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.
Of course!
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
It’s a big day today, of course. It’s young ArGee’s birthday.
Our landscaper choice replied with all the right “yes we can do that” things so we’re just waiting on the final proposal to get that ball rolling. Or, it will start rolling in June anyway.
Another decent at-bat in Wordle. 3 runs today gives me 10 for the Over.
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Good Midweek Morning!
Well we were pleased to see 1.00” on the nose collect in the rain gauge yesterday... If we could get a similar event each week would be doing fine... 🤞🏻
Letter elimination led the way...
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I believe that hit gives me 3 runs today, and 8 for the Over...
Happy Birthday to Young ArGee! Is it a milestone?
Happy 80 degrees later this afternoon Wednesday.
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Good news on the rain and the Wordle.
Yes, but not one she’s very happy about. She’s now 40 and still single.
She has exacting standards. Plus she moved from NYC where people marry late to the heartland where people marry early.
The professional guessers are stating we’ll get to 73 this afternoon.
Maybe.
Wow, 80 is getting up there!
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Ahhh... I can understand... All in all, I suspect that she is much better off living in the heartland...
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That is excellent!
Cute!
Happy birthday to young ArGee. I was 40 once, 20 years ago.
I remember my 40s fondly.
The Pastor of the Church I was attending had the same birthdate as me, but 15 years earlier. On my 40th he said, “There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that it is really all downhill after 40. The bad news is it all hurts a lot more.”
I didn’t notice much pain until I turned 60, though. A little arthritis in one thumb.
I have some arthritis in my feet and occasional sciatica.
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