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.
Yes, everyone is very nice.
w00t!
Nicely snagged.
Sometimes they stay hidden for quite a while, then just jump out at you...
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Is it breakfast time?
It’s staying cool up here, although it was warmer than yesterday. It rained much of yesterday but that seems to be it for a while.
Life has become calm here - the calm before the storm. The buyers want another walkthrough tomorrow because one of the sets of parents hasn’t seen the house yet. So we’re trying to keep everything spiffy until tomorrow evening.
B-I-L is coming early September to finish moving his stuff out of the house into storage.
Today was another “stare for a while” Wordle day, but it finally came to me.
Wordle 1,524 4/6
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Eggs for breakfast. Scrambled with some cheese and fresh chives sprinkled on top. Black Folger’s to drink...
It’s Thursday... Weeeee....
Wordle 1,524 5/6
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Good Morning!
I’m scheduled for eggs today as well, not sure what kind they will be...
Another ‘sacrificial’ row two word pays off... after a lot of face scrunching....
Wordle 1,524 3/6*
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I read somewhere that if the first and last letters are correct in a word the rest can be very misspelled and our brains will correct the word.
Your Wordle looks like that’s what happened for you.
Just not a word I use very often. I don’t do the Hints, so this is all “does this fit? no. does this fit? no. Does this fit?”...
Dragon?
Chicken, I should have said “not sure how they will be prepared!”
😂
I didn’t even know there were hints.
I do look for whether a word I want to enter has already been used. I run into words that have been a lot now.
My mind went in the same direction, except my options were a little more mundane.
I suppose if you’re really hungry you’d ask for T-Rex.
That’s what I mean by a ‘sacrificial’ word.... one that I know has been used, but the letters appear to be useful in making progress in some way.....
😂
I need to show that to Mrs. zz......
Very good. I took Kathleen to the orthodontist and then had a meeting with my financial planner. These were not related, just coincidental.
Who needs T-Rex when you’ve got T-Bone? </Mott the Hoople>
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