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.
Hi T-C...
Did you have a good weekend?
Weather was very mild here with just a couple spots on rain on Saturday. Ana, my oldest, turned 22. Time flies and all that...
Happy Monday!
Redacting body parts while trimming the topiary is frowned upon by spouses and medical professionals alike.
Be care which static group you end up in. :-)
Hopefully it is an enjoyable one!
I’m glad to know they got that time warp thing figured out.
Gosh, 22. A little older than James: he’ll be 22 in January.
I think we were doing stuff all weekend, because I can’t remember much. I guess it was okay. Tom came over on Saturday, and Pat came over on Sunday. They do their laundry here.
It was hot here. Frank did NOT mow the lawn. Oh, I remember Frank went to his friend’s house to help him dismantle part of the wrecked truck he’s rebuilding.
Kathleen had an orthodontist appointment at 8:00 this morning. Then we went to Walmart, and then we worked in the warehouse for the food bank for a couple of hours. Frank and Vlad have school today, should be back pretty soon, and then Frank can mow the lawn.
Does James celebrate the birth of his hair on the same day?
Busy, busy, busy!
Some kids we know have braces, but Kathleen will have Invisalign.
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