whow!! LOOK: A WW2 bomb was detonated in the English town of Exeter on Saturday. The bomb was disco

[riversedge]

My guess is that lots of properties were blown up also.


LOOK: A WW2 bomb was detonated in the English town of Exeter on Saturday.

The bomb was discovered a day earlier and led to the evacuation of 2,600 properties. The Devon and Cornwall Police said the resulting crater was “around the size of a double decker bus”

Link to tweet

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. the blitz goes on

[rzemanfl]

2. Disco is a word, just not the one you wanted. n/t

[Wednesdays]

3. ...

[lpbk2713]

4. It was a blast.

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[Talitha]

5. Wouldn't de-activating it be more logical?

[FSogol]

7. Logical, but probably not as safe. n/t

[PatSeg]

9. Probably too unstable after almost 80 years

Humanity ends up living with the repercussions of war decades after it ends. Bombs and landmines tend to outlive those who were responsible for their initial use.

Here's some more info on the bomb.

The blast impact from the German device - a so-called "Hermann bomb" - was described by police as "significant", with debris thrown at least 820ft (250m) away.

A number of properties "predominantly" within the 100m-zone "suffered structural damage, including broken windows and cracked walls", according to the Devon and Cornwall force.

"Debris, including large metal objects, were thrown in the blast, some of which landed on nearby roofs, which require the use of a crane to remove," a spokesperson said.

About 1,400 students were among the evacuees following the find by builders on private land next to the University of Exeter's Streatham campus at about 09:20 GMT on Friday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-56229045

[George II]

16. It was about 80 years old. Who knows how much deterioration or corrosion occurred. Bombs weren't....

....designed to last very long.

[Aristus]

6. The immense amounts of exploded ordnance in World War II

make it easy to forget how much unexploded ordnance is still around.

[onethatcares]

8. I wonder how much ordnance

we left behind in our various soirees' into other countries.

Mines, bombs, bomblets,

Seems there's always a better way to kill our "enemies" .

Imagine 300 of that type of bomb being dropped on a city at one time.....

[AllaN01Bear]

10. they are still finding many unexploded munitions from world war 1 and other

wars . they will be finding those untill kingdom come . gah. they are still finding unexploded relics from our civil war. then there is those horrible land mines left all over the place .

[Wednesdays]

11. From even longer ago...

U.S. Civil War
https://abc11.com/society/couple-hunting-seashells-on-nc-beach-finds-live-civil-war-shell-instead/5417042/

How about Napoleon's era?
https://waterloouncovered.com/dig-diary-day-9-bombs-and-buttons/

American Revolution!
https://www.abroadintheyard.com/royal-navy-18th-century-time-bomb-discovered-new-york-central-park/

[NutmegYankee]

13. That Civil War Parrot Rifle shell - recognized it on sight.

But I'm a civil war artillery reenactor, Union.

[The Revolution]

12. I went to Flanders in 2019

I took a WW1 related tour, and one of the stops was a farm where we saw shells that the farmer had pulled from the ground that week and set out for collection.

Our guide made a really interesting point, that the armies of the great powers descended on Belgium in the first world war, and though the armies eventually left, the war never did...the people there live with it every day.

Something to consider when countries consider going to war.

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. And, of course, the somewhat more recent phenomenon of land mines.

Laotians and other inhabitants are still having their legs blown off, all these decades later.

[Pepsidog]

14. Holy shit. That's crazy.

[CaptainTruth]

15. I think you meant "disco was the bomb"

[link:|]

[bluecollar2]

17. When I was very young

There were still areas near my grandfather's house in london that were still fenced off because they hadn't been fully cleared...

Just made it more appealing to us to go "exploring"...

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Bombs that size release an unbelievable amount of energy.

They damage FAR more buildings that the one they actually hit directly.

Look at OKC. The Murrah Building was all but destroyed, and anyone conscious at any time over the last 30 years has seen that, but one of the things that was very under-reported was the damage to the area surrounding it. More than 300 buildings were damaged or destroyed within a 16 block radius.

[electric_blue68]

19. Geeeeebs! Wow, never heard that part. :( Terrible.

That was a horrific day. 😔

[tandem5]

20. glad they evacuated and are staying alive, staying alive