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WWII exploisive causes world cup flak
Halfyank
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Posted: Friday, June 02, 2006 - 02:24 AM UTC
That last part was pun firmly intended.

"The media center in Berlin, next to the stadium set to host the World Cup final, was evacuated Friday when a World War II explosive was found on the grounds."

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5660360

That World War II stuff will get you one way or the other.


Grumpyoldman
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Posted: Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 05:38 AM UTC
Yep, those things are still pretty well disrupting life in Europe, There was one about a German Bomb in a UK river the other day. I read some where that in France, the farmers were still plowing up WW1 shells and grenades.
jabo6
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Posted: Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 05:47 AM UTC
the french and belgian armies have units dedicated to doing just that. the french were even storing old gas munitions that they had recovered from ww1 battlefields in a village without the locals knowlege, that is before the gas started leaking
Mech-Maniac
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Posted: Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:51 AM UTC
silly bombs...they'll getcha'
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Posted: Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 01:59 PM UTC
some time ago (i don't remember the exact period,guess a few months ago) a private storage was discovered in the house of a french civilian. He lived near the border with belgium and was a collector of WW1-relics. In his house the police found more than 4 000 000kg of amunitions and explosives that he had found in the wW1-battlefields...