For those of us old enough to remember.
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.
But then we wouldn’t urn a tombstone!
For those of us old enough to remember.
Thursday. Onsite at same client I was at on Monday. What was supposed to be a nice simple 2 day loadout of 13 new mini-pc’s just turned in to a WAY under-scoped effort. Not only do I need to build out and custom configure each of these machines, they expect me to deploy them too...
Half their staff isn’t even here to get usernames/passwords from to copy over their local data to a new profile.
I need to find another way to make money.
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Yikes!
Who in the company scopes out the work effort?
(Hopefully not the Sales folk.... shudder...)
Account Team was supposed to nail down details. It’s the client that left a few details out that now I have to deal with.
Ahhh...
Are the deployments all in the same location at least?
Yes... One location. Office suite. I’m set up in the conference room right now.
... and of course my automation tools are having issues.
*sigh*
I seem to remember Steve Dallas of “Bloom County” fame deciding that maybe defending criminals in court wasn’t the best and most honorable way to earn a living. As he was contemplating options he thought to himself, “I could pimp.”
Ugh... at least they are in one location...
Good morning. Happy Friday!
You’ll have to brush your teef somewhere else!
It’s sunny and chilly (again) here. The second arborist agreed with the first although he recommended a deep root nitrogen feeding to help the trees recover from the frost. We’ll give that a try.
The basement guy is coming back on Tuesday to fix the leak he left behind.
We have no special plans for the weekend, which is fine by me.
Another 3 runs for Wordle Cricket. I now have 14 for the Over.
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Good Friday Morning!
We’ve been getting our fair share of rain lately... picked up another 0.54” yesterday and another 0.47” has fallen since midnight... we also lost power for about 4 hours last evening... 🤷🏽♂️
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The 3 runs should make it 12 for the Over...
Unless you blow up tomorrow and I get lucky, looks like you’ve got this Over in hand... an overhand of sorts...
Gut Fritag...
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Busy day.
I wouldn’t rule out either. 🙂
Hope that it went well, and you got the mess under control at the client site...
Good Saturday Morning!
I certainly can’t make out what glass this cat is pushing up against... 🤷🏽♂️
We picked up another 1.23” yesterday and now we are just under 12” for the year... still not there yet, but I can see that the stock tanks don’t look so dangerously low at this point... supposed to be a couple of sunny days this weekend so the grass in the pastures should be mighty happy!
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The 3 runs should make it 15 for the Over...
Forgot to update the address field...
And forgot to say: hoping that the weekend is shaping up into something nice for everyone...
(I think that is it for now... 🤣 )
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