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.
Why were we in a hurry to teach them to talk?
Play on this third hole began just as the last two with no real distance off the tee. I drew a fairway wood to try compensating for the modest tee shot by covering some real estate on the second and meet with some success. Still, it made for a long third stroke, but I got into that solidly with a five iron that carried well and gave me high hopes of making par, here. I risked a little distance on the final approach shot trying not to overshoot the pin. Happily, the risk met with ample return and I watched as a lofted 9-iron shot dropped the ball right into the heart of the green, where it hopped a couple of times, struck the flag staff, and dropped neatly into the cup. The Birdie here cancels out my Bogie on 2, and I’ll stroll into the weekend at even par.
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Good show!
Are you going anywhere interesting for this vacation?
Enjoy!
Nice!
Going someplace fun?
Lake Nantahala in the far west of North Carolina, near basically nothing but trees.
‘long about the third one, we realized it was a mistake, but it was too late.
Sounds wonderful! Enjoy it!
It is a good thing that they have child locks on those cabinets!
My cat used to do that with the base cabinet where we kept the Wheat Thins. She loved Wheat Thins.
Cat know where the “Temptations” be hid.
Interesting.
I get dry salami and various cheeses to snack on, and try to keep a spread of crackers around to have with them. Wheat Thins are almost always in that mix. I thought to read the ingredients one day and found that sugar features prominently. Maybe need to rename them “Wheat Thiccs”
Happy Weekend one and all.
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Too bad I can’t “bank” this one for Monday’s Assault on the 4th hole...
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We used to keep the baby food and the cat food in the same cabinet. Both of them would sit in front of it and point and wail.
That’s funny!
Publication notice: Morning Kitteh service will be suspended during my vacation and will resume Monday, June 15. Please use the list on my profile to share kittehs among yourselves.
That kitty looks like my Darth-Ann. Beautiful!
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