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Edward Cowling London UK wrote:

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Mizter T writes

A policeman on the local television news yesterday was stressing just
how potentially dangerous this bomb was, a

Are they though ? I understand that TFL must take public safety as
their first priority, but is a 60 year old bomb that's been in the mud
all that time a credible risk ?

A much greater risk than a brand new bomb. After 60 years the explosives have
parly decomposed and can be very unstable, even a slight knock could set the
thing off.


I think that trains stopped running and London City airport was
disrupted for a rusty canister full of harmless sludge !

You carry on thinking that. Tell you what, next one they find you can
volunteer to deal with it.


I'd love to know what the military really think about this.


The military think it is a very dangerous object. There are around a dozen
people killed every year by WW1 munitions dug up on the Western Front in
Northern France and Belgium and the sludge in those rusty canisters is 90
years old.

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