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.
Bodies.
w00t!
I have this picture of Lt. Dan sitting in the crow's nest screaming at the storm. "Is this all you've got?"
So true. If more people were good at it, everyone would find it easier ... sort of like driving.
My wisteria is blooming. I pulled out dead branches yesterday; there are always some. It’s got poison ivy growing at the base. I’ll clear it out when it’s finished blooming.
Unfortunately we seem to be moving in the wrong direction, people are getting worse at it.
Young ArGee had a friend who couldn’t understand why her boss yelled at her for not being able to make it to work on time for a 10am meeting.
Good gravy. At least James goes to work on time. Even Patrick manages, and he’s a kookydoodle.
The friend just didn’t understand why it was so important.
Thanks! Sort of stumbled into that one...
Very true... on both counts... sigh
Our Wisteria has been blooming for a bit... too bad they don’t last...
Good Morning!
Pardon my tail for a moment...
Hoping that everyone has something nice cooking for the weekend... we are hoping to see some substantial rains... 🤞🏻
Other than that, some nice beef ribs for supper tonight...
Not enough to save this low scoring Over...
Wordle 1,757 3/6*
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I believe that hit gives me 3 runs today, and 11 for the Over...
Ours have been suffering as it is raining today. Not a sunbeam to be found.
Is that a dogwood?
No, the bark is wrong. I don’t know what it is.
Looks like apple blossoms.
Thanks! There are crabapples hereabouts, but I haven’t been close to the flowers recently.
Apparently my sending of Wordles to myself failed yesterday. I got it in 4, making 2 runs. That gives me 16 for the Over.
I hope you got your rain.
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