wtf? ?!?!?!?!? BOMB in Vienna?!?!?

[Peter Korsten]

Michael Zacherl schreef:

> They also mentiond it's the fifth time since the end of WW2 it  
> happened in Austria.
> So virtually nothing compared to the tons of landmines scattered over  
> the world.

Five? They still dig up easily five bombs every *year* in the 
Netherlands, usually American or British ones.

Not to mention, the poison gas grenades they still find from the First 
World War in northern France.

During the Battle of Messines (Belgium, WW1), the British placed 450 
*tonnes* of high explosives in 21 mines, and detonated 19 of them. The 
blast was heard as far as London and Dublin.

The 20th mine detonated in 1955, when it was hit by lightning. A cow was 
killed.

The 21st mine is still lying somewhere under the Belgian countryside...

- Peter