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Strong winter storms have unearthed WW2 era unexploded bombs along UK beaches..
Posted on 2/26/14 at 10:55 am
Posted on 2/26/14 at 10:55 am
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The storms that have ravaged and reshaped parts of the British coastline have led to the discovery of wartime shells long-buried on beaches.
There are also fears that flooding along the Thames will erode riverbanks, leading to the discovery of bombs dropped on the area by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
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Posted on 2/26/14 at 10:58 am to Captain Ron
I know nothing about bombs other than what history classes have taught me. Can these still detonate? If not, I would be collecting the frick out of them.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:00 am to Captain Ron
cool shite
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:00 am to TheCaterpillar
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If not, I would be collecting the frick out of them.
I'd collect the frick out of them anyway. I'd love to have a few of those sitting up in my garage or on a bookshelf
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:00 am to TheCaterpillar
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an these still detonate? If not, I would be collecting the frick out of them.
Usually the firing pins were bad so they didn't explode in the first place, but there have been reports of 70 year old bombs going off on people so yes it can happen.
In the pacific some people collect them not knowing that they could still blow up on them. BNut if you found one and drilled it and removed the powder it would be safe.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:02 am to TheCaterpillar
Gotta be worth some coin... Unless they explode. It says shells so they may have already detonated
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:03 am to Napoleon
Germans. No, Really!
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:03 am to TheCaterpillar
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A bulldozer struck what authorities believe was a World War II-era bomb in a western German town Friday afternoon, causing a blast that killed the bulldozer driver, injured 13 other people and damaged homes, police said.
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Last year close to 160 tonnes of [World War I era shells] were unearthed from the below-sea-level soil around Ypres - from bullets to stick grenades to colossal 15 inch naval gun shells capable of tearing down an entire city block. This is the equivalent of five fully-loaded articulated lorries.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:04 am to Napoleon
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drilled it and removed the powder it would be safe.
just need a loooong drill bit.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:04 am to TheCaterpillar
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I know nothing about bombs other than what history classes have tau
Yes and they do quite often in Germany. An excavator operator in Germany was killed just a few months ago by a WWII bomb.
ETA someone beat me to it.
This post was edited on 2/26/14 at 11:05 am
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:05 am to Captain Ron
Blue paint = inert or practice bombs.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:06 am to Captain Ron
Damned global warming - thanks Al Gore.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:07 am to The Mick
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It says shells so they may have already detonated
when they detonate the shells become shrapnel and there is nothing left.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:10 am to Captain Ron
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rare First World War German mine surfaced on a beach near the popular Cornish resort of Newquay
Bet that is worth something.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:10 am to LSUTiger205
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Blue paint = inert or practice bombs.
I thought the same thing when I saw the pic.
And do these bombs really have powder? I always thought it was a solid mass of explosives stuffed in these things. Can't drill that out.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:10 am to TheCaterpillar
I sure as heck wouldn't touch the.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:14 am to CaptainsWafer
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wouldn't touch
[into radio]
"Hey Mike? Yeah, this is Bob down at the beach. Looks like a lot of scrap metal washed up out here like tons of it."
"Really? Well the weather has been pretty crazy lately, Bob."
"Don't I know it. Now that I get a little closer, they kind of look like old rusty bombs."
"That's weird."
"Yeah. Very strange. I wonder how heav..[BOOOOOOMMMMMMMM]"
"Bob? Bob? BOB?!!???"
This post was edited on 2/26/14 at 11:15 am
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:24 am to Captain Ron
This kind of thing is extremely common. I've worked with a group that digs up unexploded land mines from wars that have been over for decades. To this day, people are killed and maimed by landmines that were laid as long ago as WW1.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:40 am to Cold Cous Cous
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This is the equivalent of five fully-loaded articulated lorries.
The frick is a lorrie?
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