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zipplewrath

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3. Most likely did

Reply to iscooterliberally (Reply #2)

Wed May 15, 2019, 01:29 PM

May 2019

One doesn't want to fool around of course, but the reality is it didn't go off 70 years ago for a reason, and those reasons haven't gotten fixed being buried in the ground all that time. The explosive inside doesn't just "go off", and in fact was designed specifically not to do that. You can't do it with a match, or a torch or something. It will burn, but it won't particularly explode.

None the less, one would hate to be the person around the ONE TIME all hell broke loose.

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World War II bomb in Hamburg prompts evacuation [View all] iscooterliberally May 2019 OP

That's got be a colonic clench for the construction crews and emergency ppl irisblue May 2019 #1

I hope it went well, or is going well. This story is from yesterday apparently. iscooterliberally May 2019 #2

Most likely did zipplewrath May 2019 #3

these things do occasionally explode rampartc May 2019 #4

Not WWII 1000 lb bombs zipplewrath May 2019 #5