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Elementary school evacuated after student brought “historic unexploded ordinance” for show and tell
Not The Bee ^
| November 26, 2024
| Staff
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.
TOPICS: Education; History; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beansontoast; education; england
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To: ArGee; All
Good Morning Day before Thanksgiving!
Nice and chilly and sunny... great Fall weather...
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posted on
11/26/2025 6:14:47 AM PST
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zzeeman
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To: zzeeman
We’re having unseasonably warm weather. It rained a lot yesterday so that probably brought in a warm front.
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11/26/2025 6:48:16 AM PST
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ArGee
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To: ArGee
I guess we are all waiting for the next big rush of cold air... it is supposed to impact us from Sunday through Tuesday....
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11/26/2025 6:55:12 AM PST
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zzeeman
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To: ArGee
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The electrician got off work early. He'll be here in a few so I'll be knocking off early.
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11/26/2025 11:53:18 AM PST
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ArGee
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Happy Thanksgiving ya’all...
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Happy Thanksgiving …. May God be with each of Us.
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11/27/2025 2:35:26 AM PST
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May this Thanksgiving be the best that ever was for You and Yours!!!
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Good Morning All!
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