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 Friday Morning!
60° F with or without sunshine should go a long way to melting the ice...
Our foreguess is for 89° F today and I saw 91° F in Waco yesterday...
A lucky guess on row 2 led to this...
Wordle 1,364 3/6*
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You’re a better man than I, Gunga Din.
Both on riding in the cold and in today’s Wordle.
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I was happy to avoid that 2-5 trap!
If we ever get back to Wordolf, that will be a sand trap.
Exactly! I would be interested in trying another round…. Do you think that we could twist a couple of arms to make a foursome?
DC, are you game?
We may have to wait until Face gets back to find a fourth.
How about HKMK, do you still see him around?
What about it, HKMK? Want to go Wordolfing?
More Aatami than Gunga... Just sayin’...
No idea what that is... I’m genetically disposed to try to solve puzzles. It can some times consume a disordinate amount of my meat space time...
You guys are my FR family... How could I not try? Not because I want to belong, never that, but because curiosity would lead me where my FRiends are venturing...
I’m less present than in times past.
It’s not you; it’s me and my responsibilities.
But if you wanna cook up a round of Wordle Golf, I could get my nose in here long enough to hold up my end of the group.
It’s pretty simple. We just pay Wordle, but there’s a selected golf course with par values for each hole/day.
It adds some interest to the daily scores and we can use our imaginations to add golf lingo to the number of guesses we suffered. We try to pick courses with some good images to help our imaginations.
If we can find another, we’ll discuss the course and tee-time.
Well, we have four.
What say ye? Want to spend some time on the Florida beach?
https://www.pontevedra.com/things-to-do/golf/ocean-course
Good morning. Happy Monday!
We made it through the caregiver drama (at least unless there’s a surprise at the end).
We had a lot of rain last night. Most of the remaining snow is gone. The ice block under the recycle bin is gone so it can stand straight now. Looking at the upcoming temperature guesses spring appears to have sprung.
I don’t think I’ve ever met the queen of ducks. It looks like a fun party.
“Ducks are friends, not food!” Amiright?
My Wordolf practice rounds over the weekend were about like today’s effort.
Wordle 1,367 4/6*
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It looks good to me, I will see if I can get the scorecard setup over the next day or so, hopefully we can start on Wednesday...
Do we want to set it so that just M-F Wordles are used, S & S serving as in-game practice holes? Does that make it easier for everyone?
So, did I tee it up, grab it, or just miss it?
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