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.
Heh, very good.
Very relevant to these times...
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
I iz not getting in your laundries!!
It got cold last night, but not quite below freezing. I still put the jacket on The Princess this morning because her fur is so short. She wasn’t in a hurry to get things done, but she was in a hurry to get back inside.
We finally picked a landscaper. We have a few more details to nail down and then we spend a chunk of change on a deposit. Hopefully we’ll have stuff taken care of in June.
I have scheduled a colonoscopy. I’m so excited I could just go back to bed.
3 runs in Wordle Cricket today gives me 7 for the Over.
Wordle 1,767 3/6
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Wow, that’s a tail!
Good Morning!
Looking good for us rain starved folk in Central Texas today...
Wordle 1,767 4/6*
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I believe that hit gives me 2 runs today, and 5 for the Over...
Good morning. Cold here, but not below freezing as some of the more hysterical weather-guessers guessed.
I admire the cat’s tail. I would happily trade a 16-year-old boy for that cat.
Tuesday. Already 44 degrees. Onsite this afternoon for a client so I’ll be riding Abby over. Looking forward to that.
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Some days it isn’t all that fun to ask myself “what words have this letter but don’t have any of those letters and this letter can’t be in these places and ...”
At least the friendly competition makes it a little more fun.
I wonder if we can get Wordle Cricket on FanDuel or something.
We’re up to 41 degrees but no Abby for me to have fun with.
Not even an ultralight airplane.
I would probably want the kind that’s a kite with a motor on it. But not right now.
Always good when you can ride!
I see it as a good way to get my brain engaged upon waking...
The Fanduel thing would be a hoot.... some people will bet on anything!
SSSSOOOOO stealing this...
LOL!
It’d be funnier if it weren’t laced so full of truth.
Very philosophical.
I can just imagine delivering it.
True.
I wonder what he would say about the kinds of cats.
There are 100 kinds of cats in this world. They are all better than you.
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