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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: Dead Corpse; Monkey Face

Until we meet again.


2,261 posted on 03/18/2025 3:11:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: heavy metal

You seem lost on the concept of “Undead Thread”.
I know it was described when we welcomed you in.


2,262 posted on 03/18/2025 3:16:13 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

undead thread should have it’s own titled thread instead of hijacking a previously titled thread...

it’s misleading to lead people into reading about your personal lives...


2,263 posted on 03/18/2025 3:27:34 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Oh no.


2,264 posted on 03/18/2025 3:28:15 PM PDT by null and void (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity. H/T MortMan)
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To: heavy metal

The undead thread is a metathread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1163131/posts
It started there and has continued since.


2,265 posted on 03/18/2025 3:30:48 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

ok... why do you people hijack threads when that one is constantly rolling?...


2,266 posted on 03/18/2025 3:37:17 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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To: heavy metal

The thread is donated for use with OP’s permission.


2,267 posted on 03/18/2025 3:40:54 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

Some people simply seek attention. Let the poster shout into the wind.


2,268 posted on 03/18/2025 3:42:31 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

True.


2,269 posted on 03/18/2025 3:43:10 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: heavy metal


i understand that...”

Then your “point” is invalid.
Thanks for playing.


2,271 posted on 03/18/2025 3:58:40 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Darksheare

kamala harris had the same attitude as you...


2,272 posted on 03/18/2025 4:00:43 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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To: Dead Corpse

I got a text from her daughter just a few minutes ago. I mean, shoot. But it seemed for the last six weeks or so that things were going that way.


2,273 posted on 03/18/2025 4:09:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: heavy metal; Jim Robinson

No one on this thread cares what you think. Argue elsewhere.


2,274 posted on 03/18/2025 4:14:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

ok... why should the world care about your personal lives?...


2,275 posted on 03/18/2025 4:25:09 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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To: heavy metal

You keep saying that yet you already have the answer.
Quit whining, it’s unbecoming.


2,276 posted on 03/18/2025 4:28:37 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: DJ MacWoW

I think it’s best if we all cease replying to the person.


2,277 posted on 03/18/2025 4:28:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Tax-chick

Yup.
Moar cat pics.


2,278 posted on 03/18/2025 4:30:12 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: heavy metal

I hope you’re not going to be a problem child.


2,279 posted on 03/18/2025 4:30:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Monkey Face
Fair winds and following seas my FRiend.

Until we meet again.

2,280 posted on 03/18/2025 4:30:37 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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