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.
Good that you’re safe, sounds like it was too close for comfort….
Good morning. Happy Monday.
My Lego blocks!
As of today The Princess has gone 20 months without a seizure.
It was another 60 degree morning. The phone said it was raining lightly, but it had stopped by the time we got outside. I managed to cut the grass yesterday. I raised the mower to the highest setting and was still able to see where it was being cut. That was gratifying after the hot dry period we had.
I had a pretty good Wordle weekend with a streak of 3s extending into today.
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Good Monday Morning!
It was a pretty restful weekend that went by quickly...
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Better today after a couple of 4s over the weekend...
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That is great news about the Princess! 👍🏻
Happy Monday...
I have exactly a half days worth of work scheduled for this week. This means I need to go scrape through our ticketing system EVERY day this week looking for billable time to justify my salary.
I hate this. Why do we have managers and coordinators when WE’RE having to fill out or time ourselves?
When I joined this company... I had just two requirements... Let me play with new stuff... Keep me busy.
Failing on both counts.
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What’s the new stuff these days, quantum computers?
Meh... just... anything at this point.
PoE++ switches with 10GB to the desktop. Petabyte NAS clusters. Layers of internal firewalls. Azure/AWS architecture and application space. ZTNA.
Chips, dips, chains whips... You know, your basic High School orgy type of thing. /Weird Science.
Congratulations to the Princess on her streak!
Prayers up for the Princess. My little dog is dying. I’m a wreck.
I’m so sorry to hear that.
I’m so sorry S.G. I know how hard it is to lose a pet, even when it’s due to their age. Young ArGee is a wreck because her cat won’t eat the prescription food she needs.
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Good morning. Happy Twosday!
That might be a good way to make sure the hooman feeds the kitteh, but it could backfire if the hooman needs coffee.
It’s still cool in the mornings. I double-checked the calendar to make sure I hadn’t missed a couple of months. Nope! Still August.
My boss is coming back today from a week off taking both her kids (twins) to college. I’m sure she’ll be a bit of a mess for a while. At least our kids left home in stages.
I broke my 3 streak this morning. But considering the results of the first two guesses, it wasn’t bad.
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Sorry to hear that, SG... it is tough losing a precious one... 😢
Good Morning!
Not much new here, it may be the start of a bit of cooling soon... hoping that the peak temperature (not heat index!) of 113° F the other day won’t be topped... 🤞🏻
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Rough journey in the Sea of Green today...
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“If I fits... I sits...”
Hopefully he is not on top of the beans.
70 and Sunny on a Tuesday.
I have a tub, motorcycle and car parts, and some Halloween craft supplies on order.
Remodeling the upstairs bathroom.
Fixing the Caddy in time for Winter.
Getting the old Honda motorcycle running and the newer Honda road worthy the way I like to ride.
RenFaire, Viking Fest, and Halloween coming up. Gotta get my costumes and animatronics up and running.
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That “sea of green” comment makes me think of this old song about Green River whisky and and a husband’s excuse to his wife.
Well I was floatin’ down the ol’ Green River
On the good ship Rock & Rye
I drifted too far
Got stuck on a bar
I was out there alone
Wishin’ I was home.
Well that ship went down with her captain and crew.
There was only one thing that I could do.
I had to drink that whole Green River dry
To get back home to you!
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