School's WWII bomb polished off
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/4806036.stm

Heck :huh:

Okay kids, that is a bomb, B-O-M-B. Dont touch it, we were too ignorant and lazy to defuse it, so it can blow up any day now.

How something like this even can happen!? :stare:

You remained speechless there eh!

Why a bomb at school anyway, museum and historic military display area are there for that.

:nope:
I second that…

Unrelated picture…but funny
http://www.nettouring.com/images/Public/clean_bomb.png

What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.

How can we take you seriously when you wear a pink hat. :huh:

Now there is an accident waiting to happen. It wouldn't suprise me at all if it went off and flattened the entire school and anyone in it. The one certainly in life, is that stupidity like this is almost always rewarded. :yep:

Nice to hear it did not happen.

Proof of certain reliability from the device… at least that one… :D

:shifty: :hmm: yes

Eather that or the detonator was bad! :lol:

You had to insert a low shot eh!... :nope: ... :lol:

I wonder what their definition of "live" is. One might consider the presence of explosives in the bomb even with the detonator removed to be live nowadays although it probably wouldn't have been back then.

Well, some old explosives can degrade in dangerous ways. If it contained picric acid for example, then a reaction with the metal in the bomb could produce dangerously sensitive picric acid salts. The picric acid itself it pretty safe (explosive, but not sensitive enough to explode from normal falls etc.) but an explosion of the salts could set off the main charge. With stable explosives it would be safe.

Reminds of this time at school.

This kid had found a WWII hand grenade in his garden at the weekend. Anyway shows his dad who did nothing, so he keeps it and polishes it. On Monday he brings a live grenade 45 years old too, in to school, on the bus with 50 other kids. Then he and his mate play "bounce the grenade" off the wall..... :doh: :doh:

Apparently the pin broke but jammed. Takes teh thing to class and shows the teacher.

End result, we got a day off school, he got his head seriously kicked in.

See that wouldn’t have happen in my school, we got training in small arms and anti-personnel weapons at a very early age. :D