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.
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I approve of garage sales, although... not sure their advertising company had their best interests at heart.
December 1st... This year has kind of flown by.
6” of snow on the ground from the last couple of days. 7 F right now here in Minnesota... It’s currently 82 F in Port Royal. I think I’m in the wrong place.
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Ah, thankyouverymush!
Yes, that’s life with cats.
To be fair, the cat is also an apex predator made of 14 billion year old stardust.
Kitteh looks like part porcupine.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
We have snow. It isn’t much so far. If this is what that noreaster did to this area then I’m glad I’m here.
Yesterday I went to look at the specs on the fridge we bought and found it was $200 cheaper than the day before. So I called Home Depot. He cancelled the order for me, re-ordered the cheaper one, and arranged for delivery on the same day we had originally set. Compared to the sales experience we had at the store when looking at fridges this was definitely good service.
Wordle took a lot of thinking today, but not a lot of guesses.
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11 F. None of the snow that fell over the weekend has melted... We have more on top for Thursday. I really don’t want to fire up my snowblower, it’s too close to admitting defeat and that Winter is here.
Got 90% of the Christmas shopping done yesterday. Not all of it from Amazon...
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Good Morning!
Hate to say it, but it sounds like Winter has set in up by you... it will end with a nice Spring... eventually! 😂
In contrast, hoping that our overnight low of 30° is the closest we see of freezing for a while... 🤞🏻
Took a good long time staring at this one...
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Maybe “The Men Who Stare at Goats” should be renamed to “The Men Who Stare at Wordle”! 🤣
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Sorry there was no kitteh this morning. My computer was upwhacked!
That’s OK. It was worth waiting for.
And I’m glad your computer is now downwhacked.
(actually it is Diaphragm massage but that does not fit with the rhythm)
It kept telling me websites were “crashed,” when they weren’t.
He lies on your pillow slobbering into your hair.
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