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.
Good Morning All!
Mrs. zz and I are a bit tired this morning as we went to see the Vienna Light Orchestra Christmas show in Waco last evening... The show was fantastic (music, arrangements, song selection, voices, scenery, choreography!) and well worth the driving... but it made us realize that we really don’t like being out after dark...
Hoping that Princess can keep her streak going... 🤞🏻
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Good morning. I’m glad you made it back safely! Brenda from the science team got a puppy and a kitten in the last few weeks. I think she’s having a mid-life crisis.
Happy whatever day it is... Things are starting to get a bit blurry.
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Pets are very comforting. They’re good at any age. Although Mrs. ArGee doesn’t think she wants another one because of how stressed she gets over their problems.
She’s trying to find a groomer for The Princess. The first one she checked out has a policy that if the pet arrives with fleas they give it a flea preventative. And we think that’s how her seizures started. Apparently that behavior on the part of groomers is a thing here.
pookie18!
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I wonder who would win a staring contest between a Vorlon and a kitteh.
A billion year old alien or a minion of chaos...
Close call.
Our vet said that she would be a good dog for breeding if we wanted.
I wish to let the record show that I was hustled by the cubs with the help of their father and grandfather.
I tend to name the animals with a species included. So George was George the Cat, Evangeline is Evangeline the Cow, Lily is Lily the Dog and so on.
The younger got to name the puppy. They decided to name her Patricia. Do you see what is coming? I didn't. Not until a couple of weeks later when I realized we now had "Pat the Puppy".
Everyone thinks it is hilarious.
Even my mother.
Who was not part of the conspiracy and should have been on my side.
They are all getting a bag of coal in their stockings. Ok, it is actually rock candy. But it looks like coal.
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