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 love Tom, but it’s not bad when he doesn’t come by for a while. He’s just so large.
James said Tom was at Sally’s last night. I don’t know if other people were invited, but only brothers were there.
First w00t of the new year!
Thank you for the compliment but am not awesome. Am only me.
Happy First Thursday Eve of the New Year!
Great looking calico!
Maybe Tom has found other washing machines to use. One can only hope.
It’s 68° in the bedroon, 75 in here, and 33° outside! Br-r-r!
It’s pill sorting day, so that’s all I need to think about for the moment.
Good morning. It’s cold here, too. Kathleen has gone to walk the neighbor’s dog. I will do some things today, but it will have to wait until the rest of the world is open.
w00t!
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
We had a quiet New Year’s Eve/Day. We decided to watch both parts of “Dune.” I was a little disappointed in the way they changed it. I don’t normally mind when they change a book for a movie, but this change bothered me. Oh, well.
Young ArGee is on her way back home so we’ll start to figure out how we’re going to treat this year. First problem: Do we renew the lease on this place.
I had a par Wordle yesterday but a very good one today.
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Good morning. I hope things work out successfully for your family in the new year.
We don’t have to decide whether we’ll keep living in the same place: we can’t afford anywhere else.
I could go get some grapes, because Lin’s is open, but it’s too cold. I’d go have Casey winterize the Raisin, today, but I think he may still be out for the holiday season.
Once he’s done that, I’ll just leave it in the car for the hot days, as well.
My Screaming Shower is supposed to be fixed today, finally, but no telling what time. Probably afternoon, if I’m not mistaken. Tyler seems to be the unofficial official handyman, now, and that’s good. He’s young, but easy on the eyes and has a pleasing demeanor. Good choice by Bethany!
I slept on my side so long last night that my hip hurt and wouldn’t let me stay asleep. I don’t do that often, thank goodness. Maybe I should consider one of those foam mattress covers?
Thanks, Guys! It was just sitting there....
I liked the book “Dune,” but I never could get into the movie, probably because they had to leave so much out of it. That was about as disappointing as the first release of LOTR, back in the ‘70’s. Even my kids were disappointed in that!
Here’s hoping your family has a better year this time around than the last one.
I didn’t do the Wordle yesterday, but I should probably do it today. Just to keep my brain in. ;o]
The first one of the new year!
Well, in the Gregorian calendar, anyway.
Good Morning!
It has been a bit hectic here for the new year... our daughter came to stay and brought 3 grands and a dog... the dog is not too bad as she is an older dog and very mellow... put it this way, my wife and I had been waiting 2 weeks to watch the UT playoff game that was played yesterday... with all of the chaos and confusion going on, we plumb forgot all about it until it was over... at least UT won the game...
Better Wordle today, had a tough 5 yesterday...
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Very true!
You make me think of the scene from “The Blind Side” where the family was grabbing food to eat in the family room in front of football, but Michael Oher was sitting at the dining room table. The Mrs. called everyone into the dining room to give Michael a “traditional” Thanksgiving celebration and the family complained, “But football!!!”
Nobody complained after the dinner.
That was a very good one!
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I remember that movie, I enjoyed it... but then I recall that there was some controversy about the family that emerged afterwards... I can’t remember what it was all about....
I just went to the store and thought I would freeze before I got home. The temperature hasn’t moved from when I got up at 0520 — 33°. That was over three hours ago!
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