Anyone else see this ? Crazy after this long it goes off
WW2 bomb goes off in German corn field
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Anyone else see this ? Crazy after this long it goes off
I bet the farmer's butt puckers driving down those paths for quite a while.
That's what the Germans get for bombing Pearl Harbor! 
Aren't there a ton of unexploded bombs in France and Western Germany?
I think I’d hire it custom farmed from now on
Pretty sure Vietnam too and I think just in general heavily war-torn countries have all sorts of stuff all over.
Fascinating but grim.
Pretty sure that is what happens whenever you mix a few of those purple pickled eggs with a couple of Bitburger Pils.
That is not even counting the artillery shells from Dubya Dubya One and Two.
Plus there is this whole thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151027-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-the-thames
The ship lies just 1.5 miles (2.4km) from shore in the mouth of the bustling Thames estuary. Clearly visible from the land – its rusting masts rising ominously from the water – the sunken vessel contains disturbing cargo: 1,400 tonnes of high explosives which many fear could go off at any time, potentially causing one of the most devastating non-nuclear peace-time explosions ever seen [...] However, estimates paint a worrying picture. According to a survey carried out in 2000 by the UK government’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), the ship likely contains a staggering assortment of more than 9,000 US-made explosives. These include 286 giant 2,000lb ‘blockbuster’ bombs, 4,439 1,000lb devices and – perhaps most worryingly of all – more than 2,500 cluster bombs. Unlike most of the other items on board, cluster bombs would have been transported with their fuses in place, leaving them more prone to detonation.
Read that before. Good article. They also had one in the magazine like 20 years ago. That one was mostly about clearing fields in France that are still littered with artillery shells from WWI. Literally pile them like we pile boulders in Iowa. Some are gas shells.
Cambodia too. Watched an Expedition Unknown and there were guys out there in the jungle minefields disabling them one by one.
Here is a ground level picture for scale.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a28170164/crater-germany-world-war-ii/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a28170164/crater-germany-world-war-ii/
Sorry to say, US has its own hidden/lost bombs.
https://www.history.com/news/attack-of-japans-killer-wwii-balloons-70-years-ago
https://www.history.com/news/attack-of-japans-killer-wwii-balloons-70-years-ago
