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.
Sorry about the unghxiety factor. Check Engine lights were invented by someone who thought U.S. drivers were too carefree.
Sounds like you will be able to get the Impala out on the road for a bit...
As long as that ladder is standing there...
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Warning! Doez not petz da tummiez!
With all this cloud cover you’d think we could get SOME rain. The National Weather Services says we’re in a flood watch until noon. The local foreguessers say no rain is in sight. Those guys really should talk to each other.
My crown fit perfectly. No extra shaping once it was in my mouth.
Z: My neighbors won’t be bowing down to me, but I have lots of “royals” among my teeth. I have no idea how the commoner teeth take it.
We really should have started a round of Wordle golf yesterday.
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Good Morning!
A lot of times those “flood watches” stay in effect for the rain that has fallen previously... usually for the potential for water to head downstream and cause subsequent flooding... Good news about your crown, hope the other teeth show proper deference...
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I’ve been getting some good Wordle holes as well...
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If everyone is up for it, we could start another round next Wednesday... today’s 2 would have surely given you a leg up...
Good weather ahead for the weekend. Going to do a short road trip to Wisconsin...
https://www.thehouseontherock.com/
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Needs a pair of tires on the front end, but — yeah.
My daily driver is down hard as of yesterday evening.
Some seal or another gave out, and there’s lubricant all along the subframe crossmember; don’t know yet whether it’s engine oil or transaxle lube. Either way, if I have to give it to a shop it’ll be $X,XXX to fix.
A deuce! Good show!
I took the long way home.
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I often think of that when I see those signs... 🤣
That sounds familiar, did you go last year? Or planned to but didn’t make it...
Hopefully it isn’t too complicated and/or expensive... 🤞🏻
Planned... didn’t make it.
Tires aired up. Oil still looked good. Plenty of coolant.
Mounted the x360 mount and will probably run it for part of the trip there. Going to be going through some really nice geography. Couple days worth of clothes... swimsuit as the hotel has a pool... No tent this trip as I’m still rebuilding the tow-behind trailer.
Should be fun. I splurged a bit on the hotel. :-)
Good morning. Happy Friday!
We got some rain yesterday - about half an inch. Not bad for the grass but not enough for the shrubs/trees. I actually got caught in a downpour in a nearby burg when going for a doctor’s visit. But most of that water passed us by. The gentle rain was probably better.
I almost got the Wordle in 3. Almost being the operative word.
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Good morning. It rained hard for five minutes just as Kathleen and I got to Scouts last night, but out here in the ‘burbs, nothing. “They say” we may get storms this afternoon.
When I was about that age I raided my older cousins Korea souvenier trove and get a 45 cal round and held it with pliers over the gas burner until it went off. Fortunately, the slug projected into the pantry and into a plaster and lath wall where it remained undiscovered for 20 years. UNTIL a renovation contractor dug it out and asked the question if there was a shooting in the kitchen. Surprise!
You could put your eye out, kid!.................
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