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.
“So authorities are keeping it a secret as to what it was. “
To save the teachers embarrassment.
Send the kid to school with silly putty and tell the class it’s C-4.
One British source called it a ‘bomb’................
It was just a real Interactive Toy.🤪
A friend I went to college with taught second grade. One of his students brought a brown lunch bag to show and tell.
She was in front of the class when she pulled out a glittery sequin covered pasties and g-string. It was her mother’s work clothes! He pretended it was nothing and shuffled her back to her seat.
Her mother was a stripper.
I am sure that did not stop you from playing with Cherry bombs and M80s in your teen years.
I remember at school in 1956 a student brought an old military pistol to school for show and tell. One from the 1830s.
Today the school would go into lockdown, police called parents in a panic and news media screaming for more gun control!
Not to quibble too much, but isn't it fairly easy to tell whether something has exploded or not?
Bet he uses a crock pot to hide the next one.
M80s were the best. Made cherry bombs seem mild.
Blew many a red ant hill into a crater with them.
Yes...................😁
ordinance
1.
NORTH AMERICAN
a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority.
“a city ordinance banned smoking in nearly all types of restaurants”
2.
an authoritative order; a decree.
Did he tuck a $1 into the string before putting it back in the bag?
Thanks! I’ll run it past the Undeaders!
Yes. I wrote “ordinances” for a city’ I know what an ordinance is.
The title should’ve been “ordnance”, which is: “military supplies including weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment.”
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Shucks, now you both know.
LOL... Wonder if he kept a straight face during the next parent teacher conference?
That’s the norm now, but I can remember seeing multiple examples of ordinance in the past, especially during WWII.....
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