[Newsbot]

Title: German city to evacuate 45,000 for bomb disposal
Category: World
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2011-12-03 20:24:33

[martin14]

War, the gift that keeps on giving.

They are still pulling stuff from the fields of WW1.

Be happy you get to miss all this.

[ShepherdsDog]

That UXO is nasty. You never know how its going to react. The shit we were pulling off the beaches in Kinmen , some of it had been there from just after WWII. We'll never be 100% certain thatwe got each and every mine, as there were no real maps and different ones were at different depths. The ones for vehicles were quite deep.

[Bruce_E_T]

I just hope that everyone has a home to come home to.

Must be a very anxious experience all round.

[martin14]

Bruce_E_T Bruce_E_T:

I just hope that everyone has a home to come home to.

Must be a very anxious experience all round.

They have a lot of experience with this.


I'm sure it'll be fine.

[martin14]

update.. it's been defused

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16018659

[Bruce_E_T]

Good. More to come it seems.

$1:

The BBC's Stephen Evans, in Berlin, says more bombs are expected to be discovered because of the low water levels in the Rhine.

About 600 tonnes of unexploded ordnance are discovered in Germany every year, our correspondent says.

[Batsy]

It's quite a common occurrence in Britain to take your dog for walkies and, whilst doing so, see your dog emerge from undergrowth with a WWII hand grenade in its mouth.

It's also quite common for people to be digging in their garden and accidentally uncover an unexploded bomb dropped by a Luftwaffe plane, leading to the authorities evacuating all the residents in the street and anybody else living in a half-mile radius. For all I know, there could be an unexploded German bomb just feet away from where I am now.

It wasn't until the 1970s that all of Britain's beaches were declared safe from mines. Up until then many civilians were killed just for going to the beach. One Dorset beach was declared safe and open to the public, but it proved fatal to five schoolboys who played with a mine that they found.

And research has shown that the UK - and many other European countries - are still absolutely littered with unexploded and, therefore, life-threatening WWII ordnance.

So, 66 years after it has ended, WWII still had the potential to kill and maim people.