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.
Click here for some photos (not done by us) of where we were.
So a fine time was had by all. All the family is well although a bit more frail and I expect we will be getting a couple of phone calls before the year is out. Although maybe not. My aunt was suppose to have died six years ago and she is still chugging along. She said she was going to live until her grandsons were settled. The last one has graduated college and has a job near by. Not sure if she considers that "settled" or if she is waiting for him to find a nice young lady, get married and present her with great grand children to be "settled". Would not bet against her. 83 and still shows up to work four days a week.
I still say this was not a vacation.
I was only gone two weeks. How did the back room get in this big a mess?
It is good to be home.
That kind of thing is why I’m never gone for two weeks.
Sally and Georgia and I went to Petsmart to get cat food. I wanted to adopt the cats, but I restrained myself. Georgia wanted the colorful fish.
Good Morning!
Very nice markings there!
I’m getting to the Wordle earlier of late since the inside puppies are starting my day earlier for me... I’ve been wondering if it is because Mrs. zz is away... maybe they will sleep better when she returns... 🤞🏻
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A good second row guess helped a lot...
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Good morning. Happy Twosday!
It’s become difficult to find enough 99% lean organic or natural ground turkey to feed the dog for a week. It takes 9 1lb Nature’s Promise packages. Yesterday I was able to find 3 in the local supermarket. The brand we used to buy now sells 98% instead of 99%. I don’t know how important that 1% is, but the nutritionist said 99% so that’s what we buy.
Today’s Wordle went OK.
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That could be why. Mrs. ArGee says The Princess acts differently when I’m gone but am normally here.
It would seem to me that 98% would be okay, but I am not a nutritionist.... 🤷🏽♂️
Well, this waking up an hour early started on the first morning that she wasn’t here... we’ll see at the end of the week...
Happy busy week Tuesday.
Got the jetski running... Just need to get a title/registration fixed.
LONG day on a client site the other day. Walked into a poop storm and did a lot of fast talking to get the client down off the chandelier...
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The “prescription” recipe we have calls for 99% lean ground turkey plus some amount of chicken fat. So they’re trying to manage the amount of fat pretty carefully. We’d probably have to call the University of Tenn people back if we shifted to 98%.
Ahhh, maybe you will need to contact them...
Glad to know that!
Very true!
Gut Mittwochmorgen!
She/he sees those birds up there!
Warm and dry... that’s the ticket!
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They spotted me a lot today...
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Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
Kitteh is thanking God it isn’t Monday.
It’s still decent temps in the mornings and very warm during the day. I decided to take the risk that the foreguess of some rain this morning is accurate. The grass is doing very well right now so it’s not much of a risk.
Decent showing on Wordle again today, although not matching what the Z-man did.
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When they give you two greens and two yellers, it is hard to miss!
Wednesday... Sunny... cooler.
Saga of the jet ski continues. Hit up DMV to try to register. Title was signed by executor of previous owners estate and I have an auction receipt. Nope... need a signed affidavit, notarized of course, from the executor that previous owner is in fact... dead.
This was last year. I wasn’t going to jump through the hoops of registration if I couldn’t get it running, which I just did. No idea how to get ahold of this person.
*sigh*
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