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 managed to squeeze about arf an inch of snow out of the clouds last night...
I remember some sci-fi movie (made-for-TV?) from my yut that posited a worldwide network of underground trains.
It would be cool if we got a nationwide network of underground water storage and piping so areas that flood could quickly get their water to areas of drought.
There’s a green proposal I could get behind.
Elon and The Boring Company love you...
Take water from where it is flooding to where there is drought.
Good Morning!
Looks like we are settling in to a fairly normal Spring-like weather pattern... some chilly overnights here and there, and some warmer days mixed in as well...
I don’t believe that I have ever had a row two outcome like today’s... not sure if I have ever had a row one like that either...
Wordle 1,356 3/6*
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That was my thought... sounds like a job for The Boring Company...
Happy Thorsday...
20 degrees this AM going to 40+ later today. Hopefully, it’ll melt the snow in my driveway before I get home. I hate blowing it out this time of year because it never seems to stick around more than a day or two...
Wordle 1,356 3/6
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But now consider... you have what, 17’? In 2 dimensions? With which to share that road with other cars?
Now think that you have thousands of feet in every direction... Quite a bit of it on a GPS enabled “highway in the sky” system that the FAA has been draggin’ it's feet on for a couple of decades because... muh bureaucracy...
Good morning, Upnorth person!
I never had the impression my cats could read.
Nice Wordle!
I guess it depends on how much shade you have on the driveway... and of course, how much snow needs to melt!
If we decided to do something to shift water from where there’s too much to where there’s not enough, it would be solved.
Nully is right. Elon needs to take this on.
Maybe we can even put hydroelectric generators along the path that will return some of the energy it costs.
Remember that Row 2 word for when you need a new starter.
Until you're all going to the same parking lot.
I used to work at a GE plant with a huge parking lot. There were many entrances to the lot but only one door to the building. So cars used to flow in a reverse delta, ignoring the lanes, and you had to look in every direction for the one that was aiming to hit you.
Do that in 3D? No, thank you very much.
BTW: I have over 40 hours in the cockpit from a long time ago.
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Good idea!
Good Morning T-C...
Any storms in your AO that you are having to weather?
Congestion alleviation can be built directly into the system whereas now there is literally nothing you can do but drive defensively.
The perceived benefits FAR outweigh the real or imagined negatives.
No, not at the moment. We had rain and high wind yesterday morning. Now it’s just the normal stuff.
James says it’s “demotivating” when we tell him he should get a full-time job.
Did anyone think yesterday’s Wordle was a little jargony? I mean, I know it’s also a sports term, but not a super-popular sport.
That’s OK, dogs can’t spell.
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