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.
Happy Friday. It’s been a week here, too. Sally dropped a pair of scissors on her foot and had to get James to drive her to the emergency room for stitches. Daniel dropped a dresser on the toe where he doesn’t have a toenail because the podiatrist took it off to cure a MRSA infection last year. And James had a collision in the Walmart parking lot. The only vehicle damage was a broken tail light, but it was upsetting for James, who has never been a particularly confident driver.
If we make to tomorrow evening, I’ll have a good night’s sleep.
Oh, here is Stump-Tail Cat. I hope the rabbits are alert.
Just yesterday, I read of someone in China who was funding what’s her name at Code Pink.
I then recalled a Freeper at a Fayetteville MOAB gathering protesting Code Pink where he was viciously assaulted by a Code Pink Thug.
The Freeper who was assaulted had been fondly observing a tiny Freeper child freely enjoying the company of the assembled Freepers gathered there.
Was it that child who had a collision?
I’m so sorry to hear about the various alarums. Visits to the ER are generally double-plus un-fun. Here’s hoping to a peaceful start to the weekend. Maybe you can convince the powers-that-be that you’ve already used up your share of trouble and someone else deserves a turn.
Makes sense!
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Yikes!
Hopefully the weekend will be a lot smoother….
So, Blue Origin’s booster blew up and it was, apparently, a key component of putting a base on the moon.
Did you ever hear anything about your and Grok’s analysis of using the ISS as the starting point for a moon base?
It might have been James (born 2004), of the collision, or Daniel/Vlad, (born 2006), of the toe.
I remember that event vividly, including the thug hitting someone from behind and then yelling, “He hit me!”
Ahhh, yes... the infamous “Alright, wise guy...” (AWG) Method. The unexpected role shift from Critic to Criticized does do wonders in many cases.
I’m going to make the perhaps counterintuitive recommendation that you buy a Present for James.
https://seattimeracingexperience.com/
Let him hammer it around the track at over 100mph and he’ll never again have the jitters doing mundane, day-to-day driving.
I put a couple of my kids through a full-day Driver Confidence course that was run by the Golden Gate Audi Owners Group, and it was the best thing for both their skill level, and their confidence in their skill level — the two go hand-in-hand.
ALSO — hot tip — get the mirrors on the car adjusted to eliminate blind spots.
https://carobjective.com/when-adjusting-the-left-side-mirror-you-should/
“Experts” will tell you to set your side mirrors according to Figures 2 and 5. These “Experts” are instructing you to CREATE the very blind spots that mirrors are there to eliminate.
Set your side mirrors according to Figures 1 and 4 to shrink or even eliminate those blind spots. Parked, adjust the side mirrors so an object at the outer edge is JUST at the inner edge of the side mirror on that side.
A car overtaking on your left will be in your interior rearview mirror. As it nears, your view of it it will slide out of the left edge of the interior mirror, and slide into the inner edge of your left side mirror. By the time it has come up on you far enough to slide off the outer edge of your side mirror, it will be right there in the normal field of your peripheral vision where you would see it instantly with a glance to your left.
Same goes for the right side.
The ONLY annoyance about this setup is that not having the sides of your car in view makes curbside parking, and backing into parking spaces (which I HIGHLY recommend doing as a strategic move) more challenging. Power mirrors, though, mean it’s easy to get the view you need in a pinch, and that minor inconvenience is a very small price to pay for a panoramic view all the way around your vehicle when your out among the masses; be they unwashed or otherwise.
RE: BACKING INTO PARKING
Backing into parking (except for slanted parking) was recommended to me by my Insurance Agent years ago. The industry had the standing policy that, in a parking lot incident, if you were in Reverse and in motion, you were at-fault. Simple solution: back in on arrival, which is when you have the most control over the situation. This sets you up to drive forward on departure, which gives you the best view of everything around you. If you’ve ever had to creep out from between larger vehicles that greatly obstruct your view, you’ll appreciate the advantage of being able to just inch your nose out a little bit until you can see versus having to stick your tail out there relatively blindly. Not only in parking lots, but this strategy also works miracles for getting into, and out of, driveways on busy streets, or in a rural setting on a blind curve or beyond a crest in the road. The number of instances where you’re forced to “take a shot in the dark” is just GREATLY reduced, redounding to your elevated safety and reduced stress level.
Apologies for being long-winded, but I’m somewhat evangelistic about combating institutionalized habits that compromise safety in the name of “the way we always do it”; I’d far rather have friends and family arriving home alive and undamaged.
Happy Friday!
Commutes were weird this week, until today. [”Friday light” is actually a thing.] Pre-Memorial Day it was typically 45-55 minutes to my office. Every day this week was between 1:15 and 1:30, with the worst being Thursday morning when the natives were rattled by a bit of water settling down out of the sky. One of them wigged out and wrecked destroying the commute as far as 7 miles back from their crash site.
Kiddos are about to be done with this school year. My youngest will escape Middle School next Tuesday, then fly off on a trip to New York and Washington DC the following morning. Hard to fathom that she’s going to be in High School this Fall, but if I play my cards right, I could retire concurrent with her High School Graduation.
Advancing the ball on my plan to fly off to the islands of the Aegean next May, I think. I’m told I can get a visa to visit most EU countries is good for nearly all of them; the so-called Schengen Group of nations. That’ll be cool, because the flight I think I want to book includes a long lay over in Vienna; I’d love to get out of the airport and go downtown, take in the historic presence of the city, maybe tour St. Stephens, mingle with the locals, enjoy authentic bier and schnitzel... Planning to just go and be totally off radar for eight or ten days. I don’t know but what that level of inaccessibility might grow on me, tho...
Have to give that some consideration.
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Nice coda for a Friday.
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Being off the radar is a great idea. I need to try it myself some day.
Your itenerary sounds like an excellent way to start.
That all sounds very exciting. We made it through the day with no accidents or injury!
Vienna—pastries—yum!
Goodness …… prayers for safe days ahead for You and Yours.
Prayers all of US are safe to infinity and beyond, in Buzz’s words.
Thanks! There’s a driving program like that up in Concord at the racetrack. I don’t know if he would do it, though, and at 22, you can’t make him.
School almost over... nuts sharing the highways... traffic snarls... sounds like that Aegean Islands trips can’t come soon enough...
Good Saturday Morning!
Got a start on the excavation for the addition yesterday... a notable milestone in my book...
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