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.
w00t!
Good morning. Kitteh is irked. I, too, am irked, as I attempt to get Frank moving for a trip to the DMV, and he does nothing but whine. Whine and moan.
Thanks, I wondered about that (multi-year)... We don’t have one but my MIL does and has been wanting to do something about the dried out look...
Good Midweek Morning!
A w00t for a Wednesday! Hoping to hear some of that rain starting late tonight.... 🙏🏼
It was slow, but finally arrived...
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I believe that hit gives me 2 runs today, and 8 for the Over...
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
We have a gloomy day with a foreguess of rain. But it was 63 fs when I walked The Princess.
We’re going to be celebrating Passover tonight. It’s nice that it aligns so closely to Easter this year.
Young ArGee teaches math. She shared a poster she has on her wall that reads:
Math: Where Bill has 99 cabbages but no one asks why.
I’ve already used 5 Wordle guesses and I have no clue what to try next. Whatever I get will be no runs to add to the Over. So I may post it if I get it, but I may not.
I got the Wordle in 6 so no runs. I’m still at 4 for the Over.
I was told I could get a badge for solving the puzzle with only greens if I wanted to. I’m not sure I care enough to give the Slimes even a bogus email address.
Anyway, here’s the grim picture.
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It was either a U or and I and I guessed...
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I sat outside to admire the full moon last night. Maybe I’ll do it again tonight. Different calendars show Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday for the full moon!
Liftoff is a little too late at night for me to watch now. We’ll be eating our Passover dinner when they finally light it up.
Otherwise I would certainly be. I still remember driving over to park on the side of the Cocoa Beach Parkway (or whatever it was called) to wait for a couple of Apollo rockets to launch.
This process ensures Orion is fully pressurized and ready for flight. Once the hatch is closed and locked, the astronauts are officially sealed inside their spacecraft, marking a major milestone on the path to liftoff.
What happened to Holden and Burton just walking in the door and hitting the "cycle airlock" button?
This is NASA and their over-engineered-but-somehow-still-sketchy rocket and not an MCRN gun ship like the Rocinante.
a-HEM. The Roci does not belong to the MCRN. It is legitimate salvage. :)
Ahh, yes, the famous Sea of Green badge... they really don’t send many emails to whatever address you sign up with... very low volume... 🤷🏽♂️
Should have looked last night, going to be cloudy here tonight...
What time are they going to lift off?
The Rocinante was a cool ship... of course, Corvette-class light frigates are incredibly flexible!
Oi kopeng... was technically the Tachi... Inyalowda always pensa they know better...
I don’t know if you read the books or watched the series or both. I read the books. I was very disappointed that the authors didn’t address letting Naomi know Philip was still alive before it was all over.
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