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.
I hope you have a good night. We’re supposed to have pleasant weather in the coming week.
I’ll probably have toast again tomorrow, as well as make some bread. It’s the least I can do.
I’m hoping the queasiness goes away, soon.
At any rate, I’ll talk to you before I head over to wash clothes. No dryer, this time! Maybe I’ll get a real nap!
Sleep tight!
Off to wash clothes!
I didn’t sleep well, so no telling when I’ll get up when I take my “nap.”
At any rate, see ya in a bit.
Good morning. I hope the wash goes smoothly, and I’ll see you whenever.
Wash is done!
A polydactyl cat! You don’t see many of those!
Good morning. How was your night?
I’m still a little iffy this morning, so I’ll set the alarm for 0800 and see how I feel when I wake up.
Nothing is planned except for hanging the clothes, and that’s going to happen no matter how I feel. I’ll have a couple of crackers and head back to bed and when I get up I’ll have Second Breakfast of toast. Again.
So I’ll see you in a few hours. ;o]
Good Morning. An intense kittah to start the day. Good choice, imho.
Prayers you rest well.
Thank you, N-t-i! You’re always so good to me!
I hope you had a good Christmas!
Good morning. He has many toes!
She looks a little like my Maris Crane, but Maris has some red. Same eyes.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
We had some very cold weather going into yesterday. But the freezing rain foreguessed for Saturday morning didn’t appear. It was a little warmer Saturday and is now in the low 50s. Most of the snow has melted off.
I tried to return some boots at Eddie Bauer on Saturday but their new return policy is that shoes/boots bought online can’t be returned to the store, so we have to mail them back, and I fought the mall traffic for nothing.
M-I-L had a very bad day yesterday. We wondered if she had had a mini-stroke. We got her into bed and she seemed a little responsive. We’ll see what today holds.
At least it is starting as a good Wordle day. A slightly better guess and I could have hit 2/6.
Wordle 1,290 3/6*
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Freezing rain not appearing is always a good thing!
Sorry to hear about MIL... will keep praying for the best...
Good Monday Morning!
We’ve had about a week of this awful DAMP, HUMID weather and are hoping that today makes a break... I see sunshine out there already, so there is hope...
Very tough Wordle weekend for me... Saturday was not too bad with a 4, but I simply could not see a row 5 guess yesterday... left it a few times and came back, then I got busy and totally forgot about it... I realized this morning that I left it incomplete, and looked up what the word was... I ‘should’ have been able to get it....
So today’s par is not bad considering...
Wordle 1,290 4/6*
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Is that cat named Poly?
Is this year over yet?
Wordle 1,290 2/6
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Better luck there than on the MegaMillions lottery. only won $2...
Almost!
Great job on the Wordle front! 👍🏻
I had heard that the drawing was going to be something like $1.2 billion... had no ticket, so was not in the running...
We’re in real trouble!
A cat with thumbs...
We noticed that the new Lambchop toy we got for the new puppy has thumbs....
(puzzled thoughtful look)
Uh oh...
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