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.
I’m OK with either. Does it make your scoring easier if you don’t have to try to track weekends?
I am OK either way as well... of course I will be playing 7 days a week... just had some vague memory of weekends being problematic for some... 🤷🏽♂️
“A golf course is a willful misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.”
That being said, I lost my mind a bit this morning... Told myself a 40 degree cut off for commuting via motorcycle. It was 35... Nearly froze my beard off on the way in. It’s not a big biker beard, but a socially acceptable “older IT dude” beard... so almost no cold weather protection for the face.
Still... 65 on tap for this afternoon... Had to be done.
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Good Monday Morning!
Looks like more Spring weather on tap... just hope that the winds don’t get out of hand here...
I guess that I should be glad that we didn’t start the round yet, had a rough weekend (4 & 5) and today’s so so...
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(I had a very interesting parallel between Saturday’s and today’s...)
Well you got there, face intact including beard, that’s the important thing...
My sanity can be questionable as long as the memory and other cognitive functions are intact. Coffee helps... :-)
Sacrifices must be made simetimes.
My parallel was yesterday’s and today’s.
Thank you. I wasn’t sure how many posts I had missed when I got distracted from finishing that one so I hedged my bets.
Coffee does help… on a daily basis!
Any updates from ‘Face?
M-F works best for me.
My weekends schedule tends to vary quite a bit often making getting online an iffy proposition.
Texted today. Said she was not doing very well right now.
Oh dear. I was starting to worry.
So was I, and I’m continuing to worry, but any response is better than no response.
why do you people hijack threads to broadcast your personal conversations to the world?...
why do you people insist on hijacking threads and broadcasting your personal conversations across free republic for the world to read?...
Because we’re nice people.
Sounds good, as usual get the hole posted when you can… I like to be up to date for the front nine tally, and of course a relatively timely closing of the round….
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