Huge blast as WW2 bomb detonated in Germany

[Benny B]

Explosives experts in Germany detonated the remains of a 550-pound (250 kilogrammes) World War II bomb in central Munich on Tuesday evening.

Burning debris caused fires in several nearby buildings that had been evacuated after the bomb was discovered on Monday in the Schwabing district. More than 3-thousand residents were evacuated.

Tens of thousands of unexploded bombs are believed still to be lying in the ground across Germany.

[snx]

That is pretty crazy. Could you imagine? You live on, quite literally, a minefield and have for years. This entire giant successful city is there too. And one day your number comes up and a 500lb 70 year old bomb goes off? Kind of boggles the mind.

[MikMaq]

Seems like a cool plot for a movie.

[Tito24]

stark

[Stark]

Alright so...

1) Yes we still have a lot of unexposed ordinance in the ground and we find every year bombs and ammo, but there are very very very few accidents that happen, most of them when construction workers are not careful and simply carry the explosive ordinance away.
Last year we had three die by an explosion.

Now in regards to this bomb, it was one of these nice once that you yanks left us for a little fuck you, its actually really hard to disarm them because their firing mechanism is based on chemicals, and is designed to explode hours after it has dropped and the raid is over to spread further fear and terror and to hinder rescue attempts.

thats the reason they had to detonate rather disarm.

[JOHN MATRIX]

I bet the jews are already claiming 6 thousand jewish casualties from the bomb

[Stark]

I bet the jews are already claiming 6 thousand jewish casualties from the bomb

Well at the beginning before the gassing they were experimenting with high explosives on group of humans (they used crazy people to test it) to see if it would be a good way of exterminating a large amount of people, course it worked but the aftermath wasn't very efficient.

[R.A.M.]

His wife is hot too!!!


http://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-gilmour-bomb/




Nothing will liven up an otherwise routine home renovation like finding a bomb under the house. That’s what Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour recently learned the hard way when he and his wife were forced to leave their mansion after workers discovered a World War II explosive device underneath the building.


Classic Rock Magazine reports that late last week, a construction crew working on Gilmour’s six-story pad in England’s East Sussex ran across the WWII-era bomb. Gilmour and wife Polly Samson made tracks while a Royal Navy bomb disposal team removed the pipe-shaped, 5-foot-long device, and no one was hurt.

Pretty bizarre since two of Floyd’s songs, ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’ and ‘Mother,’ both mention bombs in their lyrics, no?

Gilmour stayed publicly silent during the ordeal, but Samson posted a series of tweets and photos. We’re glad this incident ended with a whimper rather than a bang.

[Dr Dutch]

Where I worked some years back, kids were tossing and kicking what they thought was some old piece of iron. Turned out to be a grenade from the war.
Explosives team search for a day or two, but couldn't find any more of them.
The grenade turned out to be quite dangerous and could have blown easily.

[sync pulse]

In addition to WWII...People still find unexploded ordnance from WWI!

[mass243]

In addition to WWII...People still find unexploded ordnance from WWI!

And what's real crazy..... Sometimes they even find spearheads from Stone Age era 

[Dr Dutch]

And what's real crazy..... Sometimes they even find spearheads from Stone Age era 

you beat me to it..

[Stark]

On Berlin the EOD TEAM was called over 1 thousand times in one year