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. Happy Friday!
It’s still a little cool here. They’re guessing 65 for the high today. Rain is in their crystal ball for tomorrow through Monday. It could get as high as 72 on Sunday before dropping back to the upper 50s/lower 60s for a while.
Sorry, Algore. It ain’t globull warming.
Wordle is not my friend today. I managed to get 2 runs, giving me 8 for the Over. But I’m not happy with the folks at the Slimes.
Wordle 1,784 4/6
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Good Friday Morning!
There it is... another week that has just flown by... I just don’t know where the time goes lately...
Fully back in the “tease pattern” of rain guesses here... now we look forward to late Sunday... 🤞🏻
Took quite a bit of noodling for this one...
Wordle 1,784 4/6*
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The 2 runs give me 12 for the Over...
Happy ET disclosure day...
Wordle 1,784 4/6
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I’m thinking it’s all a bunch of nothing. If there were anything there it would all have been released during the Autopen administration to distract everyone from the bizarre behavior of the President.
Right now, it’s just a bunch of grainy stills that are extremely underwhelming.
Moi?
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How much longer will people even remember the Blackberry?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SEe_lXZx9Fw
Good Saturday Morning!
That’s some nice coloration going on there!
Hoping that everyone has a nice weekend, and has something enjoyable going on...
We still haven’t gotten any of the guessed rain, but hold out hope for late Sunday.... 🤞🏻
Wordle 1,785 3/6*
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The 3 runs give me 15 for the Over...
Well, I got clobbered this Over. Of course, getting a goose egg on Thursday didn’t help.
I still can’t believe they used umbra. I mean, who knows that word? And when I was just trying to guess words that started with UM I typed UMMAH because I had heard of that before and Wordle accepted it. It’s an Arabic word, not English. What are they doing accepting an Arabic word????
Anyway, 2 runs today gave me 10 for the Over.
Wordle 1,785 3/6
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And it’s 3 runs today so 11 for the over.
Too late in the day for me.
Yes, it can be frustrating... Words that they have accepted and I look up are sometimes non-English words... WTH!
I got there by elimination and was thinking of UMBER but knew that E was out, as I typed in UMBRA I was thinking of PENUMBRA...
Glad today was a practice round as it took me 5..
Good morning. Happy Monday!
We’ll be heading out to the vet specialist shortly. Hopefully it will be an uneventful drive and The Princess will get a good report.
I haven’t solved the Wordle yet. I’m on my 6th guess so I’m getting a zero to start the Over. If I get it, I’ll post my score. It is a sea of green day.
Happy Monday to you. I hope everything turns out well at the vet.
A yellow and white cat who sometimes comes by our yard appeared on NextDoor as, “Is this somebody’s cat? She’s trying to come in my screen door.” Someone else in the neighborhood said, “Yes, that’s my cat!” so maybe he’ll do a better job, in future, of keeping her from wandering around the neighborhood telling people she’s homeless.
Shannon used to do that.
Good Monday Morning!
A happier looking creamsicle has never been seen!
We waited and waited and finally got some rain overnight... close to an inch for us, so we are happy about that!
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The 2 runs will start me out with 2 for the Over...
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