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]

That’s a nice thing to do for your children.

When we were in the Wildlands for about 9 months between NYC and here Mrs. ArGee had carloads of stuff for me to take to the Salvation Army every weekend. Now she’s accepted stuff from the estate and she’s upset that it’s accumulating again.

I told her that if it were up to me, we would go back to the Wildlands in our cars. I’d sell or give away everything we have here. But that didn’t get a good reaction.

[bert]

-——accumulating again-——

Several years ago we strongly considered moving to a smalle residence. We did in fact begin to downsize and got rid of lots and lots of stuff.

We did not move. Now several years later, it seems that every square foot is occupied with newly accumulated stuff.

Some how, it just happens

[ArGee]

George Carlin said a house is just a pile of stuff with a roof on it.

[Dead Corpse]

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[ArGee]

[null and void]

Dazn’t come in. I iz dangerus.

Note the skull candle holder...

[ArGee]

Probably Darks’ fault.

[null and void]

Good point!

[ArGee]

Got any 8’s?

[null and void]

3½

[zzeeman]

It certainly sounds like a lot of driving!

[zzeeman]

1/2 of the Lone Ranger?

[Tax-chick]

I’m sure re-accumulation will happen here, if there’s not a significant event that changes everything.

[Tax-chick]

Cats love skulls. Bite dey little heads off ...

[null and void]

and nibbles on dey toes

[Tax-chick]

Carnivorous Predator 101.

[ArGee]

Nibble on they little feet.

[Tax-chick]

[Tax-chick]

[moose07]

Just checking in to say Howdy-do !
Trust all okay in your world. :)