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.
Mini-me kitteh!
At this point the ‘streak’ was just a slight morning curiosity... before yesterday it was broken 3 times, once by an X/6, once when traveling and being unable to log in, and once by just forgetting to finish on a Sunday (about 287 days ago!)... I’m a daily addict regardless of the streak, so it really has lost its meaning...
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They’re great!
Happy Tuesday all Ya’all...
Cold, rainy, traffic was dumber than usual. On a client site until this afternoon. Plan on doing some roast beast for dinner.
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Mmmm, roast beast! 😋
Your comment reminds me of what Tommy Lee Jones said in “Men in Black”.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it!”
It was cold and drizzling, that was apparently enough for people to come to a complete stop in the middle of a 4-lane highway for no discernible reason.
I even picked up on my former Mother-in-laws secret for her gravy that was “so good, it was almost it’s own food group”.
No lumps and thick enough you can’t drink it through a straw, but you’d really like to try...
I’ve noticed that heavy traffic is like a slinky. If you stretch a slinky a bit, and then “tweak” one end a pulse will flow through the slinky. At the point of the pulse the parts of the spiral will be closer together. Elsewhere they will be farther apart.
Only in traffic, the pulse doesn’t travel through the traffic, the cars travel through the pulse. I’m not sure what starts them, but they can take a long time to dissipate. It may be that 20 minutes before you got there a deer caused the cars to stop.
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So, it turns out that one of the services my in-laws had determined it owed the estate money. So it sent a pre-paid debit card.
Really???!!! How do you deposit a pre-paid debit card into an estate account? What ever happened to checks?
Anyway, I bought an Amazon gift card with it and gave that to Mrs. ArGee. I then wrote a check for the same amount to the Estate account. I bought the Amazon card because I have found in the past it’s really hard to use a pre-paid debit card that only has a small amount of money left on it. But you can buy an Amazon card for funky amounts as long as it’s over $5 (or is it $10?).
Life in the modern world...
... it would probably sound like flatulence.
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