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.
Yes, I heard about that.... supposed to be good viewing at 8:20 CST but it will still be daylight here so I don’t think the coloration will be very visible...
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
It’s hot. Tell the kittehs to stay inside where there is AC.
Young ArGee’s cat has pancreatitis. But the diagnosis came with her not really wanting to eat. The cat is 15 years old and it’s an inside cat so young ArGee was counting on at least 3 more. She’s found some salmon topper for the cat that is making the food more interesting for now. If the cat is eating regularly for “a while” they’ll start trying foods that might help with teh pancreatitis.
It doesn’t help that Mrs. ArGee is allergic to cats and can’t visit or help out.
The Wordle outing was decent today. Not as satisfying as getting EMCEE in 3 last weekend, but still good.
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Good Morning!
Sorry to hear about YAG’s cat, hopefully it will start eating some more...
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Thought that I had it in three... but no...
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EMCEE took me 5 on Sunday... odd word for: the Evening’s Master of Ceremonies... my guess is that it first appeared in Hollywood Reporter sometime in the 1950s...
I’ve seen MC spelled out for a long time. It was like reading Cee-Three-Pee-Oh in Star Wars writing. Really? It’s C3PO.
Haha, yes I’ve seen that as well... made me wonder why... some kind of odd style book?
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Well, the scratching post looks nice.
So true.
Not sure why I thought the NYT would use a word like the old term for Young Urban Professionals for a word...
Had to drive through one of the worst parts of Minneapolis today on Abby... Heavy smell of dope smoke and unwashed bodies... Homeless encampments are a plague up here.
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It’s pristine, I’m sure.
Hottish at my house.
Nice-ish at my office.
History will go on to show that The Judiciary was the weakest link in the American Experiment. They’ve racked up quite a track record thus far, with no end in sight.
LIGHT READING:
https://fee.org/articles/15-supreme-court-decisions-that-shredded-the-constitution/
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Exactly so!
Very true... I can recall many years ago having a really well made couch that folded out into a well made queen size sleeper... the cat tore his way through one end and made a tunnel in that couch that he could hide and hang out in... sigh...
I guess that all larger cities are plagued by that stuff now... terrible...
And just imagine the damage added since 2012...
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
It’s hot. It’s already 81 out and the “real feel” is 86. Tomorrow is guessed as the high right now, with things starting to go back on Friday.
I wasn’t sure this word was spelled this way. There’s still something to be learned from Wordle.
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Good Midweek Morning!
Well it is only 77° F at the moment, with a 93% relative humidity level, what that translates to is: rather sticky...
As usual, glad to be done with shopping for the week, thus able to enjoy being at home for the rest of it...
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Good Solving! 👍🏻
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