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

Not The Bee ^ | November 26, 2024 | Staff

[MayflowerMadam]

You mean you’ve seen ordnance, not ordinance ...?

[Gaffer]

Ordnance is the correct term when it is in reference to armaments/munitions, etc. Ordinance is akin to a local law against littering or something. But I have seen Ordinance used incorrectly once or twice wrt munitions during WWII and writings in some manuals....

[Manic_Episode]

Unexploded British Ordnance

[MayflowerMadam]

It’s misused most of the time, actually.

[mewzilla]

From a few days after the initial incident and the you-can't-make-this-bleep-up file...

Orchard Junior School closed today due to gas leak

[Monkey Face]

OK, Undeaders!

Welcome to the new Home of the Undead Thread!

Cookies and hot cocoa on the mezzanine, or the drinks of your choice in the bar, as usual.

Find your new cubby, and make yourselves at home!

[mewzilla]

Some ordnance for the cocoa!

https://iambaker.net/hot-chocolate-bombs/

[mware]

Danger UXB....great series. Those butterfly bombs were wicked.

[Monkey Face]

Thank you! Just what I needed!

It’s been forever since I had any of these! 💖

[Monkey Face]

Before we get much farther into posting, we all need to give Red Badger a vote of thanks for loaning us this thread to fold, spindle, tear, crumple and mutilate to our heart’s content!

Thanks, Red Badger!

[mewzilla]

You’re welcome!

And for anyone who wants a walk on the slightly alcoholic wild side...

Screwball Eggnog!

[mewzilla]

Thanks, RB!

https://youtu.be/0UhZidTv3Fk?feature=shared

Badgers rule!

[deport]

Thanks. At my age things don’t always come together as they
should. But life goes on, take care.

[Silentgypsy]

Busted!

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you, RB, for this and for all of your other illuminating posts!

[null and void]

At my age I don’t even have all the parts to come together...

[null and void]

Cookies and hot cocoa on the mezzanine, or the drinks of your choice in the bar, as usual.

Orange juice and vodka is a screwdriver.
Milk of magnesia and vodka is a Phillips screwdriver.
Prune juice and vodka is a pile driver...

[Silentgypsy]

Priceless, as usual.

[Darksheare]

My old artillery unit was setting up at Fort Drum here in NY one fine annual training, were positioned in the decommissioned m203 range off Alexandria road.
We were “completely assured that there is NO UXO in THIS LOCATION”.
So heading back to the gunline from having field hots at chow I hear the distinct “Tiiink” sound of a live 203 grenade bouncing off the tie of my boot.
I’m told I stood in place face contorted in rage while the vertical hold control failed.
I looked down, considered my options, then picked it up.
“Got sumptin for the Capt here, sar’nt” I said as I gently palmed it into the hand of my Gunny.
He near crapped himself once he opened his fingers yo see what I’d slipped him.
Then he looked at the captain.

“Present for you, sir” he says as ge drops it into the captains open hand from about a foot or more above.
The captain didn’t drop it, but he contorted like he was trying to run away from his hand.
We stopped operation for awhile, doing artillery live fire from there was scrubbed, and we were talked to about UXO and not picking it up.
I piped up about “how about not setting us up on top of it to begin with.”
A bunch of others chimed in about how absolutely disturbed the ground will be when we fire.
We weee repositioned not too long after.

Found an 88mm mortar round while digging the powder pit...

[deport]

LOL.... Well I have all the parts but not necessarily
working as they did in the past.