Bombs. Children.

These are two things that should never, ever be associated with each other. Not that bombs should be associated with any particular group per se, but like, there is ISIS, right? They strap bombs to themselves for chrissakes, so if hypothetically … oh, we don’t know? The Central Intelligence Agency left a bomb and/or bomb material on a bus or transport vehicle the Islamic State was using somewhere in Iraq or Syria, accidentally (or on purpose) no one would bat an eye, right? Because if that bomb stuff suddenly goes off and causes harm to a terrorist, that’s just fine and dandy.

The problem is, however, in this instance, the CIA left bomb material on a school bus that transported young Virginia school students — CHILDREN — and whoa boy is that a dumb and potentially dangerous mistake.

But it happened.

This from WTOP:

During the federal training exercise of the sheriff’s office K-9 units at Briar Woods High School, the CIA “inadvertently” left behind what’s being called a container of an explosive material, the agency says.

“After the exercise was over, one piece slipped out of the container and into the engine casing and that’s where we found it this week,” says Loudoun County Schools spokesman Wayde Byard of the substance discovered Wednesday during routine maintenance.

Byard says the unnamed substance was harmless without a specialized blasting cap to activate it.

“So its not something that if you picked it up off the street you could blow up,” he says.

The bus made a total of eight trips on March 28 and 29, carrying children to and from school with the substance on board, the CIA confirms in a release.

The agency says it coordinated closely with local authorities and recovered the training material Wednesday, March 30.

As you may have guessed, the exercise between the parties involved (the CIA, the Loudon County Sheriff’s office and local fire marshals) has been suspended so that a review may be done before it’s ever put in place again (if it ever is).

Emails were also sent out from the school system to the parents of the children who rode the “special needs” bus with the material on board.

Yikes.