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Old news a month ago, but Singaporean military EOD teams were called in to Geylang to determine if an uncovered explosive was safe.
A third-party company specialized in removing unsafe materials was called in to assist.
Edited by Ominae on Aug 26th 2019 at 7:54:20 AM
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Because you people like this stuff. No news as to the size of it but homes within a 200m radius have been evacuated.
Which is fine by me because if it was say 500m or so I'd be packing a bag right now.
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At 5 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon a man discovered a rusty object had begun to burst into flames on a slope in his backyard near Huweipaotai Park (the remains of a fortress) on Zhongzheng Road in New Taipei City's Tamsui District, reported SETN. When the man realized it was an unexploded bomb, he immediately dialed 119.
When police arrived on the scene, they cordoned off an area of 90 meters around the bomb, evacuated 14 people living the area, and notified the Army bomb disposal unit. Specialists then extinguished the fire and removed the bomb from the scene by 9 p.m., before destroying it in a secure location.
Tung Yueh-lung, a military officer at the scene, as saying that the unexploded ordnance had been probably been exposed by recent heavy rains and the subsequent high temperatures may have caused the WWII weapon to ignite.
Tung said that ordnance was a white phosphorous bomb left over from WWII that was 90 centimeters in length and had a blast radius of 90 meters. The officer said that white phosphorous can spontaneously ignite when the ambient temperature reaches 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.
The bomb found in New Taipei was likely dropped by an American bomber during a massive raid launched on greater Taipei during WWII. The raid, known as the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on May 31, 1945 and was part of the largest allied air raid on Japanese-occupied Taipei (then known as Taihoku) during WWII.
The raid consisted of 117 Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers from the U.S. Fifth Air Force and lasted from 10 a.m. until around 1 p.m. During the air raid, American bombers dropped approximately 3,800 bombs on military units and government facilities, and despite efforts to avoid civilian casualties, some civilian facilities were mistakenly struck.
Over 3,000 died as a result of the massive bombing raid, more than all the casualties from the previous raids in Taiwan combined.
In the city I live right next to, two guys were cooking a WW2 hand grenade on a gas stove yesterday. They thought it was defused and harmless because the guy they bought it from said so.
Explosion knocked down a wall and damaged a gas line, but the firefighters managed to seal it in time. No fire, two light injuries, no fatalities. 108 people were evacuated from the apartment building but have since returned to their homes. Police found a very large collection of WW2 ordinance and weaponry in the apartment; the duo were making memorial items from them. Said collection is currently being examined by ordinance experts and bomb squads to make sure they really are defused.
The guy they bought the live grenade from has been arrested by a commando unit this morning, his house is being raided while the interrogation is underway.
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Wait, why would you put a grenade on a stove in the first place, disarmed or not?
Because eedjits gotta eedjit?
I have no idea. All the article said is that they were heating the grenade on the stove.
Sounds like straight out of a Darwin reward.
Look at that collection.
Wow. That's a good week of work to be totally sure. And, a further six solid weeks of piss-taking around the coffee machine.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Edited by TuefelHundenIV on Jun 23rd 2020 at 7:07:27 AM
Who watches the watchmen?
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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210330/p2a/00m/0na/032000c
Some WWII ordnance was found in Fukuoka early March. The JGSDF Camp Metabaru's EOD unit was brought in.
Edited by Ominae on Mar 30th 2021 at 11:04:15 AM
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Vice News has interviews with the HALO Trust doing IED defusing in Nagorno-Karabakh after the ceasefire was made.
Edited by Ominae on Apr 13th 2021 at 8:35:16 AM
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Bump after over a year, since the current war in Ukraine is naturally generating a flood of unexploded ordnance over there. Photo of ordnance collected from Hostomel:
Imma say, I'd be a little afraid of walking between this much munition.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Construction in northern Hungary found quite a cache in a backyard, all of it of WW2 German origin:
- 240 pieces of 75mm fragmentation and 30mm rifle grenades, weighing nearly 700 kilograms in total
- 25 kilograms of bomb debris
- 3 kilograms of gunpowder
It took EOD nearly two days to find it all with metal detectors. All of it's been shipped to the military's central storage for later disposal.
There's also the family of American tourists who just this week found an unexploded shell and decided to keep it as a souvenir. (D'oh!) And brought it with them to the airport. (D'oh!!!)
In Israel.
(Mind-boggling levels of "D'oh!!!"-ness.)
Not everybody knows that unexploded ordnance is a thing and a danger.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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https://taskandpurpose.com/history/japan-blowing-up-wwii-ordnance-okinawa/
Task and Purpose talks about the old WWII American ordnance being dug up by the JGSDF and disposed of.
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An anti-tank mine went off in Cheolwon, South Korea (near the DMZ), killing an excavator operator
According to witnesses, an excavator was doing repair work after flooding when an explosive, suspected to be an anti-tank mine, went off, killing the driver. Due to the explosion, there was a power outage in the surrounding area.
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Some chickenshit idiot in Hungary found two "bomb-like" rusted objects and brought them home with intent to sell them as scrap.
His aunt alerted the authorities, who determined that the objects were WW2-era Czech high-ex artillery rounds. Both were live and could've leveled the house if they had gone off.
A WW2-era 122mm Soviet artillery shell was unearthed in southern Hungary earlier this week. It was only a smoke shell and was missing a fuse, but EOD intervention was still needed due to its 4 kg white phosphorus payload that already begun smoking merely from being exposed to the air.
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Singaporean Army's called in to get rid of a WWII-era bomb found in a construction site that's suppose to be for a condo in Upper Bukit Timah. Residents and people who work there are advised to get out ASAP.
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Looks like that bomb in Bukit Timah was taken care of.
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German WW2 bomb leaves giant crater in field
“It was not immediately clear what caused a blast so powerful that it registered as a minor earthquake.
The blast, at 03:52 (01:52 GMT) on Sunday, startled residents near the central German town of Limburg, leaving a crater 10m (33ft) wide and four metres deep in a field.
A photo taken by a drone later revealed the impact of the night-time explosion. Initially police said "no definitive indication" had been found of a suspected unexploded bomb.
But, on close inspection of the corn field in Ahlbach, bomb disposal experts decided it was "with almost absolute certainty" a World War Two bomb. They believed it was a 250kg (550lb) bomb dropped by a plane.”
Edited by Bur on Jun 24th 2019 at 10:48:24 AM
i. hear. a. sound.