Jack's home sick and making trouble today instead of working. He sent me a link to an article in Der Spiegel:
In the whole of Germany, more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions ranging from German hand grenades and tank mines to Russian artillery shells are recovered each year. Barely a week goes by without a city street or motorway being cordoned off or even evacuated in Germany due to an unexploded bomb being discovered.
2 comments:
Charles, this is just the press picking up a superfluous scare-story, just because the head of bomb-disposal is being pensioned off.
Let me put it in perspective.
Not a SINGLE person has been injured, because the squads are good!
In Germany 8 people die of AIDS daily, but no press article on that?
In the USA 40,000+ people die in traffic accidents every year, but I don't see you banning cars.
Get real, please!
I didn't read it as a scare story. I take it as a good history lesson. I am amazed by the sheer number and size of bombs still turning up. Used to see stories occasionally about unexploded ordnance turning up in England, but it was news because it was unusual.
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