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.
Me too.
Then go to another post a hole.
F U
24 years I knew Face... We talked on Facebook and elsewhere... I know she visited you at your home...
I am not emotionally equiped to handle this right now.
Damn, this hurts.
I’m not on FR much anymore. I just wanted to hea others talk about Face.
i’ve been a problem child for the people that have been pushing the kung flu vaccines on free republic for the past 5 years...
It doesn’t make it easier to lose them like this.
Still... We will see them again some day...
I have faith.
Advise you not be a problem child on Free Republic.
I’m so sorry. Prayers for her loved ones.
Thanks Boss... I’ll pass it along.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4281026/posts?page=2259#2259
Considering we just lost Monkey Face and he says that bit there..
That’s a problem.
Yes, she did: twice. Frank was a toddler the first time. We watched “Lord of the Rings” movies and drank pink wine and diet 7-up. I had hoped to visit her in scenic Utah, but it’s hard to get away from my life. I had to fight for the week off when my mother died back in March.
I’m not here that much, either. Cat pictures and a little chat. I don’t know how I’m so busy, with only two school-age children left.
Wow, you’re a nasty POS.
She’ll get to meet Steve, my late spiritual director, now, so that’s cool. Two people with a sense of humor.
Life intrudes, derails plans.
Happens.
Hard to believe that the Undead Thread has been a thing for 21 years.
The Undead appreciate your sentiments, Jim, and we’re grateful that you provided the venue for all of us to meet.
Was it Vlad who was born when we launched into space, or Frank? My life is a blur ...
Frank “the new guy”.
We celebrated the event in thread.
I think Vlad was still little at the beginning.
2300, in your memory.
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