• Experts defuse unexploded WWII bomb in central Berlin
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[quote]Berlin (CNN) -- Bomb disposal experts have successfully disabled a World War II bomb discovered near the main station in the German capital, Berlin, police said Wednesday. Dozens of homes in central Berlin were evacuated ahead of the delicate operation to remove the bomb's mechanical fuse. In total, 839 people were evacuated as police cleared an area within a 300-yard radius of the bomb. The 100-kilogram (220 pound) device was a Russian aerial bomb dropped during World War II, police said. "They do risk a lot, but they have a lot of experience," Berlin police spokesman Jens Berger said as the bomb disposal team set to work. "Here in Berlin it is a fact of daily life to defuse bombs, but without question they are risking a lot."[/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/world/europe/germany-berlin-bomb/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]
Imagine how many more there probably is and if they went off >.>
One less surprise to step on.
Bomb squad members are probably the most badass people around. It'd take a lot to convince me to go anywhere near a live bomb, let alone defuse the damn thing.
The bomb squad are pretty much heroes.
I can only imagine how much they're called out for this, being in Berlin. I know during WW2, when the soviets assaulted the city, they dropped more explosives on it than the US/UK bombers did throughout all their bombings on the city.
Last year they detonated a bomb in Munich. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrFydaWOTpI[/media] There should be thousands of them in Germany... hell maybe even one under my house.
[quote]In total, 839 people were evacuated[/quote] I wonder how they got that figure
Sometimes we just step on them but then It's no biggie we just get up, brush the dust out of the shirt and go on.
[QUOTE=proch;40143061]Sometimes we just step on them but then It's no biggie we just get up, brush the dust out of the shirt and go on.[/QUOTE] My limbs may get crippled but it's fine, just gotta get that stimpak or a good night's sleep and I'm back on track
[QUOTE=Reader;40142966]I wonder how they got that figure[/QUOTE] They know how many people live in the evacuated area.
[QUOTE=Reader;40142966]I wonder how they got that figure[/QUOTE] maybe they counted
We have one of those pretty much every 2 or 3 years in the + 200k towns of Germany.
[QUOTE=Chickens!;40142840]The bomb squad are pretty much heroes.[/QUOTE] I prefer bomb squid.
how many bombs were dropped in Berlin? just wondering
[QUOTE=777ecnatsiser;40143599]how many bombs were dropped in Berlin? just wondering[/QUOTE] Not sure about Berlin but Germany as a whole is caked in them. [quote]Thousands of UXOs from the Second World War are still uncovered each year in Germany. The daily average is 15, most of them aerial bombs.[13] Concentration is especially high in Berlin, where also lots of artillery shells and smaller munitions from the Battle of Berlin are uncovered each year. While most cases only make local news, one of the more spectacular finds in recent history was an American 500-pound aerial bomb discovered in Munich on 28 August 2012.[14] As it was deemed too unsafe for transport, it had to be exploded in situ, shattering windows over a wide area of Schwabing and causing structural damage to several homes despite precautions to minimize damage. In 2011, a 1.8-tonne RAF bomb from in the Second World War was uncovered in Koblenz on the bottom of the Rhine River after a prolonged drought. It caused the evacuation of 45,000 people from the city and was called "the biggest bomb-related evacuation in Germany's post-war history".[15] One of the largest individual pieces ever found was an unexploded 'Tallboy' bomb uncovered in the Sorpe Dam in 1958.[/quote] Also: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest[/url]
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