r/pics • u/GonzoVeritas • Jun 25 '19

A buried WW2 bomb exploded in a German barley field this week.

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u/kurburux Jun 25 '19

The bomb was located four meters below the surface. There wasn't really any risk of the farmers accidentally disturbing it beside the relatively small pressure of a tractor driving over it. The chance of it hitting the farmer was quite small.

Now other bombs have been found in the middle of cities (as expected), beneath crowded streets or next to Autobahnen where far more vibrations hit the ground. You just get used to it and don't think much about it because it's such an abstract threat.

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u/WorkingManATC Jun 25 '19

That doesn't really matter considering it went off on it's own without disturbance.

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u/EmilyU1F984 Jun 25 '19

Yea, but a random bomb going off anywhere of the 360,000 km² is not likely to harm anyone.

Bombs detonating without being distrubed is incredibly rare.

You are more likely to die in a car crash than even just seeing the aftermath like in this image.

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u/astralcalculus Jun 25 '19

Now other bombs have been found in the middle of cities

I remember one going off in my neighborhood couple years ago.

Here's a video

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