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Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
Quote:
A primary school in Essex was evacuated after a pupil brought an artillery shell to a class show-and-tell.

Police were called to St Margaret's Church of England School in Bowers Gifford, near Basildon, on Wednesday and found the shell had been taken to a sports field.

The field was immediately cordoned off and an Army bomb disposal team was called in, a police spokesperson said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-22796292
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
The youngest addition to the no fly list! :)


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Author:  PaulKey [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
I had to smile when I saw this. It reminded me of my late dad, some 45 to 50 years ago, who used what was probably a 4 inch shell to break bottles/jars that he'd put in the dustbin. You used to bin glass bottles back then... recycling hadn't been invented yet. It was an intact but not live shell. Anyway.... somehow word of this shell reached the local police and a copper duly arrived to take said shell down to the station for it to be inspected !!!!! I don't remember seeing it again.

I did however wonder whether this news item was a wind up when I read "Upon learning that a bomb shell had been brought into school we took the precaution of calling police community support officers and then followed their expert advice." Actually I laughed :lol:
Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:21 pm ]
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Any relation to Bratty?
Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
PaulKey wrote:
I had to smile when I saw this. It reminded me of my late dad, some 45 to 50 years ago, who used what was probably a 4 inch shell to break bottles/jars that he'd put in the dustbin. You used to bin glass bottles back then... recycling hadn't been invented yet. It was an intact but not live shell. Anyway.... somehow word of this shell reached the local police and a copper duly arrived to take said shell down to the station for it to be inspected !!!!! I don't remember seeing it again.

I did however wonder whether this news item was a wind up when I read "Upon learning that a bomb shell had been brought into school we took the precaution of calling police community support officers and then followed their expert advice." Actually I laughed :lol:


That reminds me of stories my dad used to tell me about his childhood in the Midlands after the war, where he'd play in bomb craters, and they'd find unexploded shells and play with them.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
We had a (hoax) bomb scare at our school once.
I found it strange that they made the pupils search their own classrooms for 'suspicious packages'.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
A friend's father ruined a CDT lab with a 'borrowed' demonstration grenade, and some 'borrowed' elements from the chemistry lab.
Author:  big_D [ Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
l3v1ck wrote:
We had a (hoax) bomb scare at our school once.
I found it strange that they made the pupils search their own classrooms for 'suspicious packages'.

Same here, although it was supposed to be planted in a stairwell, so the whole school was evacuated.

And my father and a mate made some Nitro in class and didn't know what to do with it, so they buried it, allegedly, after a cricket ball bounded on it, the cricket square was never the same again. :lol:
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
I am from the Somme and funnily enough, these kind of events are still fairly common as there's still over 200k shells not accounted for. Farmers still find them when the plow and just leave them on the side of fields.

I remember when I was about 10, the army banned us from going home because they'd found a large unexploded device in the area and had cleared a good 3 kilometre perimetre around it.
It was height of summer and we had to ask people to put the food we'd just bought in their fridges so it wouldn't go off.

the main issue is most of them are dud, expect the few that aren't and then people lose limbs.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bomb squad called to Bowers Gifford school
TheFrenchun wrote:
I am from the Somme and funnily enough, these kind of events are still fairly common as there's still over 200k shells not accounted for. Farmers still find them when the plow and just leave them on the side of fields.

And Bratty now has his next holiday planned. :shock:
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