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An unexploded WWII bomb was recently found at an airport in Berlin:Old WWII bomb shuts down Berlin's Tegel airportIt included this tidbit about the dangerous nature of these bombs:
In 1994, three construction workers were killed and eight bystanders injured when an unexpected bomb detonated, tearing through nearby buildings and cars in Berlin. In 2006, a road worker was killed near Frankfurt when his excavator hit a bomb.
They find UXO's (Unexploded Ordnance) all the time during construction in Germany. Just about every city has an EOD team dedicated to defusing left-overs, the biggere towns have 2 or 3 such teams.
Same about demining WWI shells in Flanders, especially around Ypres: farmers just leave those UXO nearby the road for the minesweepers to pick it away.Few years ago, these bombs were dropped in the Bay of Biscay, now there is a specific plant destroying it.http://www.wo1.be/ned/evenementen/erbij/2005/november/poelkapelle1911/body1.htm (If you want some genuine WWI photos) [attachment deleted by admin]
