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The trouble with WWII munitions buried in the ground is that a lot of them do still have detonators and after being buried in the ground for a few decades you h
by makomk 11y ago
The trouble with WWII munitions buried in the ground is that a lot of them do still have detonators and after being buried in the ground for a few decades you have no idea what state they're in - they can be rather rather unstable. Some of the bombs were also designed to detonate when moved in order to kill bomb disposal workers.
- trhway 11y agoIt is not about discussing on technical details - we're all adults and nobody of us is going to touch that stuff in any condition :) The post was about a junior midschooler - me more than 30 years ago - who during that time had with friends found and "responsibly recycled" (in the forest outside of the city :) a range of various WWII munitions without any issues (while adults at the military installations and Navy base in the city had pretty regularly various mishaps, sometimes deadly, with their weapons systems and hardware) Today, if i had a son, i'd be trying to scare him away from the stuff the same way (or even stronger as the same way didn't work on us back then), and i'd tear him a new one if i caught him with a hand grenade in the backpack :). It is the circle of life i guess...