Massive Explosion From 80-Year-Old WWII Bomb Shown by Drone

New footage from the Devon and Cornwall Police Drone Team showed the size of the explosion from a recently-discovered World War II bomb. The one-ton device was found the day before by builders in the city of Exeter, in southwestern England. An evacuation was ordered around Exeter’s city center, as bomb disposal teams worked to secure the old munition. A day later, the device was detonated, throwing debris and leaving a massive crater. #InsideEdition

[@GreySchezwan]

These gender reveal parties getting out of hand.

[@snickernoodles7268]

Lol

[@desktoleaf6042]

This comment was too good 🤣🤣

[@dk6173]

😂

[@Arcad1010]

😂

[@waffleratta2861]

It's a german bomb! Congratulations! 👏

[@username3788]

"found by builders" my dumbass would look at it and say, "huh thats a funny lookin rock" *kick kick*

[@zeultimo]

U forgot the BOOOOM part

[@maxeeboi1300]

Kaboom

[@lemonlimethewolf7087]

Omg u made me crack up lol

[@lrl_ysatg5317]

Same tho

[@katelynnmcdonough4806]

Honestly same lmao

[@danboyisdopex9864]

This is like a time machine the closest we'd ever get to feeling how WW2 was when watching bombs dropping down the city.

[@Shrek_Smith]

Fr

[@user-jn8sj9ow3k]

Get ready man war is just beginning

[@Igniting-Moments]

so true

[@SourRabbit8142]

I feel the same way, though it’s a shame to blow up such an ancient artifact from a significant part of human history. I feel like it may be worth the effort to deactivate it with a remote controlled robot and put it in a museum or some other storage.

[@jonathanorendain9605]

And they at times, drops like more than a thousand of them if the same place, wtf

[@nathantw]

This was just ONE 2000 pound bomb. Could you imagine what it was like when literally hundreds of those were exploding all around, especially near factories?

[@I_P3D]

That 98-year old German: *Why did I just receive a UAV just now?*

[@sweetietea1460]

lol

[@sadcat4230]

xxgermanxx97 is on a 20 kill streak

[@rxihan]

Lol call of duty irl

[@happymeal5914]

@@sadcat4230 xXgamergerman42069360BeastXx

[@Endo240]

@@happymeal5914 no stop

[@saucygod5583]

When you accidently put 80 years on the timer instead of 80 seconds

[@kypexYBA]

😂😂

[@zejdland]

Change it to minutes and we ok

[@michealjackson1181]

@@zejdland nope that’ll mess up the joke your okay with but not us

[@zejdland]

@@michealjackson1181 how ?? If the bomb was set to 80 seconds it would have exploded in the air.. while changing it to the 80 minutes it gives the joke some more realism while not taking from the funny part..

[@so7cialism]

Underrated comment LMAO.

[@___chief866]

To hear the sounds of a war of 80 years ago that day had to have been crazy.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Imagine being a stray cat that didn't get the memo.

[@nairbvel]

Back in the 1980s, my family visited the Normandy battlefields, where many of the shell craters have been planted with brambles & such to keep people out of them. Just a week after we went traipsing along the bunkers & beaches, a young boy following his father's tractor plowing a field near one of the beaches was killed when the plow accidentally detonated an old hand grenade that had been buried since the D-Day landings.

[@Classickoolcars]

😱😪😪😪

[@119jle]

And they all died

[@marid.2874]

I visited a small island in Brittany a few years back. A nice old couple my family was acquainted with gave us a tour of the island. There was one tiny creek they obviously felt awkward about. They told us that, a few years back, a group of teenagers had made a bonfire on the beach and had accidentally detonated a WW2 bomb. Several of them died.

[@jewishbanana7055]

My grandpa grew up in Poland on a farm in a small village and his best friend was 2 years older then him, they grew up together since babies. When my grandpa was 10 and his best friend that was like his brother was 12, they were playing tag in the forest. While my grandpa reached out to tag him, his friend stepped on an old ww2 mine and exploded in front of my grandpa, my grandpa lost a finger and 2 toes with it. He watched his friends top torso part of the corpse with the head attached just fall on the ground as it rained his blood and guts.

[@StrawHatTony420]

​@@jewishbanana7055how did your grandpa survive if he was close enough to potentially tag him?

[@patriotatuga5757]

90 year old German in the wheelchair receiving 200xp for a kill: Wtf happened

[@Dksjens]

Underrated comment

[@purrformance]

I think I get it.

[@iosnab187]

Bro was laggy

[@Ulva0]

So the guy was 10 years old when he planted the bomb?

[@patriotatuga5757]

@@Ulva0 yup

[@Frenite]

Imagine all those bombs that haven’t even been found yet...

[@marlinanenomeposeidonthdar4677]

And the one atomic bomb that they never retrieved or found after a plane carrying them crashed and dropped 3

[@cybercat29]

@@marlinanenomeposeidonthdar4677 Is that the one off the West Coast of Canada? 😨😰😱

[@jackkraken3888]

I would probably be more worried about land mines. They still people to this day.

[@marlinanenomeposeidonthdar4677]

cybercat29 yes Goldsboro, North Carolina

[@canismajor8601]

Sweet home alabama Oh wait wrong comment

[@HolySaintDavid]

now only imagine being in 1940 and seeing hundreds of these being set off

[@johnbell9069]

I'm 63 and as a boy there was a series on tv in the 60s here in the UK called " Danger! UXB " which stood for Danger Unexploded Bomb and even here in Cornwall it was still common to hear about sea mines being washed up on Cornish beaches or bombs being dug up by farmers, I can't recall any fatalities though. The series was set in London, London being the most bombed city in the war and portrayed an elite group of bomb disposal experts defusing bombs which still littered the country. It was in b/w and very tense with a great storyline.

[@brake_4_cake]

It was filmed in 1979 and was in colour

[@HanstheBoss1]

90 years old be like”I TOLD YOU THE WAR ISN’T OVER” 100 years old be like "Sits down junior and lemme tell you when i was in the army"

[@macbookpro16inch82]

Lol

[@Coolman-qv3bg]

I was 300th like

[@marielawrence468]

XD

[@sanlorenzo7896]

So much for being last online 90 years ago XD

[@t-bone971]

"THAT GOD DAMN WAR AINT OVA, ITS DEM MUDAFUKIN COMMIES"

[@garryjohnson6794]

The bomb be like " i'm maybe old,but still kicking yoo..".

[@hans2479]

People often forget that obsolete weapons doesn't mean it can't kill you...

[@firstlast9731]

as-

[@zeavg]

@@hans2479 exactly, rusty knife vs normal knife. who do you think would win?

[@liemduongthanh8386]

@@zeavg the rusty knife has a chance to add a plague debuff

[@carlycrays2831]

I really was not expecting it to do that

[@linkspokemon4114]

Bomb: *explodes* Old man: Honey there back, get cover!!!

[@sebisonic]

Amazing how the consequences of WWII still affect us today in a direct manner

[@mikevids8107]

Some 100 year old German: “Why did I just get a pop up in my kill feed?”

[@sadyboi2533]

Lmfaooo

[@SC_2QUICK]

😂😂😂

[@adikhan4166]

Not to be that guy but he would have to be 100 since if it was dropped 80 years ago and he is 90 now he would have been 10 when he dropped the bomb

[@shanazyy]

Its just a joke 👁👄👁

[@adikhan4166]

@@shanazyy ik but I think its funnier to think that a ten year old was in WW2 dropping bombs

[@dagoatedbot]

I can't imagine moving one of those bombs, that would be terrifying

[@mxriolow]

llj

[@DavagonD]

you cant move them they’ll just blow up

[@value2887]

@@mxriolow long live jaseh?

[@Great_Lakes_Discus]

Why would anyone move one

[@prihaps]

You can’t move them. Thats why its a controlled detonation.

[@midnightmusings8144]

what a lot of people don't understand is, that there is still a lot of those around. In big cities. They keep finding them during construction.

[@DaniMacYo]

This is terrifying and exciting at the same time. Kinda gives us a modern day view of what these things were like in action. Can’t imagine the hell the soldiers and civilians experienced when these massive explosives were raining down on them.

[@abidoyekehinde457]

Intense

[@cashmoney3671]

check out the verdun shell shock victims. that’ll give you an idea

[@orangesel9338]

most of the bombing was concentrated around industrial and military areas, only a fraction was targeted at civilian centers to demoralize the country. imagine if all of it was focused on civilian centers.

[@orangesel9338]

@@BillionsWillDie those weren't primarily targeting civilian centers, if you want to talk about bombings that did mention the firebombings of tokyo instead mr. wehraboo

[@watkinsrory]

I was in a few mortar attacks when I was a kid, and what you just said is exactly what it's like exhilarating yet terrifying at the same time.

[@thunderlight6855]

The 90 something year old German: Diese Bombe kommt mir bekannt vor

[@sonjyson5614]

Hey bro what software did you use to put the "42" in the circle?

[@kimransodhi5620]

@@sonjyson5614 it’s an app called fonts it has a white background and black writing..... and you can type stuff like this ♏︎♌︎♊︎♎︎♌︎♎︎ 𝙹𝚍𝚓𝚗𝚍𝚓𝚍 ℍ𝕕𝕛𝕟𝕕𝕛𝕕 Hᴅɴᴅᴊᴅʙʙᴅɴᴅ ᒍᗪᑌᑎᗪᘜᗪᑎ ⒷⒿⒹⒷⒽ④②

[@foxtrotout6115]

Pls translate.

[@jezrielbaquir3237]

Translate?

[@cupcakelovescak7886]

"This bomb looks familiar to me." (Sorry if it's wrong. I'm not German, I just used Google Translate.)

[@rise_celts]

ERIKA INTENSFIES

[@rxihan]

Lol

[@aetherrzx]

Saw this on the original vid

[@asdaf967]

Same

[@aetherrzx]

In fact, it's the top comment

[@pubs6506]

You literally just copied (word-for-word) the most liked comment in the previous video covering this event

[@chrisallen7512]

Imagine being out there as a soldier hearing that thing go off before you go into battle….oh my God

[@cookiesandsoda3439]

Imagine tons of those detonating around you constantly, shots flying all around you... ww2 must have been hell

[@stevespooky9894]

cookiesandsoda----exactly-and we got snowflakes and millennials wingeing about not being able to toast themselves on a beach for 12 months-try waiting over 72 months, the 6 yrs of world war 2

[@lowkeyhighkey8192]

thats what i was thinking

[@teamjacob2388]

@@stevespooky9894 millennials r in the military too Steve.

[@user-sn7xr3lx3h]

Hey would anyone is the right mind want to imagine that

[@stayinganonymous.3172]

​@@stevespooky9894 old man Steve still.complaining about millenials... You're pathetic, Steve.

[@humanlettuce7422]

Some random grandpa: Serious flashbacks to WWII

[@rxihan]

Lol ptsd entered the chat

[@JustAbinashboruah]

I ve heard this so many times

[@alicemedalley4400]

My grandma lives here, she saw the bomb blow up and she lived there her whole life, when she was a teen the war happened and she said it felt like she went back in time

[@cleofasregules7994]

Imagine 100 of those falling from the sky bro, crazy to see how deadly WW2 was military wise

[@titortinhas228]

Even 80 years after the WW1/2 still affects the world, now imagine today's War, WW3 how many years will it take for us to recover from this.

[@spiderpunkz8825]

100 year old German: *Still pushing back enemy lines, victory will be assured”

[@sarveshnianr]

yess trueee

[@swagyolo413]

Imagine surviving like 30 of those in relatively close proximity, coming home and then being screamed at because you’re considered a terrible degenerate sinner and criminal just for serving

[@2009theguitar]

That teaches us something “history is never over”.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Oh man, war lingers for centuries and generations...

[@stoner4life765]

That profile pic makes me to believe you slap like a girl hahahahah

[@mlgwolftrix4708]

@@stoner4life765 says the guy with a stuffed animal as a pfp smh

[@bababooey6521]

@@mlgwolftrix4708 says the guy with an anime profile pic

[@ryanlarbi8157]

@Man Man says the guy with the overused doge meme pic

[@InternetMouse]

@@ryanlarbi8157 I already know what my roast is going to be.

[@rosstrovato9535]

I always find it amazing that these things still remain "live" after so many years. You'd think that the combination of time and the elements would eventually render them harmless, but obviously, they were built pretty darned well.

[@sebjoeko]

As long as the bomb remains 'watertight' (almost always the case), the explosive charge will remain unchanged. The PROBLEM is always with the fuse. They had a complex 'delay' mechanism - usually only a few minutes. In the case of these 'duds', there's just no way of knowing why the fuse failed. Any movement of the bomb (and therefore the fuse) could set it off - so they must be detonated 'in-place'.

[@user-tr2dh4xx6u]

Some explosives get even more dangerous after time. To the point they become unstable and can be set off by the smallest impact or spark

[@Foxracing401]

If they were built well they would have exploded on contact during ww2 lol

[@lightninggaming016]

​@@Foxracing401 or just delayed the timer or whatever

[@nat0106951]

@@Foxracing401 this the fact here 😂

[@Litfilmz]

If you’ve played war games this gives a good idea of how big the bombs being used in real life actually were. This was just a regular old bomb not rocket or missile

[@terrancenorris9992]

While using my metal detector in Ukraine in 2008, I found an unexploded artillery round that was not quite covered by an inch of soil. Marked it with a marker flag and gave the info to a policeman friend. They took care of it. I've found many safer interesting things while detecting..

[@Kerithanos]

Can't believe Putin's using time travel artillery to attack the Ukraine in the past smh

[@Tuxfanturnip]

now there will be many more in the same soil for the next hundred years...

[@mariadelacruz1153]

Its unbelievable that bombs stays 'alive' even after centuries, scary to think ur toilet must be above a buried bomb.

[@wigglyworm6645]

that's not how it works...

[@fdangleshadang-a-lang7149]

I don’t know about no bombs under my toilet, but I do know I drop bombs of my own in the toilet

[@zeroday7878]

it was detonated by a bomb squad i think, so it probably wouldnt have gone off on its own undisturbed

[@wigglyworm6645]

@@zeroday7878 it was at a building site tho

[@noormounir3994]

@@fdangleshadang-a-lang7149 😂😅

[@mr.meeseeks6549]

Imagine all the innocent ants just minding their own business, and then this thing explodes on them.

[@pinina8558]

Sad day for ant nation

[@ItsMillerr]

Lmfao

[@anti-social6368]

Don’t forget a lot of Uncles.

[@Asr.-]

antscanada moment

[@KeepItReal2024]

RIP to the dead lil homies

[@violentdreams96]

That's pretty scary, having a random bomb under your shoes without knowing.

[@christopherbean6802]

Imagine dropping a bomb from a plane thousands of feet into the sky and not having it explode until years after you pass away.

[@Automaton1199]

Didn’t anyone call for apocalypse bingo part two

[@CherryBlossomBlyue]

Nope

[@skyj2172]

Me

[@RTMonitor]

man behind the slaughter

[@zevraluna1899]

Nah, you see, it would only count if the bomb had been accidentally detonated by the builders. No one got hurt and it was scary but very minimal damage. So yeah, I dont think this is bad enough to count

[@genericfilmmaker6339]

Literally nothing we've seen has been apocalyptic

[@peridotasadeadbritishmonar7924]

Honestly this has just really put into perspective how terrifying experiencing an air raid would be.

[@hunormagyar1843]

Ikr

[@giraffesushi8112]

Imagine and underground raid

[@muhammadaulia6427]

Just hearing the sirene already giving them ptsd for sure

[@katherine2000cl]

My thoughts exactly. I, weirdly, had no idea how massive the bombs they dropped were. I knew they would blow up buildings and such but the sheer scale of that one - especially since it is not nuclear - is shocking!

[@berserkerkev_666]

Burn burn Rage of the heavens Burn burn Death from above Die die Merciless killing Burn burn Death from above. Firestorm - Sabaton.

[@AIuzky]

From time to time, homes explode because of bombs under the home that randomly explodes.

[@firstlast9813]

If that was an old bomb, imagine what kind of bombs have been designed now.

[@RFC3514]

That was mostly modern explosives being used to destroy the old bomb in a controlled way.

[@molester5917]

Imagine it’s your first day at a construction site & you drill into this accidentally

[@DateMasamune1636]

Kaboom

[@anjumanshaikh8301]

Nice pfp

[@NOMORTARS]

Unlucky

[@legend528]

It is also your last day

[@saiyanarmy2884]

Moe you good?

[@jennatolls904]

*the dead soldiers who dropped the bomb in the after life* “yo, the bomb we dropped back in the 40’s just blew up”

[@jennatolls904]

@Mr Happy Folger it’s like they’re saying it took forever to blow up lol

[@angeloventura1890]

@@jennatolls904 😂😂😂

[@kingxray8719]

They probably got XP for it

[@moyoos843]

that is indeed what happened

[@yorgborg7899]

“Yo, why did I just get a Hit Marker?

[@andrewrivera190]

The crazy thing is dozens of these were dropped on cities during WW2. We just witnessed what one can do. Now imagine 24 bombers full.

[@martian3139]

My grandfather was digging on our property in spain and he hit a mortar that was buried deep in the ground. It detonated but he survived at the cost of his hearing.

[@karolykrausz5534]

I have to admit my tears came out a bit because this footage reminded me when my homecity in Hungary was carpet-bombed in 1944 with hundreds of 300 KG bombs.

[@Joeyblondewolf2]

They said go outside and take a walk they said... It wont kill you they said.

[@facethegamegt1656]

That’s crazy. 80 years ago bombs were that strong... imagine how much damage a modern day bomb would do...

[@davidfrancisco3236]

Imagine them falling like rain during that time.😬😬😬😬

[@JW-1089]

A whole state GONE in seconds

[@JupiterKnight]

i got hiroshima vibes from this comment 😳

[@JupiterKnight]

@Anonymous dude oh kay eand yeahs

[@lordgrey3749]

@Anonymous dude MOAB blast radius is 150 meters (492 ft) not a mile

[@subbywan1422]

Man, can you imagine having to live with those things falling daily for hours at a time??

[@atomikcosmonaut522]

*THE SHELLING STOPS WHEN MORALE IMPROVES*

[@elliastaye2799]

"Nothing wrong here, just a big potato"

[@rhproductions4932]

That is SERIOUSLY what I thought at first before I read the title😂

[@The_Stumbler]

The harvest!!!! Nooooooooo

[@mrlokedejavu9613]

94 years old German pilot: GOTTEM

[@roguestarr4382]

@Louis Ed Nacion damn lag.

[@MinionKain]

The number of windows you can see shattering, and random things falling around. What a nightmare for infrastructure.

[@hansweissmann_xviii6754]

Two observations: 1) the bomb was spot on; 2) the manufacturer did a great job as it still works……

[@RFC3514]

a) If the manufacturer had done a great job, it would have exploded when it was dropped; b) most of what you see here is modern explosives being used to destroy the bomb in a controlled way.

[@mybusylife2158]

Our whole village was evacuated a little over a year ago, because they found an old bomb while preparing a building site. Was the most action our little village has seen in years 😅

[@oAgL214]

🙊🤣 you're funny!

[@zamas9828]

Which country is the village in?

[@mybusylife2158]

@@zamas9828 Germany

[@zamas9828]

@@mybusylife2158 nice, you should try metal detecting around the area and you could find cool stuff if it was a battleground in WW2

[@karamellcreme]

@@zamas9828 Pretty much everywhere in Germany was a battleground back then. Yeah, there were more active parts than others, but generally everywhere in Europe was a battleground.

[@9razzler9]

80year old bomb that still works? damn, that's quality german engineering.

[@Varddenfell]

any bomb can drop and rarely work but it's still active

[@srs6461]

The bomb didn’t detonate when it was supposed to.

[@shekhar81]

@@srs6461 right sir , but it can detonate whenever it wants to and it's More dangerous

[@srs6461]

@@shekhar81 My point was the quality of the bomb wasn’t very high if it didn’t detonate when intended.

[@Zg_baNdz]

If it was quality engineering it wouldn't have been there 80 years later lmao

[@alias13373]

Bomb findings still happen regulary in Germany. This year alone they've found already two bombs in my city but luckily every time they can defocus it safely.

[@styldsteel1]

Imagine the enemy dropping hundreds of these things on your city day and night for years?

[@nickjoy4584]

Nobody: That one friend with 999+ ping:

[@Zg_baNdz]

Pretty good comment...underrated

[@alexandrearaujo2877]

Keep in mind that these bombs date back to World War One and World War Two Eras and they were already this powerful. It comes to prove that the destruction a Third World War would cause would truly be something beyond our imagination.

[@stevek343]

Shut up!

[@disgustedgordonramsay205]

@@stevek343 *They hated him for saying the truth*

[@typicalgamer4life_199]

@@stevek343 There's literally no need to be a dick if he's speaking facts xD.

[@grt1679]

@@stevek343 crappy meme response is crappy

[@kl1970]

Dont worry ww3 would be over within a week...

[@sqrd3536]

The fact that they have lasted this long baffles the mind. Thank goodness for metal detectors.

[@Charliee_Woofy_Pz]

The lag must have been very serious

[@jrmc530]

I can only imagine how many windows needed to be replaced after that

[@vonRubbentroph]

Damn the budget 😩

[@juicypears5466]

And imagine how many pieces of those glass you need to clean.

[@Beantastrophe]

Bet they didn't even evacuate people in the surrounding area. They just went for it then met the lads at the pub for gin and tonic.

[@joshoduwole]

The WW2 veterans living there hearing the bomb: **crying noises**

[@erolozpalas4576]

Flashback to the war

[@rxihan]

Ptsd entered the chat

[@Xplzk1]

@@rxihan oh no

[@lillyrose4945]

Is WWII the one in 1941-1945? If so, that was also part of the Holocaust. I think 🤔😬

[@skittlekittle905]

@@lillyrose4945 correct I think.

[@citroniron8861]

We regularly have evacuations throughout the year in Cologne in Germany due to bombs being found on construction sites. Half of our University Hospital had to be evacuated a few years back.

[@MyCatInABox]

Damn...that explosion totally rocked this area. That apmt. building on the right had all the window latches jarred loose, and every single window was knocked open from the shockwave.

[@skyzaddiescult7439]

my mum used to live on a farm in Slovenia, they had a ww2 bomb there but everyone thought it was in active. every time my mum went past it she used to hit it. experts had a closer look and found out it wasn’t inactive and that it was just a bit dormant. everytime she hit it, it had a slight chance of exploding

[@TheSonOfDumb]

That's funny

[@eggrollsoup]

That’s just asking to die, you almost got removed from the gene pool

[@SharkFishSF]

This must be a probability distribution question in universities.

[@planemain6381]

All of the sudden, no more this comment lol.

[@strix3688]

I feel anxious...

[@HOWCANIMISSYOU]

Just imagine listening to that hundred and thousand of time everyday.

[@honorableundead2273]

All these years later and they still show us just how deadly they were and to think squadrons of bombers would drop hundreds of these over a city

[@chlorophyll6154]

Wow I can't imagine how 80 years ago this kind of things rain from the sky

[@alaan_taalam]

Nothing more than nice fireworks compared to the modern conventional bombs. Update: thanks for 1k+ likes guys & gals 🙏❤️

[@chaqz4076]

Hi

[@dasuku1775]

Fa q

[@JoaoVitor-vj9kk]

Hi

[@alexy.9306]

Helo

[@jonathanday4553]

Ironically you're the comment most aligned to my feelings on this video. That was a huge bomb and not an exceptionally large blast.

[@sanlorenzo7896]

Keep in mind, that’s just one bomb. Imagine like a dozen or even hundreds being dropped during war time. Truly devastating.

[@prigadiri]

omg

[@RFC3514]

That's one bomb surrounded by a lot of modern explosives.

[@protonjones54]

"The construction crew was then immediately arrested for being found in possession of high explosives."

[@naruto12270]

One bomb is scary enough but imagine how traumatizing it must be to hear multiple of these bombs go off during the actual world war events.

[@Sioux-periorGaming]

That's just 1 guys. Imagine the terror of having hundreds falling at once, thousands even throughout the months and years. I couldn't begin to comprehend what's available now days.

[@kayla6701]

Kinda copied

[@The_Endless_Summer]

Ask someone from Yemen.

[@seramuse888]

"Oh cool, maybe it's a time capsule, let's try to open it!"

[@migz_8894]

Thats a huge blast for one bomb..can't imagine many of them falling and hearing that constantly. Insane

[@blackcat8104]

And now we know a small portion of the sound of WWII. It was sort of a....destructive time capsule. I think that's really cool. Dangerous and scary, but amazing.

[@cattysplat]

Bang.

[@kelsmhm]

That one grandpa: I TOLD YOU THE GERMANS WOULD COME BACK FOR US, PASS ME MY RIFLE-

[@chadhosmer9357]

Evacuate the city center? The bombardier that dropped that one was on target! Glad no one was hurt.

[@YYCUrban]

To this day, that bomb was really impressive. I couldn't imagine an air raid with more

[@RFC3514]

Most of what you see there is the modern explosives being used to destroy the bomb.

[@keatondauffing1166]

My grandfather grew up in WWII Germany. He used to ditch school and find unexploded bombs and set them off in the woods... 😂😂😂 It’s a wonder he’s alive!!! 🤣 (He’s 91 now... Almost 92!!!)

[@fotticelli]

We did that too in the 60s. I grew up in Poland in an area that had active resistance movement. I knew of several bombs and mortar shells in the forest within a kilometer from where I lived. My father dug up a crate of mortar shells in our back yard when he started digging a hole to plant a row of jasmine bushes in a place that was just grass. The nearby saw mill had to stop several times a week because shrapnel embedded in tree logs would strip break the saw blades.

[@cyb8490]

Real

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Really? How can kids pick up 500 or 1000 pound bombs and " set them off " in the woods ? Lol😂

[@fotticelli]

@@reynaldoflores4522 We were very strong. That's one reason. Two: the bombs were made in kilograms so they were half as heavy. A 1000 pound bomb weighed only 500 kilograms.

[@A.V.AConstructionandSupplies]

@@fotticelli you must be big and muscular to lift that weight 😮

[@shaquezr.9541]

The German guy who was visiting: that ain’t on me **gets on plane**

[@Scooter227]

random old man at the retirement home: +100xp

[@jaredharris1970]

I can see someone back then setting one of those bombs to go off on a random date and time like they purposely set it to go off in 80 years

[@greeneyesfromohio4103]

Imagine an old WW2 vet nearby who’s dealt with PTSD his whole life and this happens!

[@orangesel9338]

they'd be out at a garrison or outside of the country fighting lol, they'd be facing smaller but more effective and accurate explosives. a large explosion would not phase them as much as mortar, artillery, or smaller cas bombs would.

[@nightsoffist6871]

Imagine you’re just sitting in your backyard and you feel rumble under your feet and then your whole backyard explodes.

[@TheRichard714]

When the past merges into the present. That is terrifying

[@AISHitis235]

That thing just Recreated the war moment, and showed new generation how it would have been in war time.

[@GuyWithAEpicHat]

*Some resident who didn’t hear the evaluation notice* 0:01 “Ah... what a beautiful da-“

[@warboynick]

90 year old German: “ohhhh so that’s where it landed!”

[@Thai8521]

He would have been 10 when he dropped the bomb XD 98 should fix it

[@_EllieLOL_]

@@Thai8521 Volksturm moment

[@orangesel9338]

missed the target by 1 km! incredible heavy bomber accuracy!

[@K.M.1985]

Bomb stays live for 3 generations, yet my smartphone battery dies after 6 months.

[@mattg1611]

This is what those KZbinrs be pulling out of rivers with magnets💀

[@alliej2312]

I live in Exeter and this was amazing to watch and I was able to hear it from my house, The damage it done despite putting loads of bags of sand over it it shattered windows and cracked walls in nearby houses.. and I was totally shocked at the hole it left behind 😳

[@davhot4107]

Play a song after it 😎😎

[@janbadinski7126]

A reminder of how it was during the war.

[@ragetobe]

It wasn’t nearly as bad as Allie describes it, I think there is a bit of drama fed into that. Note: I’m also fro the area.

[@jake9854]

but girls love detonating these bombs

[@XTraqd]

​@@ragetobeNope, that's how I remember it. "Controlled" explosion seemed to be a generous description.

[@itsjiminsnonexistentjams1221]

I’m sorry but imagine being one of those soldiers and you just hear that same bomb again-💀

[@whyparkjiminnotridejimin]

Yes that must be so scary but most soldiers already died.

[@RufusEatsCheese]

Would be quite a shock at 97 years old!

[@rw0dyxer012]

Imagine a plane dropping a dozen of those. That explosion is huge for just one bomb.

[@thecelt471]

While serving in the Navy we came across hundreds of unexploded ordinance in Okinawa, Japan. A friend of mine was killed by one that was built before he was born, very creepy.

[@Vi-kk5xr]

Imagine how traumatizing this must have been for someone with ptsd that lives near this. Hope they’re okay

[@caius3936]

That one 90 year old german bomber: Tf why did i just receive 100 exp

[@fzafg]

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[@drip4304]

so he was 10 years old when he planted the bomb

[@derkaiser9279]

@@drip4304 you don't need to be technical

[@emz4590]

@@drip4304 he was