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

Not The Bee ^ | November 26, 2024 | Staff

[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.

[ArGee]

I have to get out of this “slow and steady wins the race” mode.

[ArGee]

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[zzeeman]

Thunder rumble w00t!

[zzeeman]

Actually, I think that it is a good mode for golf... I’m just happy to be getting some good games in before I start the Bogeys and Double Bogeys...

[Dead Corpse]

Anyone remember when Alt-2600 was a big deal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly

The current 2600.com website is a pale shadow of what it once was.

[ArGee]

I can remember when Compaq sold a 386 desktop with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB drive for over $26K.

But I was never really into the Altair machines.

[Tax-chick]

-00!

Hope you have a good weekend!

[ArGee]

You, too, TC.

It’s almost April.

I’m still trying to decide if that’s a good thing.

[NicknamedBob]

April has sweet showers, or so I’ve read.

[Dead Corpse]

My oldest Daughter had a friend named April back in their school days. I think she’s married now...

Er... April... not my Daughter.

[Silentgypsy]

What a cutie!

[Tax-chick]

[zzeeman]

Gosh, that seems like a lifetime ago!

[null and void]

Cat spotted on chair

[HKMk23]

And I suppose that “C” is for “Cat,” but I’m trusting that the owners have done something more creative with it than that.

[Tax-chick]

Excellent efforts.

[Tax-chick]

[zzeeman]

Good Morning!

Creamsicle...

[Tax-chick]

Found on the street in Turkey, according to the source.

[zzeeman]

The house to the right has the same colors….