Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, January 13, 2020

UXB: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

German disposal experts have detonated two unexploded bombs from World War II that were discovered in the western city of Dortmund. Some 14,000 residents were ordered to leave their homes for the operation.

Two 250-kilogram (550-pound) bombs were safely defused in Dortmund's southwest on Sunday following a large-scale evacuation and the closure of the city's main train station.

The city administration said earlier that special disposal teams had discovered four suspected bombs from World War II in the densely populated Klinikviertel (clinic quarter). But substrata searches of the area confirmed that two of the objects were not explosives.

The other two devices — an American bomb and a British bomb — were successfully detonated on Sunday afternoon.
I don't buy that they were 550lb bombs. They were 500lb bombs. Neither the Brits nor the Americans did metric shit during the Second World War.

10 comments:

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

That'll teach them Krauts not to bomb Pearl Harbor

DTWND said...

Pearl Harbor?
Forget it. He’s rolling.



(Sorry, just had to)
Dale

Deadstick said...

He's channeling Belushi, Dave...;-)

CenterPuke88 said...

Yea, but a 227.27 kg bomb doesn’t trip off the tongue like 250 kg. The German public is the likely topic of the original story from Deutsche Welle, so a little license was taken for relatability?

seafury said...

Take it from and old redleg artilleryman. Chisel and a ball peen hammer will defuse them. Just don't send anyone whose who has a critical job.

seafury said...

Edit as I recall the EOD Gus I knew drank a lot.

seafury said...

Guys GUYs not enough coffee yet.

Comrade Misfit said...

Just don't send anyone whose who has a critical job.

Or who owes you money.

CenterPuke88 said...

Brings back the memories of sitting down to watch “Danger UXB” on the local PBS station in 1981. That was a commitment, 13 weeks, no VCR, no repeats...smashing series.

Tod Germanica said...

Yes Center, great show. Bet those 1940 luftwaffe bombs be pretty puny compared with Berlin's buried blockbusters dropped by 'Bomber' Harris's RAF late in the war.