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2011-12-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Unexploded bomb found in Germany from WW2

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Posted by Jan 2011-12-01 08:56|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Not news...

Posted by gromky 2011-12-01 09:53|| 2011-12-01 09:53|| Front Page Top

#2 ..except we're now dealing with a generation that doesn't even know about WWII - for example the pejorative they hurl at others actually stands for National Socialist Workers Party.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-12-01 10:34|| 2011-12-01 10:34|| Front Page Top

#3 That sounds like a "cookie" to me and you don't want to mess around with one of them. A Lancaster would drop one of them and a bunch of smaller bombs in one raid. Four thousand pounds of unstable explosives and the fusing bits and pieces underneath it and stuck in the mud. No thanks.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2011-12-01 11:58|| 2011-12-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I've played with 1000 pound schtuff, mines that were 20+ years old, and mines exposed for 3-5 years.

4000 pounds of 60+ year-old ordnance, with a detonator exposed to mud and water... no thank you.

Not news...

Meh.

Posted by Pappy 2011-12-01 12:51|| 2011-12-01 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Not news...

If it goes off, it will be...

Posted by tu3031 2011-12-01 22:12|| 2011-12-01 22:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Not long after I move back from Germany, I read that a (fairly new) parking garage somewhere north of Frankfurt (don't remember which city now, but it was a fairly large one) just exploded/imploded one day. They finally concluded it was from an old WWII bomb that had somehow survived all the construction. Ouch.

Posted by Barbara 2011-12-01 23:09|| 2011-12-01 23:09|| Front Page Top

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