We Have An Unexploded Bomb Here

[pastafreak]

Found on Tuesday in a back garden...so far over 3,000 have been evacuated. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68372939

[SIRandyraven]

Been watching it on local news.

They are taking it very seriously. Local news even identified via museum or something called the Box, what bombing run it was probably dropped on.

[pastafreak]

Wow, I'd not heard that.

Yes, the Box is the museum up near the university. 

[SIRandyraven]

Hope it goes better than the one in Exeter in 2021.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65043133

[pastafreak]

I think that's a definite worry for many.

[SIRandyraven]

Loads being evacuated due to army relocating bomb to detonate it at sea. Poor fish swimming about on a Friday and boom 💥 

 

 

[pastafreak]

Lol...my daughter said the same about the fish. 

I had a 'severe alert' on my phone this morning...I'm just outside the new evacuation zone.

[davebro3]

Hope you have a blast!

[pastafreak]

SHUSSSSHHHH!!...

😨😩

 

[Old_Geezer]

3000 bombs evacuated, that's a lot of bombs 😉

 

You should've hid them in your shed Pasta.

[retrocop]

Think yourself lucky you don't live off the Thames Estuary or Sheerness. The residents there have lived with the munition laden American Liberty Ship on their doorstep with thousands of tons of TNT in a unstable state for years.It is checked yearly by R.N. Underwater Mine Clearance  and Bomb disposal experts as the remaining cargo is very unstable to salvage. If it went boom it would cause a mini Tsunami and shatter thousands of windows on the seafront. People live with that everyday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

[retrocop]

It's a well known fact that the poor little Island of Malta had more explosive ordnance dropped on it by the Luftwaffe and Italian Airforce than London during the Blitz.

[retrocop]

As a child I liven in a drive called Peel Drive,later to become Rowan Drive. Both named after old Police commissioners and it was part of the Police Training College estate. There were 47 houses in the estate for married police officers. We lived in No 47. I lived there from age 3 years to 17 years. Little did I know I was sleeping over a UXB for all those years.Rown drive has now gone along with most of the police estate.It is a stones throw from the old Hendon aerodrome which housed a Polish fighter Sqdn during the war. The bomb was probably originally destined for them when Goering wanted to eliminate British air power prior to eagle day and the invasion that never came.

[retrocop]

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Forgot the link

https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/16302461.world-war-two-bomb-found-hendon-will-blown-today/

[pastafreak]

That bomb must have been small for them to be able to detonate it do soon after it's discovery. 

[pastafreak]

I just went out to local shops...but met police and military personnel on the crossing. No access. Spoke to a nice young police officer who asked where I lived and if I'd gotten the alert.

[Lie-in King]

EEEK!  I hope you & your friends & neighbours don't end up too shell-shocked, Pasta X ❤️

[pastafreak]

Haha! Plymothians are hardy folk...and a little mad

[retrocop]

A anchorwoman on BBC news just asked a Bomb disposal expert if the soldiers accompanying thebomb on their slow meticulous route tobthe boat will be wearing suits. With 500kg of TNT under or next to uou I wonder what suit that silly woman had in mind.

[pastafreak]

Are there any suits that would give protection from being blown to smithereens? 

[ladybirder]

Me too, first thing I thought about were dolphins and whales.  Awful.