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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: Tax-chick; ArGee; Dead Corpse; HKMk23; All

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8,881 posted on 08/18/2026 5:23:02 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; null and void; no-to-illegals; Silentgypsy; ColdOne; Covenantor; ...

Good morning. Happy Twosday!

The screen repair shop that told me it was going to be 2 weeks got the screens done already. So now I need to figure out when to get them back in the windows. As the late ‘Face used to say, if it’s not one darn thing it’s two darn things.

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8,882 posted on 08/18/2026 6:00:02 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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I gotta stop spending all day in remote meetings!


8,883 posted on 08/18/2026 7:23:42 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: ArGee

New (to me) Honda acquired. I bit of driving around to get it, but it has been added to the stable.

Going to need a bigger garage at this rate.

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8,884 posted on 08/18/2026 7:38:21 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse
Going to need a bigger garage at this rate.

The operative word being need. You need that garage.

8,885 posted on 08/18/2026 11:34:59 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: Dead Corpse

Congratulations!


8,886 posted on 08/18/2026 2:26:38 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Stop me before I volunteer again!)
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To: zzeeman; ArGee; Dead Corpse

Busy day with my granddaughter. I’m taking care of her Monday and Wednesday afternoons, Tuesday and Thursday mornings, so Sally can go back to school full time.

Hopefully everyone’s class schedules will settle down soon. James and Frank have both had classes that changed from full term to half term, or first half term to second. Not a big deal for them, but if you’d built your work schedule around the originally published schedule, it would be a nuisance.

The email from James’s instructor said they apologized for any incontinence this would cause the students.


8,887 posted on 08/18/2026 2:29:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Stop me before I volunteer again!)
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8,888 posted on 08/18/2026 2:33:53 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: bankwalker

Nailed it!


8,889 posted on 08/18/2026 2:38:02 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: ArGee

That could be brutal!


8,890 posted on 08/18/2026 4:00:48 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: Dead Corpse

👍🏻

Hopefully she will be good to you!


8,891 posted on 08/18/2026 4:01:39 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: Tax-chick
Sounds like a great chance to spend time with the little one!

The email from James’s instructor said they apologized for any incontinence this would cause the students.

😂

8,892 posted on 08/18/2026 4:03:19 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: Tax-chick

May Your student Children excel beyond excellence and achieve plus 4.0 Side note regarding 4.0.


8,893 posted on 08/19/2026 2:06:52 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: zzeeman

Thank You !!!


8,894 posted on 08/19/2026 2:08:11 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals; ArGee; Dead Corpse; HKMk23; Tax-chick; All

Good Midweek Morning!

You are very welcome!

Happy to get all the shopping done yesterday without melting into the pavement... it was certainly a warm one out there...

Another Doh! day here...

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8,895 posted on 08/19/2026 5:24:47 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: zzeeman

I know. James said his bowels were fine, thanks.


8,896 posted on 08/19/2026 5:39:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Stop me before I volunteer again!)
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8,897 posted on 08/19/2026 5:41:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Stop me before I volunteer again!)
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To: Tax-chick

“We apologize for any inconvenience” rarely cuts it. But what can you do?


8,898 posted on 08/19/2026 5:42:47 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: Tax-chick

That’s never a discussion you want to be having.


8,899 posted on 08/19/2026 5:44:03 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; null and void; no-to-illegals; Silentgypsy; ColdOne; Covenantor; ...

Good morning. Happy Humph Day.

Dazn’t touch da mousie!

The day started nice and cool this morning. Mrs. ArGee tries to walk The Princess around 9 so they can get in a good walk without the heat becoming unbearable. It hasn’t been too good a walk lately. Maybe today they can go a little farther.

There weren’t too many choices left after all those useless letters.

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8,900 posted on 08/19/2026 5:46:37 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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