This shit doesn’t just go away once the fighting stops and Ukraine will still be struggling with a lot of the munitions used over its crop land in 2150.
Every time they open a construction site which require excavation in Munich they find a bomb
France: “thats cute”
Workers found one in a field outside my street a few years ago.
We all had to evacuate as the Army dealt with it. They didn’t bother to defuse it – just blew it up. Not worth risking peoples lives to save a field from having a hole in it.
On a Romanian metal detecting FB group there was a guy who showed photos of the 3 tons of unexploded WWII ammo he found in a forest (he called the authorities to take them over).
I guess it’s a dangerous hobby, but so is paragliding and skiing off-piste.
I think in germany we will have still some 200 years of work to do
In belgium we still find bombs from WW I, what is so special about italy?
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Tldr, is it because a lot of bombs were dropped and it’s a lot of work, or Italy just couldn’t be bothered in the years after?
104 years after the end of WW1, France still has unexploded munitions in the areas where the frontline mostly stayed
Every country fought over in WW1 and/or WW2 is still clearing up unexploded munitions.
Not just Italy, unexploded ordnance from the world war(s) are a fairly common find in much of Europe.
Yeah that’s something we at least don’t have in Turkey.
France has large zones which are still off limits after World War 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
This shit doesn’t just go away once the fighting stops and Ukraine will still be struggling with a lot of the munitions used over its crop land in 2150.
Every time they open a construction site which require excavation in Munich they find a bomb
France: “thats cute”
Workers found one in a field outside my street a few years ago.
We all had to evacuate as the Army dealt with it. They didn’t bother to defuse it – just blew it up. Not worth risking peoples lives to save a field from having a hole in it.
On a Romanian metal detecting FB group there was a guy who showed photos of the 3 tons of unexploded WWII ammo he found in a forest (he called the authorities to take them over).
I guess it’s a dangerous hobby, but so is paragliding and skiing off-piste.
I think in germany we will have still some 200 years of work to do
In belgium we still find bombs from WW I, what is so special about italy?