Elementary school evacuated after student brought “historic unexploded ordinance” for show and tell

Not The Bee ^ | November 26, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

You can use this one......................

[Red Badger]

Someone found the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch............

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Occasionally found in back yards all across Europe and Asia.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Ordinance” = ordnance

[xp38]

I can’t remember how many fire drills we had in my school years. Not the same obviously but the logistics would be.

[Red Badger]

We had them at least twice a year...................

[FlipWilson]

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?

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

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.

[Red Badger]

The Stupidity Gods were kind to you that day................

[Revel]

So authorities are keeping it a secret as to what it was. I have no respect for them at all.

[rlmorel]

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!

[Buttons12]

Blow it up and lose the i!

[fella]

Black Cat lady-finger?

[fella]

They should learn to speak English.

[TalBlack]

“Stiff upper lip, chaps, it’s just a bomb.

[Buttons12]

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.

[lurk]

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.

[tired&retired]

Probably some 22 shorts.

The wacko teachers over reacted.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Back when DH was a wee lad his dad was stationed in Germany and the Army Brats used to play in the wooded area near the base. One day they found a bunker that had been abandon for about 13 years with a bunch of cool stuff

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.