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German City Evacuates Half its Residents to Defuse Massive World War II Bomb

German City Koblenz Evacuates Half its Residents to Defuse Massive World War II Bomb

Sandbags frame a 1.8-ton World War II-era bomb in the Rhine river near Koblenz Saturday Dec. 3, 2011. Some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated so officials can try to defuse it. (AP Photo/dapd/ Harald Tittel)

The discovery of a massive World War II-era bomb means 45,000 residents of the western German city of Koblenz must evacuate so officials can try to defuse it.

The 10-foot, 1.8-ton British bomb was discovered in the Rhine river last week. Packed with more than 3,000 pounds of explosives, it is one of the largest unexploded bombs ever found and has the potential to demolish an entire city block.

City officials said Saturday the bomb will be defused early Sunday, requiring all residents who live within a 1.2-mile radius from the bomb site to leave their homes for the day.

The bomb was found last week alongside a 275-pound-bomb dropped there by U.S. forces during World War II, after the Rhine’s water level fell due to a prolonged lack of rain. A German smoke grenade was also found nearby, Stars and Stripes reported.

According to German media outlets, the bomb was sitting in about 16 inches of water, partially buried in mud, which made it difficult to access the detonation fuse, according to Stars and Stripes. Officials used sandbags to build a dam around it to gain easier access.

Officials said seven nursing homes, two hospitals and a prison are also being evacuated. Train and road traffic in the area, about 80 miles northwest of Frankfurt, will come to a halt.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (128)

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:01pm

    How does it happen that the Rhine is so low that this monster was only exposed after 70 years? Could it be–climate change? Nah, no chance.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:14pm

      The Thames river in England was very low in the 70s. It made the cover of Time magazine. This happens from time to time.

      There have been bad drought throughout history. The Roanoke colony was established during a bad drought. It died. The Anasazi may in part have been destroyed due to a very bad drought 400 years ago.

      Let’s not forget that Saudi Arabia had a major river that emptied into the Gulf near Kuwait. Probably one for the 4 Rivers of Eden. The Sahara was a lush savanna just prior to the start of recorded history.

      I bet you would be one to take your kids to the beach at the start of ebb tide & tell them the oceans were being sucked dry because of something men did.

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    • german_viewer
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:19pm

      Germany saw its driest November ion recorded history. Usually German Novembers (in most states at least) are dark, cloudy, cold and rainy. It’s not unusual to have straight 30 rainy days in November.

      This year almost every day was sunny and in most states not an single inch of rain fell throughout the whole month. I personally have never seen anything like that, neither have my (old) parents.

      And that’s the reason why many rivers are so low right now. And as Walkabout said: That happens sometimes.

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  • Matt
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:53pm

    They are clearly evacuating WAAYY too many people. The bomb is only enough to destroy one city block, but they are evacuating a 1.2 mile radius? That’s ridiculous! Just cord off a 1000 ft. perimeter and let life go on in the rest of the city. And don’t bother evacuating the prison. For goodness sake, they are criminals! Maybe an explosion is just what they need. And the hospitals, unless they are in the blast radius of the bomb, evacuating them will be riskier than not. Evacuating a hospital is sure to result in some deaths.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:30pm

      Maybe shrapnel arcing high could reach out to a mile away.

      But, yes it does seem a bit much.

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    • go2mikerenzi
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:58pm

      if the bomb can destroy a block it could send shrapnel and debris much further

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:35pm

      Lots of new commissions for the agent selling the renter’s insurance!

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 7:51pm

      It’s too bad it was a dude. Could have gotten rid of that many more NAZIs.

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    • ICRedifURBlue
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:02pm

      ……..flying glass from busted windows – shock wave…..most of the glass was already gone when this baby first fell……

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    • ScarletRose
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:40pm

      Stupid NOT to err on the side of caution in a case like that – the things could fizzle, or they could explode 10 times worse than anyone imagines. Better to clear them out and be safe than sorry.

      People are unbelievably tired of Stupid.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:29am

      I think they are evacuating the larger area, so the poor fellow with the task of defusing that sucker can have the full weight of the matter on his mind while he goes about his craft! If it were me, I’d be tempted to slap a little plastique on it and watch the fireworks! Damn fuse might be cracked and unreliable after all these years, not to mention the condition of the explosives after 65 years of ice and water! I guess by WWI, they weren’t using mercury fuliminate in the fuses anymore?

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    • JMorcan
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:44am

      Why all the fuss? It’s just a late Christmans present from the Allies.

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    • Charles
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:05am

      Wow. We have so many geniuses here

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:47am

      …seen this happen in downtown Charleston S.C. with a civil war era bomb (its what they said) in the late 1970′s under a side walk. Those GREAT U.S. Navy E.O.D. boys came in and took care of it. No problems.

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    • sapper
      Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:12pm

      I’m pretty sure they evacuation radius is designed around a route to remove the bomb. Having been in Koblenz while stationed not far from there I can say that it‘s going to have to be trucked out through neighborhoods if it’s anywhere near the town proper. If outside the town they really should just crane it to the center of the river with some semtex strapped on and detonate it under water. Worst that would happend is several thousand gallons of river get vaporized and a small part of the river would be deeper. The water itself would be the best barrier for detonation. Trucking it out exponentially increases the risk to property and people. Second observation is WOW……they must be having some kind of drought over there for the river to be down that much…….and lastly, after almost 70 years they really think there is viable explosive left in there? I seriously doubt it.

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  • John 1776
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:36pm

    Best thing to do would be to drill it with a robot and foam out most of the charge, then detonate the rest. Only safe way that does not involve putting someone in close contact. Sounds like the detonator package is under it. Even after 70 years, those pack were well protected and cased and probably still works. The best find would be if they found part of the outside case rusted through and a lot of the charge dissolved out over the years. No way of knowing.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:46pm

      “oam out most of the charge”

      Never heard of that. Interesting. You have a link?

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  • Mahdi Al-Dajjal
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:28pm

    Remember that old M*A*S*H episode where Hawkeye and Frank Burns are defusing an unexploded bomb that dropped in the middle of their camp? They get it all the way down to 2 wires and they don’t know which wire to cut. So Hawkeye asks Frank which wire to cut and Frank tells him to cut one wire. So, Hawkeye immediately cuts the other wire, and the bomb is defused without exploding. Hawkeye says “I knew you’d choose the wrong one, Frank!”…

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    • Matt
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:05pm

      HAHAHA you forgot to finish the story. Then the bomb DOES explode as they are about to walk away, but its just a CIA propaganda bomb and it covers the camp in leaflets. Then Father Mulcahy wins the football pool because hes the only one that bet against the Army and for the Navy. Hahahahaha! What a great episode!

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  • Pigpen
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:13pm

    PIPER60 said: “I hope they are successful. Nothing like past sins reaching out to bite you.”

    I can only assume that all of theBlazers here feel like Piper does that the ENTIRETY of the Germans, past and present, are ALL guilty of the Holocaust? —while avowing with no detectable irony to be the furtherst thing from RACIST when it comes to assigning collective guilt to any race OTHER than Germans? Anyone of you “Righteous Among the Goyim” here know anything about the horrors of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden? Anyone here know anything at ALL about WHY Germany was so anti-semitic during the 1930′s? If we can assign collective GUILT to the Germans, then why not to the Israelis? If you think that mad speeches by a nation’s leader is enough to assign collective guilt, then strap this one on:

    “Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.” – Menachem Begin. (Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-1983)

    This Comment is Awaiting Moderation by the Fascist-Zionist Editors at theBlaze

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:38pm

      “the ENTIRETY of the Germans, past and present, are ALL guilty of the Holocaust? —while avowing with no detectable irony to be the furtherst thing from RACIST when it comes to assigning collective guilt to any race OTHER than Germans”

      I agree with that portion of your comment.

      I’ll look into the Menachem Begin comment. I would not be surprised.

      Show me an ethnic group & I will be able to find some supremists in that group.

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    • Halloween
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:05pm

      Way to go, PIGPEN. Transfer your racism to the Blaze readers. Go troll another site.

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    • Pigpen
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:56pm

      WALKABOUT said, “Show me an ethnic group & I will be able to find some supremists [sic] in that group.”

      Um, the “supremacist” in question was NOT some marginalized, radical lunatic! Mr Begin was elected PRIME MINISTER of ISRAEL in a democratic process. Sorry, WALKABOUT, but you will have to try another SPIN TACTIC to defend your “Chosen People”

      HALLOWEEN said, “Way to go, PIGPEN. Transfer your racism to the Blaze readers. Go troll another site.”

      As you have resorted to calling me names, HALLOWEEN, I assume that you have neither any insights nor any evidence to refute my assertion that PIPER60’s statement was, like many others here on theBlaze, a hypocritical one?

      And as for me being a Troll, HALLOWEEN, all I have to say is that I have presented some very different ideas from the usual fare found here on theBlaze. And I have presented EVIDENCE to support those ideas. I have also challenged some very deeply held beliefs, so I am not surprised by the vitriol. And I have been called much WORSE than a Troll here on theBlaze. But for some reason none of you name callers are ever censored, but ALL of MY comments are MODERATED by theBlaze before they are allowed to be posted. I am no TROLL! And frankly, YOUR page, HALLOWEEN, says you have been a member of theBlaze forum for about 2-3 months, while I have been a Member Since: October 08, 2010 So maybe the Noobs should just step off!

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:11pm

      Pigpen you are a nut case how you can take something that old and obviously war related and twist it to your agenda is repulsive at best.

      Everyone in Germany has forgotten this part of their past and wish to keep it that way they understand what happened in those times and accept it for what it was on both sides we forgave each other for our sins and helped us all to a better life and understanding of each other.

      Something we are lacking now in this time and age

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    • COFemale
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:43pm

      I find it interesting that someone would hold German’s born after the Holocaust accountable for the Holocaust. That is like saying I am responsible for slavery of blacks in the United States. Sorry, the sins of the father do not permeate to the children. Now if I enslave someone, like the Progressives are doing now, then I would agree I should be held accountable. However, I am not enslaving anyone, so I have nothing to feel ashamed or guilty. You all on the other hand might want to look at yourselves and complete a thorough assessment. Oh, that is correct you have no logic and therefore can’t think on your own.
      MY BAD!

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    • TiredinAZ
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 6:48pm

      I lived through the time of Menachem Begin and could not remember any such words ever coming out of his mouth or anything similar, so I actually looked this up BEFORE passing it on. This link will take you to an article that discusses its origins. http://begincenterdiary.blogspot.com/2009/05/correcting-misquotation-reputedly-by.html
      This also explains why it has only been reported in the last few years on the internet. You can cut and paste and have anyone say anything you want on the internet. Grow up.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 7:04pm

      Somehow finding an article on Jewish immigration into Weimar Germany is impossible. Wiki miraculously skips from 1900 to 1933. If times are tough die to depression or recession, your country just lost a war, there has been endemic anti-Jewish feeling since AD400, mass immigration into a country is a problem waiting to explode.

      “The emergence of new members in the European Union has revived anxieties that would have been familiar to anybody a hundred years ago — of migration of Eastern Europeans to Western Europe — when many Polish and Russian based Jews and other ethnic minorities were seeking to escape from the relatively repressive regimes where they lived.” -by Niall Ferguson, Historian

      http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/thenandnow/index.html

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 7:35pm

      Sorry, I’ve not seen the post you are ranting about.

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    • Clear Thinker
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 7:59pm

      Begin never said such things. The “quotation” was an invention written by radical French-Israeli journalist, Amnon Kapeliouk. Kapeliouk is the original source, reporting on a speech given by Begin that discussed terrorists who kill intentionally women and children. Kapeliouk chose to not only misquote Begin, but to write words that Begin never uttered.

      So much for the Orwellian reality of the Progressive left.

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:03pm

      Pigpen, if “they are successful”, the bomb will be disarmed, and no one will be harmed. You are hoping for a different outcome?

      You suffer from a sickness in your soul.

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    • Choctaw25
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:36am

      PigPen, you need to switch to Decaf !!!!!!!!!

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:27pm

      @TiredinAZ………….Touche’

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    • Starkadder
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:57pm

      Anybody who is even slightly educated on the subject blames Darwin for the Holocaust. Wasn’t the roots of the “Master Race” mentality based in the eugenics movement? Eugenics can be directly laid in Darwins lap.
      As a side note Margaret Sanger was Eugenicist as is most of the modern Progressive movement.

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  • Robert999
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:02pm

    They started it.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:04pm

      The French did in 1648 & again around 1800. Heck Napolean had quite a hand in making Germany a superpower. Unintended Consequences indeedy.

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    • Matt
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:07pm

      Actually, WWI was somewhat of a mistake on everyone’s side. Then WWII was started by Hitler, but Hitler was only able to come to power because of the harsh economic sanctions that the Allies placed on Germany after WWI. So you could in a sense say that when Hitler attacked us we were getting exactly what we deserved for disobeying God and not forgiving them after WWI.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:42pm

      Matt

      I misread your post. Sorry, but I usually see red. WWII Germany is an universally approved boogeyman. People have no concept of the Sun King’s wars of imperialism, Versailles, the 2 Balkan Wars & the two competing systems of alliances for protection.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 6:10pm

      The reason we can‘t see things like you Walkabout is because we don’t have a demented perception of history. The moment you use the term imperialism, then I know you are only repeating what you are told and are just a robot for the Communist Liberal And Progressives, otherwise know as the CLAP !

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:54pm

      1. The policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.

      “Now France began an AGGRESSIVE policy of EXPANDING EASTWARD, first to the Rhône and Meuse Rivers, and when those borders were reached, to the Rhine.”

      “It is important to note that memories of the Napoleonic Wars were still quite fresh in the 1870s. Right up until the Franco-Prussian War, the French had maintained a long-standing desire to establish their entire eastern frontier on the Rhine, and thus they were viewed by most 19th century Germans as an aggressive, war-mongering people. ”

      Looks like France was expansionist, Imperialist.

      Look up the quotes yourself.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:00pm

      COFemale

      Oh & Communism does work albeit on a small scale (150 people or less). I would never advocate it on a large scale because empirically it has been shown that it never works for any length of time not even a generation. You could call what the oligarchy that it inevitably devolves into a communist state, but that is a lie. That state can only be maintained by brute force.

      And I was right about France & Germany.

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:40pm

      @Matt
      You are somewhat correct but they could of not gone that direction at all they had other choices not just one.

      And yes we were all to blame in many ways to much pointing fingers to much macho bravado was going around after WW1 some wanted Germany too suffer and that was wrong.

      Defeating them then pushing their faces in the mud was not a smart thing to do but people wanted revenge and that leads to wrong choices.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:01am

      The harsh treatment of Germany after World War I was in part the result of democracy. Unlike Napoleon or Louis XIV, the victor governments in 1919 knew they would have to answer to a mass electorate, millions among whom had lost loved ones in the war as well as enduring suffering on the home fronts. Having goaded their people on in 1914-1918 with a promise to make the Germans pay,they could not turn on a dime and announce that all was forgiven, though that would have been the rational as well as the Christian thing to do. Conversely, had Germany won World War I, the peace settlement would have been just as harsh, as the 1918 terms of Brest-Litovsk proved.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 4:48pm

      Lloyd Drako

      That is right on the money. Can’t argue with that. Appreciate that insight.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:14pm

      jinkeez scoob!!

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  • snufy
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:47pm

    This is all part of the Fast and Furious operation. They just had a bigger bomb than they could swim with.

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:21pm

    Well Obama has done so much to make the world a better place, seems to me he’s the man for the job. Send him over to defuse the bomb.

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  • tgp42rhr
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:10pm

    Many years ago, in Germany, they found a 500 lb bomb in the center of the city. It exploded due to tempeture changes from day to night, no one was hurt but a lot of property damage. The end result was a very nice stone paved park with a cascading pond and fountain.

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    • liberalescheisskopf
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:24pm

      Ja,Lloyd Drako thinks it is climate change. Ist snowing here in December! Must be der climate change. Ja?

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  • food plot 7.62
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:40am

    A little Jack and break out the pliers.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:05pm

      1 shot would improve coordination & attitude.

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    • Dabldo
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:20pm

      2 shots steadies the hands. 5-6 and you may not care as much what the outcome is…… Best keep it to two.

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  • AB5r
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:31am

    I wasn’t aware that they were using conventional explosives of that massive a size. How many of them could a bomber carry? According to this video about a really massive 22000lb bomb, 1000 pounds was considered big. It says that the airplane was the limited factor in the size of bombs.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08f_1215297182

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:59am

      Probably found it next to a hospital or church right? lol

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    • TROONORTH
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:31pm

      This 22,000 lb bomb, being British, was probably carried by the most successful bomber of the second world war; the AVRO LANCASTER. The ‘Lanc’ was famous for her huge bomb load and pin-point bombing cabability. This bomb was most likely a ‘bunker buster’ dropped from a damaged bomber.

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  • ddg7
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:27am

    Send Sandusky to difuse it!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:32pm

      If you don’t want someone to live in your community, why would you want them to work for you?

      To do an honest days labor is holy.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:22am

    Oh, and I am shocked and surprised that this isn’t somehow related to AGW.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:21am

    There needs to be an investigation to find out who provided this defective bomb to the British.

    Hey, just trying to find a different angle, folks!

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:07am

    If you need me I’ll be with the women.

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  • Skrewedretiree
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:05am

    I suppose there are German mooslums checking to see if it will go on Ebay.

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  • J.C. McGlynn
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:01am

    This is a little one. The British used up to 20,000 lbs. in weight, carried by a modified Lancaster bomber, called the “Blockbuster”.

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    • AB5r
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:34am

      I just posted a link above to a video that is about that. What was the average bomb weight? They must have had to trade off between size and the number a plane could carry.

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    • drago
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:37am

      @J.C.
      The largest “blockbuster” or “cookie” bomb as they were called, only weighed 12k pounds, not 20k, fyi.

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    • PROV1X
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:06pm

      called the grandslam

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    • Endstatism
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 7:25pm

      This might be the “Tall Boy” bomb that was used by the Brits in WW2 If so, that bomb can flatten a very large area beyond one block.

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  • SergeantMajor
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:44am

    I pity the fool that tries to diffuse this baby. Best thing would probably be to try to either move it somewhere else and blow it up or blow it in place. Maybe chunk it in the ocean and set ‘er off – do some real fishing :)

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    • Unix
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:47am

      Slap some C4 on her and getterdone!

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    • TheSitRep
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:29am

      The pic showed it having a shaped charge mounted on it.
      Blowing in place it the only safe option.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Have some muslims do it, they’re bomb experts.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:33pm

      Lol

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  • shipwreckkelley
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:42am

    We can let OBAMA deactivate it & IF he is successful he gets to keep his “Nobel Peace Prize.”
    Eric Holder gets to watch.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:27am

      Oh…I COULD add a good joke here, but Secret Service might not find it funny!
      So, I’ll pass on this one.

      But, BOY….IS IT FUNNY! hahahaha

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    • shipwreckkelley
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:36pm

      Damn, would love to hear it!

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  • Vet with Vendetta
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:41am

    It’s the RED wire!

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    • JimmyP
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:51am

      1) No wait…

      2) Call McGuiver, quick!

      3) Thank you Al Gore for inventing Global Warming, Global Cooling and Global Climate Change and making this all possible.

      (Sorry, Mr Obvious, I couldn’t resist.)

      Please dear Lord, protect those Affected by this finding and their efforts to end this.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:38am

    God above let them defuse it safely indeed; how many of these things do they find each year is what I have to wonder? I have heard so many different accounts of the talley that it is confusing.

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    • dnewton
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:45am

      If that happened here, it would take three years just to figure out who had jurisdiction. We would have to get input from the EPA, Homeland Security, The plumbers union, National Council of Peaceniks or BAFT. Meanwhile a phalanx of grant writers would be pushing paper toward congress to get some social justice money and to make sure there was a green disposal of the contents of the bomb.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:35am

    Hope and pray no one gets hurt. God bless those that do that horrible job.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:30am

    Good luck guys. Glad I’m not the one going in to defuse it!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:38am

      Indeed.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:39am

      So, someone is going to have to try to defuse an almost 70 year old bomb, that’s been sitting in water and is probably a big, chunk of rust, and filled with very old, unstable explosives?…..Whatever they pay the guy, it probably won’t be nearly enough……good luck….

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:21am

      Actually, when you watch the video, they are going to blow it up. The written story is a bit misleading.

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  • piper60
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:28am

    I hope they are successful. Nothing like past sins reaching out to bite you.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:24am

      Thats what I was thinking, “still kicking thier ass after all these years”. Remember, the only thing that has changed in Germany is thier ability to wage war. When the Euro dies, I will bet 10 to 1 Germany responds with troops in Greece and Italy.

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    • Matt
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:59pm

      How racist of you. Hitler‘s rise was not anymore the German’s fault than it was the alliance of countries that intentionally created the adverse economic and political situation that allowed him to come to power. Had we, as the allies, forgiven Germany after WWI as Christ would have had us do HItler never would have come to power. Furthermore, the way world politics are going these days I’d say that Germany is the LAST country at risk for possibly adopting a fascist dicator when the world economy collapses because their economy might actually survive a eurozone or a world collapse. But I think the top 3 at most risk countries are Greece, the UK, and the US, in that order. And don’t come at me with your ethnocentric machismo. Our constitution is ALREADY in tatters, so don‘t think we couldn’t descend into fascism, the only difference between us and the Wiemar at this juncture is that we haven’t yet had a hyperinflation.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:01pm

      I like how the French can invade a region & then force all the people to speak French. Only French can be taught in schools. They tried forcibly turn people culturally into Frenchmen. What do you think WWI & WWII were about. Let’s not go back to 1875. Let’s go back to 1648 for one of the major roots or WWII. There is awfully lot of war mongering to go around.

      Come to think of it it was the French who invaded Mexico in the 1860s & oppressed the Mexican people.

      Where did you all get your history? A crack Jack box?

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:39pm

      @@@@@Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:01pm
      You have twisted history…

      The Inquisition of the Catholics Church had control over France for many years (100yrs?). They were FORCED to speak LATIN. Many of their words are latin today or have root words of latin just like most of Americas English has. So if the French have pride for their country it is ok to have French tough messed up a bit with that harsh sounding LATIN. It is their country and no one else’s!

      American should only speak, write, and understand AMERICAN ENGLISH as it was until 15 yrs ago. We are going to make it official in the near future!

      The American Union Army took time in 1862 and just showed up at the border of Mexico near the Gulf, the French turned away, and that was the end of that. Tough its is our victory that is the May 5th of Cinco-de-Mayo the illegal aliens celebrate in America for PRIDE of race. Mexico has never put much into the celebration down there and most do not celebrate it all.

      Remember your are a guest of the country your

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:19pm

      Yup, France invaded Mexico. Part of this was over money borrowed from other countries.

      Borrowing money is goooooood! Other countries would never invade over indebtedness. They have never in past!

      “The Franco-Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by an expeditionary force sent by the Second French Empire, supported in the beginning by the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Spain. It followed President Benito Juárez’s suspension of interest payments to foreign countries on 17 July 1861, which angered Mexico’s major creditors: Spain, France and Britain.” -wiki

      “The rule of Emperor Maximiliano was blemished by constant conflict. On his arrival in 1864 with his wife, Empress Carlota of Mexico, daughter of King Léopold I of the Belgians, he found himself in the middle of a political struggle between the Conservatives that backed him and the opposing Liberals, headed by Benito Juárez. The two factions had set up parallel governments; the Conservatives in Mexico City controlling central Mexico and the Liberals in Veracruz. The Conservatives received funding from Europe, especially from Isabella II of Spain and Napoleon III of France; the Liberals found backing from United States Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, after they had finished their own Civil War in 1865.” -wiki

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:23pm

      Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:19pm
      Your an idiot, dont ever put wiki out as an absolute source to me. It is easy and has a format I like, direct and to the point but only to the point of who entered the info. I always study their conclusion before I promote it as a truth. Sometimes I will offer it as referrence only.

      You are wrong about the French in Mexcio and over looked the Latin influence their langage had from the Catholic Inqusition, I guess your catholic

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:05pm

      NoRoomForSocialismHere

      So no French troops landed in Mexico in the 1860s? Maximillian was born in Mexico? Whatever.

      One more thing. the Catholic church probably had some thing to do with the French speaking a Romance language, but so too did all the Romans that had settled there. They didn’t all die during the Migration Period.

      Also the French passed laws outlawing the speaking of Non French Languages ion the last 100 years in the ALsace Lorrain region.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:17am

      @Matt
      you said:How racist of you. Hitler‘s rise was not anymore the German’s fault than it was the alliance of countries that intentionally created the adverse economic and political situation that allowed him to come to power.
      So, instead of the people of Germany stopping this madman in his tracks, you think forgiving the crimes of Germany and the debt would have made a difference? You sir, have a liberal mind, and not such a good one. Germany is a nation of followers, that do not produce good leaders because of it.
      Racist? You think Germans are a race of people?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:48am

      Stopping Hitler in his tracks like the bomb that went off an hour after he left a meeting in Munich about 1923? Stopping Hitler in his tracks when paramilitaries Communist & SA had more men than the military? Stopping Hitler in his tracks when the communists & SA goons fought it out in the streets & the SA won? Who was going to stop the SA then? The average person in the street suffering from hyperinflation was going to worry about stopping Hitler in the early 20s or worry about putting food on the table. Hitler in the 20s sounded quite a bit like many Europeans, many were anti-semitic. There was the Thule society for example.

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  • dalebrendan
    Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:28am

    Kaboom!

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