Remember when you used to hear about this all the time on the news?
When I was a kid, you often would hear about a WW2 bomb found when someone was building something in Europe.
At first I envisioned the EOD guys under water right next to the thing when it went off. You'd be lucky to find
anything from them if that'd happened. So glad I was wrong about that!
junkman9096 wrote:
Impressive that the explosive remained viable after all these years.
Explosives generally get more unstable over the time and they
always will still go bang.
There's a Belgian EOD unit at Ypres that to this day disposes of WW1 artillery round found by farmers who have plowing the same fields for a century since the war. There are stacks of rusted projectiles found in the ditches with signs in many languages warning tourists to NOT touch them. The locals will stack them into the ditches and call the unit when the stack is high enough. A local farmer in 1988 told me that it's illegal to dig with mechanical means in certain parts of the town due to how many rounds are in the ground there. They shelled the place almost nonstop for 4 years.
One of my instructors at Aberdeen proving Grounds was an EOD guy, the one who went into the airplane tat crashed into the white house in 1994. He told me he responded to a scene where three guy out hunting in Maryland found a large cannonball, rolled it over to their campfire and one guy used it as a seat. One of the guys went to go get something from the truck and then
BOOM. Nothing but a crater. It was a Civil War naval round, they determined from what little pieces they found later.
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Still impressive. 
