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.
Happy Monday... It is Monday isn’t it?
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Crossing things off is the goal.
Yeah, you never know. Tom and James were never that great at keeping track of the cat.
Update on young ArGee’s cat.
It needs a steroid. All the steroids liquids are flavored. The cat doesn’t like the flavor of any of them and is not eating. Young ArGee is now looking for pills and a pill crusher to try to put the steroid on the cat’s food.
Young ArGee herself has major lacerations on her right thumb, her right index finger, and her left arm. She has been able to make a precision grip with her right hand only within the last 24 hours.
Young ArGee is making Mrs. ArGee glad she is allergic to cats.
It is Monday, indeed.... sigh
Wow, she got quite cut up there... thankfully it isn’t worse... hopefully that cat gets on track soon!
I’m very sorry about all the cat trauma!
Yes. Young ArGee is very distraught. She thinks the time is near for her cat.
She has a double whammy going on, not only the impending loss of her cat, but also recovering from her injuries...
Two, too, to, Tuesday, good morning!
Not much to say about the weather here, other than it seems that August came a bit early...
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Not a bad Wordle start to the day...
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Tuesday... Windy... cooler. Supposed to be mid-70’s and sunny.
Two client on-site appointments... Going to be hopping on Abby and riding here in about ten minutes...
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Good morning. Happy Twosday!
Yesterday’s temp didn’t hold. It was 70 when I walked The Princess this morning. That’s not bad, though. It IS still July.
I’m getting a little tired of thinking my job is more like a nursery school teacher than a Program Manager. What is it about adults that makes it so hard for them to act like adults?
I have no idea how 2 completely blank rows lead me to this Wordle answer.
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Sounds great, enjoy the rides!
No idea, but it's why I studiously avoided management positions in my entire engineering career.
I don’t know, but I’d rather deal with 20 Cub Scouts than a few of their parents.
Sunny and blue across the whole Bay, today. A perfect day to skipper a yacht if ya have one. No stiff breeze, so no nasty chop out there to battle... Gonna be toasty inland at my house, tho.
Started awake last week realizing the District has got the kids slated to go back to school AUGUST 5th!
AUGUST!
Unbelievable how they just rip these kids off; they get so little of their own childhood, anymore.
No wonder they act like children so much longer, now; they’re rebelling against having it stripped away from them when they were little.
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Hard to indoctrinate those little skulls full of mush if their parents keep getting access to ‘em.
Community college starts here about a week after that.
Wow, August 5th is really early! What is the usual date for the end of the school year?
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