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.
There weren’t many words I could think of starting with those 3 letters and many were already taken. When I thought of the winning word I wasn’t sure but it was the only combination of letters that I could pronounce.
True, when you look at your row two result... not much available... but, good show getting to row two...
Happy July 1st and it’s raining...
Wordle 1,838 4/6
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I must have missed that one... not sure of who any of them are... 🤷🏽♂️
Must be your turn in the barrel... hopefully it dries out by the weekend... 🤞🏻
That’s from the ending of the movie “Titanic”. Of course, there were no cats in the movie.
Ahh, okay, thanks…
If memory serves it must be Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio… but I don’t recognize either in that picture…
I recognize a rather young Leonardo DiCaprio. I wouldn’t have recognized Kate, either.
Did you get some early morning rest or have some major early morning distractions?
Here’s hoping you got some rest.
Distraction: I went outside for a walk before it got too hot.
Wordle 1,838 4/6
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I object.
That’s NOT how this word is spelled, unless you’re a de-evolutionist orc. The rot is just pervasive...
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
I never saw the movie Karate Kitteh. It looks like it was a good one.
It was almost 80 fs when I walked the princess this morning. Ugh! Fortunately the official guess is for temps to start moderating Saturday with some rain. We’ll be glad for both.
When you start your Wordle with this many useful letters it’s hard to score badly.
Wordle 1,839 2/6
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There are two words... one has an “E” at the end...
Good Morning!
It is getting slightly less humid each day, and the dew point has been easing down a bit... progress...
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It would have been a great score if we were golfing...
Wordle 1,839 3/6*
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Happy Friday Eve...
Was looking forward to riding my bike up to my Sister’s place this weekend... T-storms on tap from now until Sunday... 3rd washed out 4th in a row.
Waiting to see what the weather radar says later... I need a two hour window where I’m not being threatened with high winds and/or hail... Might still do it anyway out of sheer spite.
Wordle 1,839 3/6
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It actually irks me more when older people do that... my MIL is 83 and for some odd reason she feels compelled to use that gibberish when texting....
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