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.
w00t!
Yes, it could have been worse. And it probably will be since we have to code for and test all this, only to change it later.
When Mrs. ArGee rhetorically asks, “Could it be any worse?” I always admonish her to not ask questions she doesn’t want to know the answer to.
Thanks, didn’t even realize that we climbed that high...
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BTTT!!!
Wednesday. At least it’s nice and I get to ride my bike to my client appointment...
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Random letter guesses for the win...
I kinda did that, too. My guess 4 was a word I knew but not guess 5.
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Good show!
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I believe the litter box needs tending Human.
It always does.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
I tot we waz not celebrating birthdayz any morez!
We got the guessed rain yesterday and some thunder that The Princess did not like at all. Our guessed high for today is back in the 50s.
I haven’t managed to keep people from working on generating the useless value number in our IT request form. The number exists now, so it will have to continue to exist later. Go figure.
I managed to redeem this Over today. 4 runs gives me 8 for the Over.
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Our guessed high for today is back in the 50s.
Wow!
Good Morning!
Looks like the last sunny day for a bit... can’t complain as we’ve had quite a string of them... looks like some more rain is guessed for next week... 🤞🏻
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Been some rough sledding of late...
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The 1 run puts me at 5 for the Over...
Thursday... Might rain. Might be nice. Can’t find a weather app that agrees with some other weather app...
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You went to the wall on that one... I did that yesterday... and didn’t fare much better today...
Yes, it is sometimes amazing how varied the foreguesses are from app to app... even in close in ranges...
When you make your living guessing it’s hard to standardize on a guess.
Hey, my guess is better than your guess so the app should use my app.
I went to the wall on Monday after a 5-try Sunday.
Yesterday and today made me think I’m not so bad at this after all.
I have always had a more than passing interest in meteorology... but being a boater/biker puts a whole different spin on it.
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