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.
We can recycle everything for free except televisions and very large computer monitors.
In fact, if I’d had a 40” monitor it would have been free. But because it was a TV, $30.
I think the Fun Mover was a V-16. It gave you lots of options and 6 to 7 mpg.
Our original dogs were great travellers. The TN dogs not so much.
Slated to be a little warmer this weekend than it has been this past week, which is a BUMMER because I need to be on the roof with a leaf blower prepping the gutters for the inevitable rains to come.
NOT looking forward to it. I’m fine planning to. I’m fine gathering tools, and scheduling when. And I’m REALLY fine being DONE. It’s that part in the middle that’s the hang-up. LOL.
Almost ran outta runway on this one. NOT that I was just “phoning it in” on this pre-holiday weekend Friday... Oh, no. Certainly not. If your eyes aren’t rolling, you’re sense of inference needs tuning.
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Good luck! At times like this, I’m glad our roof is higher than the nearby trees.
Our larger dogs travel fairly well, but they usually only go to the vet once a year... our Ausie rides along more in the cooler weather when she can safely be left in the truck for a reasonable period of time... but this little guy, can’t really go anywhere without some throwing up once or twice... we hope that he will outgrow it...
Yeah, it is that middle part!
Be safe up there!
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