WWII bomb found in London

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British Army bomb disposal team is working carefully to dismantle a large unexploded World War Two bomb unearthed this week near the future Olympic Park in London, officials said Friday.

Contractors clearing a site in east London unearthed the 2,200-pound German bomb Monday, the Ministry of Defense said, and called in the army experts to make it safe. The bomb measures four feet by two feet and is the largest one found in the capital since 1975, defense officials said.

"It's enormous," said Simon Saunders, the spokesman for the British Army's London district.

Source: CNN news

mike65

Oh cool, nice big live explosion on Sky News later then!

Mike.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

That's mad that it hasn't been found until now.

Dave!

hah, sweet

robinph

Won't be the last one they find in the building works going on there I expect. There will probably be a few still left behind after all the buildings done, just depends on if they happen to need to dig a deep foundation for the stadium in the right spot or not.

Blisterman

Scary if you lived next door to it.
Apparently, the blast radius is hundreds of metres.

Sherifu

If you're Brazilian start running, clap your hands.

godtabh

Contractors over there have a PC sum for finding bombs on the olympic site.

Its very common.

Eoin

Sherifu wrote: »

If you're Brazilian start running, clap your hands.

I hate saying "lol", but that really did make me laugh out loud.

Capt'n Midnight

That's nothing, for many years there was a Grand Slam bomb at the gate of a UK air base before someone realised it wasn't a dummy.

bitemybanger

So thats where i left it:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Who do i ring to claim my bomb back?

Run_to_da_hills

If it went off could they still sue Germany

Creature

It's the terrorists. They're going back in time and planting bombs now.

kowloon

A couple of years back a bunch of dumped mines washed up on the beach along Gormanstown - Balbriggan.
Plenty of the stuff around, wonder if theres a statistic on deaths due to abandoned munitions to hand.

OPENROAD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7439249.stm

Degsy

When the hurricane struck britain in (i think) 1986 it blew over lots of trees that had to be cut up and removed.Apparantly the amount of shrapnel from the Blitz in the trees in london destroyed lots of chainsaws and nearly blinded several people.WW2 was no joke by all accounts.

Ross_Mahon

So there was no huge explosion?

Blisterman

If it did go off and kill someone, would they be considered to have died in World War II?