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.
You can use this one......................
Someone found the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch............
“Ordinance” = ordnance
I can’t remember how many fire drills we had in my school years. Not the same obviously but the logistics would be.
We had them at least twice a year...................
I am guilty of having done something like this as a child. Grew up on a base. We would play in the wood behind the housing area. Turns out, once upon a time those woods would receive over shoots form the old artillery range.
We found a large shell and threw it around in the wood for weeks. Finally, I decided to bring it to the housing area to show my Dad who was an artillery man. Never will forget the expression on his face when he realized what we were tossing around. Amongst other expletives I recall the words “dumb” and “arse” being tossed in my direction.
Turns out that “dud” we had been playing with was live. Who knew?
Growing up in the 40’s I can recall going to visit families where there would be an unexploded grenade, lying perhaps on the mantle for display. Us kids would pick it up and handle it. No one seemed concerned the thing might blow up.
The Stupidity Gods were kind to you that day................
So authorities are keeping it a secret as to what it was. I have no respect for them at all.
How times have changed...when my buddy was discharged from the Navy in 1979, he flew home with a practice bomb and a .22 rifle in his checked luggage!
Blow it up and lose the i!
Black Cat lady-finger?
They should learn to speak English.
“Stiff upper lip, chaps, it’s just a bomb.
My dad said when he was a kid (1960’s) they used to go to NJ to dig for large military objects in an old arsenal site. Like digging for arrowheads I guess, only badder.
Not sure where exactly.
The ignorance runs deep.
Any device that a child can carry in a backpack would have a lethal radius of maybe 20 meters. Which means the classroom walls would stop the energy.
They could have just emptied the rooms on each side of the room, scooted the piece out in a small reinforced box, and resumed the school day. But no, they have to shut down the whole school for the day.
Homeschooling is the answer.
Probably some 22 shorts.
The wacko teachers over reacted.
Someone took a few souvenirs home and that evening their dads were called to an emergency meeting. When they came back they told the kids that the woods were OFF LIMITS until they were told otherwise.
Apparently it took about week to make sure they had cleared the area.
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