All sorts of dangerous WW2 relics are back in action, it seems.
Blast from the past. The estimated tonnage of unexploded bombs from WWII is staggering. They will be showing up for centuries. Some can be defused and removed while others have to be detonated in place. And some of them have been built over and are just there waiting for the cocked detonators to ping. Post WWII military ventures have left even more tons of exceedingly wicked inventory in SE Asia, Korea, and the Middle East.
How long will our country be digging out from Donnie’s unexploded ordinance, I mean Executive Orders…
Well, how exciting for everyone, and the police and navy, too! It’s just like an episode of MI5 where everyone get real serious looks on their faces and talk in an urgent monotone.
I wonder how the wh will manage to blame this on radical islamic terrorists.
Well, Hamburg is in Germany. The September 11 cells did live in Hamburg for a while. There you go!
As far as unexploded ordnance goes, check the Wikipedia article on the “iron harvest” in France. 100 years and they’re still at risk.
When I was a kid, we used to visit germany, and all through the woods near where we visited were signs warning of unexploded mines/shells. I think they finally cleared the area, or maybe just took down the signs.
This happens in Sicily periodically, too.
Has there ever been an instance where one that’s been built over went off?
Decades ago, my late uncle, a ship’s officer in WW2, told me about coming on to a crowd in a London street. He asked a bobby what was going on. “UXB” he was told. Shortly thereafter, there was applause. it had been successfully defused.
A Royal Marine officer emerged from the building, jumped into a car and was driven away. My uncle recalled that the man’s complexion looked nearly green from the hours of no sleep and stress. Those “sappers” had a life span on average of about 6 weeks. Some were women.
There is a mine shaft filled with explosives that was supposed to be detonated under German trenches in a Great War battle that still hasn’t gone off. I think France has just cordoned off the area as off limits; I know they have to places around Verdun.