Huge unexploded WWII bomb found in London

[Blue_Tires]

Builders uncovered a huge unexploded German World War II bomb in London on Monday, prompting the evacuation of two schools and hundreds of homes. The bomb, measuring five feet long (1.5 metres) and weighing 1000 pounds (455 kilogrammes) lay undisturbed below a pensioners' centre for seven decades in a densely populated southeastern part of the British capital.

"Seems our OAPs (old age pensioners) are hard as nails, drinking tea on top of a 1000lb bomb for 70 years," Lucas Green, a councillor in the riverside London borough of Southwark, wrote on Twitter.

He added that the bomb was buried two to three metres underground and still had its tail fin intact, and advised residents to open their windows and keep their curtains closed in case of a blast.

"It's a World War II-era German bomb," a spokeswoman for the Defence Ministry said, adding that bomb disposal experts were expected to continue working into Tuesday to make the area safe again.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/huge-unexploded-wwii-bomb-found-in-london/ar-BBiDMI7

[SheilaT]

1. There is actually a surprising amount of such things

around.

If you get a chance, read the book Aftermath: The Remnants of War by Donovan Webster. It came out in 1998, but I suspect is still quite relevant today.

[Logical]

6. There is a 2001 documentary also based on the book! Nt

[Blue_Tires]

11. There's actually a lot of live WWI shells still around

they get dug up from time to time in Belgium and elsewhere...

[anotojefiremnesuka]

18. There 4 million mines still in Cambodia…just sayin

[SheilaT]

21. Yep. The book talks all about it.

It also talks about shells surfacing from the Franco-Prussian War. Fascinating book. I recommend it highly.

[yuiyoshida]

14. wow

guess this happens alot?

[PatrynXX]

15. probably about as much as halting construction over native american bones in the USA n/t

[derby378]

2. At first, I thought you were talking about Rick Astley's newest single

[Warpy]

3. A lot of dud bombs got lost in the Blitz

They fell so fast and in such numbers that neighborhood patrols just lost track of how many had fallen and where, tends to happen when non duds have set everything around you on fire.

Those open windows are going to make for a lot of chilly people in London, March not being one of the kinder months.

I hope this thing can be defused safely and if not, detonated with minimal damage.

[irisblue]

4. those old age pensioners were the ones who stopped Hitler

Can you imagine the colonic response of the person who found it?

[HereSince1628]

9. Imagine...some of them may have evac'd from London blitz as chidren

to be protected from the bombing...only to spend their retirements sitting on top of one.

That irony seems suitable for a plot to a BBC tv series.

[Mariana]

22. The ones over 90 or so, sure.

Sadly, most of the WWII veterans have left us.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. Impossible. Only the US bombed population centers in WWII.

False flag. Planted by the CIA.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Said no one ever......... nt

[Rex]

10. Sometimes you have to wonder what

makes a person so incredibly bitter like that.

[closeupready]

13. I know, right? On every. Fucking. Topic. About. ANYTHING.

It could be a topic about daisies, or photons, or the Gallapagos sea turtle. It used to irritate me; now, frankly, I find it sad, not irritating at all.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Not enough hugs?.......

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Danger UXB

[Cooley Hurd]

12. Do you know what this means?

Germany could still win the war!!!!!

(heard on Seth Meyers last night...)

[irisblue]

17. nazi cows + jon stewart

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/sb8kv7/inglourious-burgers

[Nuclear Unicorn]

19. I was wondering what had become of Piers Morgan.

[lpbk2713]

20. Quite often German ordnance was assembled by prisoners.

POWs and concentration camp labor was often used to assemble bombs, rockets and artillery
rounds. It was by no accident that some didn't explode when they were supposed to. Many
lives, military and civilian, were saved by factory workers the intended victims will never know.

[appalachiablue]

23. That's great-

[Jenoch]

24. I had a cousin, his wife, and MIL who were

in a labor camp in The Netherlands making ordinance.