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 Morning!
He says that at least he’s of the ground, and can still see pretty well!
It’ been a bit warm, muggy, and cloudy of late, but if that is the price we have to pay to at least have a chance of rain each week, so be it...
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Good morning! Still dry here. I’ll be taking care of my granddaughter this morning.
Nice!
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Kitteh needs a cup of coffee to complete da disgize.
We have more warm weather on tap for today. I noticed the sun peeking over the horizon as I walked The Princess this morning. The morning light is nice.
We have the final bid from the landscaper. Now to commit a ton of money to the house. Mrs. ArGee says that’s a sure sign we’ll be moving soon. We tend to fix up houses to leave them, she says.
My very ordinary Wordle score today gives me 2 more runs. That’s 12 for the Over.
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Every cloud has a silver lining.
He said as the downpour began.
I hear granddaughters are nice to have around.
Bravo for that cat photo, tax-chick!! 😀
She is cute and mostly fun, and goes back to her parents for bedtime.
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You’re welcome. I think it’s cute. My daughter, #3, the mother of my granddaughter, has a big, white cat.
We were awakened an hour early by the fish tank pump... don’t know why but it was raising a racket... usually only happens if the water level gets too low, but it isn’t low now... 🤷🏽♂️
That sounds like what a Grandma would do!
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That reminds me of a story my mom told about taking my nephew grocery shopping.
The 3-y-o nephew took something off a shelf and said, “Grandma, we need this.” Mom said she was focusing on her list and finding the next thing and said, “No, we don’t need that.” Nephew said, “Grandma, do we have one?” “No, Dear, we don’t have one.” “Then we need one!”
3-y-o logic.
Sometimes I think stuff can feel neglected.
I think this laptop acts up sometimes because it’s tired of just being used to do other things.
Well the fish use it 24x7.... 🤷🏽♂️
Ouch!
It’s so convenient now that they’ve moved out to the ‘burbs.
Mistakes were made...
And I’m glad I didn’t make them.
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