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.
Well it was odd that I noticed it since I usually don’t ever scroll all the way to the top or bottom... just stay within the word list... for some reason I was at the top one day recently and saw it...
There was one week where I noticed he wasn’t updating the daily correct words at the very top. I thought maybe he was on vacation. Then I had the idea of doing a refresh.
Then there was the time I shortly after that knew I saw the word on the list but you assured me it wasn’t there. I looked and it was there. I refreshed and it disappeared. That’s when I learned my lesson.
Yes, now I hit refresh each morning before I start to consult it...
On a client site and running late for a meeting.
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Marking you down for a well played Par on 14, one under at 54 heading to 15..
We were pretty far down a hillside, but fortunately, there was better drainage.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
I’m glad to hear that this morning. I’m trying to figure out how to get all this new grass seed watered every day. This morning’s outing was not as fruitful as I would have liked. It didn’t help that I also had an appointment to get the oil changed in one of the cars, but at least that place is only a 5 minute walk (longer to drive, actually).
I played this hole just about perfectly. My drive left me with a nice lie on the fairway just before the bunker. A short drive put me on the green just beyond the pin with a putt of about 5 feet. It looked like it was going to break too far right but it caught the rim of the cup, rolled around and went in for par.
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Good Morning!
Looking forward to the dew point going down in about a week or so... 🤞🏻
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Back to a poor drive off the 15th tee... thankfully my fairway game has been good and I put it on the green with a beautiful 7 iron swing... pretty easy tap in for Par...
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Still at a 3 under 55 heading to 16...
Happy Tuesday...
Solid shot off the tee dropped me just to the right of the green. Wedge chipped me up to within a foot of the hole and an easy tap in.
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Ironically... It’s also what I have planned for dinner tonight.
A Par?
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Yes. 15 is a par 3.
More weather here, today. Warming. Drying. Fitna burst into flames. Or so they’re saying.
Accursed sensationalists.
Egad.
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Yes, but I was confused by the dinner reference...
Wedge salad?
I was just as lost. I was wondering about fish and “chips”.
https://www.taylormadegolf.com/wedges/?lang=en_US
Basically an iron with a very sharp face angle. Normally used for chipping out of the rough or bunkers.
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