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.
Lol. He doesn’t look too thrilled to be sharing his bed!
Kittens are very intimidating.
Such a little kitty, and already with the attitude. Dog knows it - LOL!
Pecking order firmly established.
w00t!
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
LOL! We know who wears the pet pants in that family.
We had a decent amount of rain yesterday. The Princess is getting a little better about eating when there’s thunder in the area. Mrs. ArGee has to stay by her and let her know it’s safe, but at least she eats.
I have some screens I need to get to the repair shop. They’re off the windows and sitting in the back of the car. It’s just a matter of when I can get there.
Nothing special about today’s Wordle.
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Good Morning!
Same, same... very warm and humid in the mornings (at least the dew point is staying low enough to prevent everything getting wet), and hot and drier in the afternoons... typical Central Texas August...
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It was a bit of a struggle session...
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Thanks, didn’t even realize at the time...
Happy Tuesday...
Parts for Abby, according to tracking #, is leaving Florida today. Supposed to be here by Saturday at the latest.
However, we are right now having a relatively cool and dry week of absolutely beautiful riding weather...
FML
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That’s always the way. It’s too bad you couldn’t just go get the parts and get a trip to Florida out of it.
I’d want to take my bike on a trip like that...
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Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
Young ArGee saw some of that nasty midwest weather yesterday. She said it shut down her school and delayed the first day of classes which had been scheduled for today. Fortunately, she and her cat are safe with no loss of power.
I guess I won’t be complaining about the weather here today. (Tomorrow, probably, but not today. 🙂)
I certainly won’t be complaining about the Wordle today.
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It is the Humphiest of Days. The Eve of Friday Eve.
Weather’s nice. Abby is still waiting on parts...
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That would be nice.
Ship notification... Part for Abby should be here tomorrow. Yay!
Ugh, waiting for parts can be grim... especially with the shoddy delivery service we’ve been having of late... Amazon switched to using USPS for a lot of our stuff a month or so ago... first few times were great... been very downhill ever since... two totally lost packages that had to be re-ordered... bumping the time from order to receiving it to over 2 weeks... sigh
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