WWII river bomb successfully detonated in Germany
A 550lb (250kg) bomb from World War II has been successfully detonated during a controlled explosion in a river in Potsdam, Germany. Nine tonnes of straw had to be placed on top of the bomb, to contain the blast and shrapnel.
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Blast from the Past!
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByXciter (390.36) 
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lol, good one!
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByBellykose (137.98) 
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for sure, the eod guys have still have plenty of work for decades to come. same as in indochina and northern africa...
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bythetis (131.44) thetis View Channel Send Message
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There are still several vast ammonal mines lost beneath the Somme battlefields from 1918.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byshashi2005 (1165.02) shashi2005 View Channel Send Message
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Yeah. Martin Middlemass's excellent book on the Somme says it killed a cow in the fifties.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byshashi2005 (1165.02) shashi2005 View Channel Send Message
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There doesn't go a week by without some bomb being defused. Fortunately, our guys have the knowledge and the experience to handle this stuff.
It's a pita to check old bomber photos and look for them, sometimes buildings have been placed on them, rarely they are in the open like this one.
The world is full with ordnance, most countries can't afford the techniques and manpower it requires to deal with that.
BTW, I cannot even imagine what it must have been like when those rather small b More..
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byblacklama (363.36) 
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looks like me when I find the perfect porn video
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByInfiniteSense76 (49.62) 
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LOL.
Posted Oct-21-2010 ByTheHorror (301.78) 
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It's pretty cool it still works after so long. They don't make batteries like they used to!
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByWuffles (104.08) 
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Doh !!!
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bywoodenz (57.46) woodenz View Channel Send Message
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you DO know they are in the ground because they didn't work? and that's 20% of those who were dropped. additionally when the war was almost over the pilots flew too low so the detonator didn't activate ..
Posted Oct-16-2010 Bycoldarchon (443.36) coldarchon View Channel Send Message
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I think they only placed new explosives to break the explosive train. If a 550lb detonated it would of been a larger blast than that.
Posted Oct-16-2010 BySte_0 (179.48) 
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A job well done, good idea packing that straw..
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bysmeblee (11027.00) 
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They should have packed it with about 40 tons of liberals, now that would have been cool!!
Posted Oct-17-2010 Bygrunt11b (43.56) 
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holy crap! imagine the fish landing in the neighborhood.
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByAmusing (5222.98) Amusing View Channel Send Message
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That's how Bible stories are made.
Posted Oct-25-2010 ByAround420 (27.26) 
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There are round about 1000 bomb discoveries a year only in one of our 16 states (NRW). You wann make some money come and be a digger operator.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byunschlagbar (165.10) 
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No thank you.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bymigs1955 (914.04) 
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That is pretty crazy. Anyone ever get hurt?
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bysphart1 (184.26) sphart1 View Channel Send Message
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Yes. Just recently (June, 2010) 3 bomb disposal experts were killed by a 2,000 lb aerial mine. 2 people were seriously injured and 4 with slight injuries.
It is assumed that more then 100,000 Aerial Bombs from WW2 are still in the ground in germany. In my Hometown Hamburg 3000-5000 alone (Hamburg was completely destroyed in air raids during WW2. My grandma told me many stories about it)
The problem is, that these unexploded bombs get more and more dangerous over time.
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByZeitgeist28 (133.04) 
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There are chemicals fuses, that decay over time. It's a piece of cellulose, which is corroded by an acid in a glass vile, which in turn is mechanically smashed.
This mechanism is supposed to detonate the bomb after it has landed, but sometimes it simply fails. Then it's just a matter of time.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byblacklama (363.36) 
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Premature Burial???
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByOipunx310 (20.14) Oipunx310 View Channel Send Message
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Poor duck on the left running like hell.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byradopunk (50.06) 
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You beat me to it. Check out the duck at 00:18.
Posted Oct-15-2010 By-sloop- (2881.12) 
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Yep. He went quackers
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByTravis1978 (259.62) Travis1978 Send Message
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that duck was fuckin fast on its flippers ? feet> that was a massive bang, seemed bigger than some of the modern day shit we see in iraq/ass-stan, there are many many more to be found in germany cos lets be honest here, for ever 1 you droped on us we droped 10 on you, the allies killed more inocent people than the 3rd rich could have dreamed of, but history is written by the winners lol,
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byyoupube (155.50) 
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We (the allies) killed over six and a half million people?
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bypchart7 (293.02) 
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I love the duck. He's thinking "FUUUUCCCCK what was that - I'm outta here!"
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byjca111 (22.00) 
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That was really cool, especially on this TV. Imagine having hundreds of those falling all over your city at night. Fucking hell on earth.
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByApeviated (62.04) Apeviated Send Message
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They are still finding bombs and mines from WWI - over 90 years ago. They still explode, but not very well - usually :-)
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByDEADBEEF (4164.86) 
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well,.I guess they can officially write that one off as a miss,...lol
Posted Oct-15-2010 BySharkGuy (1505.20) SharkGuy View Channel Send Message
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That blast would be tiny compared to the blast that would be caused if the 1,400 tonnes of TNT in the munutions on the USS Richard Montgomery, lying at the bottom of the Thames near Sheerness, ever went up.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byfr33thinker (900.80) fr33thinker View Channel Send Message
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War is stupid.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bytruebrit49 (271.72) 
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As soon as you find a way for world peace, let me know. Humans are incapable of living together in peace.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bysphart1 (184.26) sphart1 View Channel Send Message
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but without it you would no doubt be a slave to someone right now.
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bymattb1974 (1072.58) 
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We need to discover evil, warmongering aliens, maybe then we would work together as a species. lol
Posted Oct-15-2010 Byblacklama (363.36) 
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Just wait, First it was Communism, then terrorism, next it`ll be a threat of a meteor strike, THEN it`ll be aliens. All needed to keep the cash streaming into the military and keep the whole complex running, the scariest thing is weaponizing space, the whole game will change.
Posted Oct-15-2010 ByBlackwolfhunting (670.22) 
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Was that one of the bombs from the DAM BUSTERS?
Posted Oct-15-2010 Bystrideninja (259.78) 
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