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 Saturday Morning!
That cat certainly looks like a shrewd Uno player...
Hoping that everyone has something good on tap for the weekend!
They changed the guess again, we might get some rain today... 🤞🏻
A sacrificial row two yielded results...
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I believe that hit gives me 3 runs today, and 14 for the Over...
w00t!
WE have rain today. It's supposed to end late morning. I might be able to mow this afternoon.
I got a real break yesterday giving me 4 runs and 15 for the Over.
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I just squeaked by this Over. You are still winning the game. Here's the running score:
Over End Date Zzeeman ArGee 3/21 17 15 3/28 13 11 4/4 15 11 4/11 11 16 4/18 14 15 Total 70 68
Good show! We’ve got a Match going for sure... 🏏
Good morning! It’s cooler here today, also cloudy, but no rain in the forecast. Maybe we’ll be surprised.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
It srsly cooled off yesterday. We walked at 37 fs this morning. Fortunately the sun shone enough to dry the grass so I could mow.
Hopefully we get our last bid on landscaping today so we can move forward. But it looks like it will be June before we get anything planted, which is a lot later than we wanted.
I got a surprisingly good start to this Over. I picked up 4 runs.
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Happy Monday to you! Looked like a rime of frost on the roofs this morning, but it’s gone now that the sun is up.
Good Morning!
It is Monday... looking like a rainy week ahead is guessed for us... 🤞🏻
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I believe that hit gives me 3 runs today, and 3 for the Over...
It was chilly here as well, got down to 45° Saturday night into Sunday morning...
We have a freeze warning for tonight. It won’t be a hard freeze, but it’s in the weather app. It starts warming up tomorrow.
Happy Monday...
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“They say” it will be 41 tonight here.
I’d like to meet “they” someday. They certainly know a lot.
Yeah, and no consequences when they’re wrong.
Hopefully it won’t drop too low...
Another week begins....
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