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.
We have just driven into Huntington where we will be having dinner at Jim's Steak and Spaghetti house.
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Thanks!
Looks like it was 50-50 at that point for you...
Late Kitteh much better than No Kitteh.
I hope you enjoyed it!
Good Morning!
I am happy that we are starting to get some days in which the dew point stays enough below the temperature in the early mornings to prevent having to wipe dew and sand off the feet of the puppies when they come in from the back...
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Getting a bit crazy here... the first word that popped into my head after seeing row one was already in the list... but a close variation wasn’t...
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Good morning. Happy Twosday!
It’s still near 70fs in the morning. We had some rain overinght - enough that I don’t have to water the grass this morning. We’ll see what today brings.
The rain came with thunder, which meant The Princess spent the night on the bed with us. Or, rather, with me. I had to fight for my spot on the bed. But she’s a sweet dog so it’s all OK.
Somehow, today, the first word that popped into my head after the one letter hint from my first guess was the right word. I guess I should buy a lottery ticket today. Except I probably already wasted my allotment of good luck on the Wordle.
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Thanks so much for the purrs. They are a big help.
Your luck was even better than mine! 👍🏻
Good morning. Although it wasn’t raining, things started to get soggy about 8:00 p.m. out at camp, and by 9:00 p.m., my library book was starting to feel damp, so I walked over to the dining hall and watched the end of the movie the Scouts were watching.
Everything was drenched this morning. A few drops of rain fell about 6:30 a.m., causing the Scouts to hurry up to finish taking down their tents and packing their gear.
I’d like to see the sun come out, so I can get my stuff dry before I have to use it again. Spreading things out in the garage is not the same!
Happy Tuesday...
Apathy is kicking in.
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Meh.
Yeah, airing out the tent doesn’t really work indoors.
Hopefully the scouts were watching an interesting movie.
I noticed gravity was particularly high this morning. I had to put extra power to the anti-gravity actuators to get out of bed.
Or, at least it felt that way, anyway.
Thankfully I had two teen boys who were happy to clean my plate for me. After having twice as much as I had already. And four refills of bread. And desert.
How do they not weigh 400 pounds?
Sounds like your area has been suffering from mighty high dew point temps... maybe you can spread it all out in the sun at home if it doesn’t appear before you leave...
A real master!
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
It seems The Princess still needs regular meds to keep her liver healthy. The good news is they haven’t decided to up her steroid. In fact, some of her current lab results indicate the steroid might be part of the problem. So there’s a second, targeted med that will help with the damage being done by the steroid as well as with some other indicators she has. I hope we’re not getting into a cycle where every pill has side-effects that need a new pill. Ungh.
We got a good rain yesterday. No more is in the guess until this weekend so I’ll be back to grass watering tomorrow.
Wordling was very normal today. Misssed getting it in 3 by THAT much.
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Good Midweek Morning!
Weather seems pretty consistent at this point... biggest question now is at what date will be see an overnight low in the 60s...
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The run of good luck has ended, back to normal!
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