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.
Hilton Head? Either National or Palmetto Dunes?
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Thanks, I bolluxed my way into it...
Good Friday Morning!
She’s a real beauty!
The guessers foiled me again... I lit up a large burn pile yesterday morning as there was no rain forecast for the day... about 2 hours into it, it started lightly, then opened up in a downpour... rained on and off the rest of the day, so we did pick up 0.78”... I’ll pick it up again after it dries out a bit...
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Very difficult with a questionable ‘acceptable’ word...
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The 1 run makes it 10 for the Over...
Yes, a very glamorous cat.
It rained here, too. 1-1/2” or so. Probably more in the next couple of days.
Good Morning. Happy Friday. Slightly damp start to the day. If it isn’t actively raining later, I’ll be riding Abby up to my Sister’s lake place.
Was debating on going up there, but I really didn’t have anything better to do.
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Good morning. Happy Friday!
I’m up (for now). I have this room until 2 so I’ll shower, grab lunch, and maybe nap again before I have to leave. I survived the night, now I have to survive the days after. I’ll stay near young ArGee tonight and spend more time with her and travel back tomorrow.
Today’s 4-spot gives me 2 more runs. I’m now at 11 for the Over.
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Wow, hopefully you are in a place that could use it...
Great that you were able to ride Abby up... enjoy the weekend at the lake!!
Thanks!
Good Saturday Morning!
When your shadow is real!
Hopefully everyone has a nice weekend on tap and the weather cooperates... at least some of the time...
As a change of pace, we are going to a community theater production of “Kiss Me Kate” later today...
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After row three, I think that there was no other choice...
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Thanks. I continued to survive. I’m back home.
There was a lot more rain to be driven through, though.
I also managed a 2, with not much choice after row 3. My score for the Over is 13.
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Raining here, too. Temps in the 60s. We had a church event, and I think I made 15 pots of coffee.
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