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.
A Late Good Midweek!
Had to wake up well before dawn to get Guin to the vets to be spayed... having her go into heat in the house once was enough! Came home, did some chores and fell right back to sleep...
One of my sisters said it has been raining like crazy in OH for the past couple of days...
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Boneheaded move from the onset, barely scrapped by...
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Nice Wordling!
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Woo Hoo!
EBay... Coming via USPS.
Although... looking at another bike. 2001 Honda. Low miles, decent price. Might go look at it Saturday.
I still have the ‘84 Honda... but fuel issues are the bane of that things existence. I need to pull the tank again and re-route/plumb the fuel lines as it’s acting like it’s just not getting enough fuel. 3 fuel pumps... second set of carbs... compressions test...
I’m at my wits end with that thing and it’s obvious I NEED, yes NEEEEEEED, a second bike for when Abby is offline.
Can’t imagine what is up with the 84 after doing all of that... but yes, it would be nice to have a reliable backup for when Abby needs to be off the road... your health and well being is at stake!
Not sure I could get my Doc to write a prescription and buy something nicer as a medical write-off.
Never know until you try!
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Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Hopefully Abby will get some good news today.
I’m back to watering the new grass areas today. We may get some rainfall this weekend but for now it’s irrigation.
Wordle went OK today, but not like yesterday.
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Good Thursday Morning!
Hard to keep one small puppy recovering from surgery calm with another wild puppy in the same house... pray for us!
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Talk about a struggle session...
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I hear ya. They just don’t seem to understand.
happy Thursday...
Notification from USPS that instead of the delivery being before 9PM... that it will be between 9AM and 1130 AM... Might be able to actually ride to the client appoint I have this afternoon if I can get the rear tire re-installed and showered up before then.
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Not very much...
Good news!
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Eh... thunderstorm moving through the area about when I’d need to take off...
I’m not averse to riding in the rain... just not when I’m heading to a client. Showing up looking like a partially drowned bear doesn’t give the appearance of professionalism I’d prefer to portray.
Although... this is an agriculture company.
If this is the biggest decision I need to make today, I think I’ll be ok. :-)
Sounds like it!
Speaking of decisions, I struggled way too long yesterday afternoon trying to decide between Ship to Store or Ship to Home on a tool I was ordering from HD... I told my son that I must be getting old.... 😂
I can remember one night when I was up way too late working on a paper (back in my college days, before word processors and such) and I was struggling to figure out the correct spelling of a common word. When I finally realized what I was doing I went to bed.
It was “of”. I was trying to figure out why neither ov nor ove looked right.
Good luck!
I remember typing a paper in high school and the word “then” didn’t look correct to me... I kept seeing it as “t hen” and it didn’t make sense to me... it was also very late! 😂
Actually Arthur is being very god with her... he can tell that she is not herself and has been pretty chill around her all day... that is a big relief for us!
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