!
Hoping that the temps are closer to the guess for today... yesterday they missed by 5 degrees to the high side... don’t need it that warm this early in the year...
Crept up on it...
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I believe that hit gives me 2 runs today, and 3 for the Over...
It’s a day...
https://youtu.be/Op1i0B8-dJA?si=-LhMnNdpY7M5J4Fk
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I don’t think we have any mice in the house right now, but if any show up, I’d be happy to have the loaner cat eat them.
Good Midweek Morning!
He certainly looks like a Rocker!
Still hoping for rain next week.... 🤞🏻
Still working on the backhoe...
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I believe that hit gives me 4 runs today, and 7 for the Over...
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
I’m tardy this morning. We had a landscaper come and then I had to take a window sash in for repair. And then owrk was calling.
We have a somewhat cloudy day today. It should get really warm tomorrow, followed by another storm and a temp drop.
Our new CIO has accepted the offer. He’ll start April 6. Hopefully he won’t change the policy that allows me to work 100% remotely.
I scraped by for 1 run with Wordle today. I believe that gives me 6 for the Over.
Arbitrary Middle of the Week vestigial time measurement day.
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It’s Sunny outside. Currently 48, going to almost 70 later this afternoon. Work is boring and almost entirely make-work.
Copied it. Didn’t paste it.
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Can’t go wrong with warm and sunny.....
Now I just with I could find a set of damper tube stops for a 2020 Road King 49mm front suspension. You can literally find EVERY other part of the front forks other than these stupid stops.
I take it back, I found two sets of them... One set in the UK and another set in Australia. The Aussies won’t ship them here and the UK site after VAT and shipping makes a $20 pair of metal parts into a $127 cost. May as well just buy them right from Harley at that point.
Or you could invite the seller to come visit and show them around your area and buy them lots of beer. And they can just give them to you.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Happiness is a warm towel fresh from the dryer!
We’re supposed to have a really warm day today. The guess is for a high of 76. I know that’s not much in Z country, but it’s pretty warm for here.
The estimate for the new AC came in. We’re hoping to replace this 25-y-o unit before it becomes an emergency. But it’s a ton of money. Now to look into rebates from the local utilities. I understand we might get a tax break, too.
An unforced error on guess 2 caused me to fall to a 2 run Wordle today. I might have gotten 3. That puts me at 7 for the Over.
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How much do they cost from Harley?
I suspect that it is like buying the cylinder seal kits from Kubota... insanely expensive... priced to discourage you from buying them to rebuild the cylinders, rather to encourage you to buy brand new equipment!
Good Morning!
High in the 70s sounds nice! For some reason our guesses for highs in the low 80s this week has turned into the high 80s...
Still holding out hope for rain next week.... 🙏🏼
What?
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I believe that hit gives me 2 runs today, and 9 for the Over...
No idea... Online, mostly in foreign currency. 21 EURO turned into $127 USD with VAT and shipping.
It’s literally a metal cup that acts as a stop at the bottom of the front suspensions internal lower pistol. Maybe an inch across and 2-3” tall, hollow, with a 3/8” hole drilled in the bottom. If I had a metal lathe and the dimensions, I could probably make them in about a half hour or less with most of that time just changing tools.
From the dealer here in the US? I can’t imagine these being more than $20-25 for a SET.
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“internal lower pistol”
internal lower piston... *sigh* gonna be one of those days.
Hopefully it got better.
I was trying to think of an internal lower pistol joke but I came up dry.
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