Sunday, December 4, 2011

Ach du Liebe!

I don't know how many times I've driven through here:

KOBLENZ, Germany — Officials in Germany's western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as officials try to defuse a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river.

The BBC reported that this is the biggest bomb-related evacuation ever in Germany since the war.

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3 comments:

merlallen said...

In my senior year of high school a bomb was found buried in our baseball diamond. that was in Zweibrucken.

Fixer said...

Amazing where they find shit over there. The family home in Hauenstein has a crack running up the wall in the stairway from an Allied artillery shell that landed in the back yard. My grandmother said a few landed in the trout pond behind the house and she doesn't think they all went off. Nobody ever checked. She also threw a bunch of my grandfather's old "war souvenirs" in there so I'd bet there's a few thousand rounds of ammo in there along with what the Allies dropped.

merlallen said...

damn.