WWII Bomb Explodes at Czech Work Site

[Adonai]

A World War II-era bomb exploded Tuesday at a construction site in the southeastern Czech Republic. One worker was injured, officials said.

The 220-pound bomb was set off by an excavator in the outskirts of Znojmo near the Austrian border, police spokesman Jan Krepela said. The worker operating the machine suffered light injuries, Krepela said.

Unexploded bombs and ammunition from World War II are still unearthed from time to time in the area, Krepela said.

Taken from an ABC News source. Kinda scary stuff, my father told me bout going to school in hungary having to walk on the main road which had live mine fields on either side of the road that have not been removed.

[Elfie]

Kinda scary stuff, my father told me bout going to school in hungary having to walk on the main road which had live mine fields on either side of the road that have not been removed.

[DiabloTX]

Reminds me of a story on ex-gf told me.  She grew up in a old house in Santa Fe, Texas.  When they were moving in her dad went up into the attic to check for storage space.  Sitting by itself on the floor is what looked like a 500 lbs. WWII-vintage aerial bomb.  He freaked out and called the authorities and they in turn called out the bomb squard.  Turns out it was a practice bomb or some such dummy bomb that the previous owner had left up there and/or forgot about it.  She said her dad calmly told everyone to get out of the house, called the authorities and then promptly freaked out.

[Gh0stFT]

We have this sad kind of news allmost weekly here,

A total of 440,000 bombs were dropped on Berlin between 1942 and 1945. On average 5% of them failed to explode. That means that 22,000 duds were left buried beneath the rubble. They're still being uncovered on an almost weekly basis just in & around Berlin alone.

16.Mar.2004 two unexploded WWII bombs, were discovered underneath the building site of Munich's new football stadium, the Allianz Arena. 25 Kg of TNT each. They had to be detonated in a controlled explosion.

22.Mar.2005. It was in the Paul-Heyse-Strasse near the Hauptbahnhof (Munich). An M103 flying bomb. Still live. Neighbouring streets had to be closed while the bomb was defused.

6.Feb.2006 the S-Bahn line between Munich Hauptbahnhof and Pasing had to be closed for half an hour while an American "5-Zentner-Fliegerbombe" flying-bomb was made safe.

23.Oct.2006 Monday morning at a construction site on the Autobahn A3 close to Aschaffenburg. A construction machine was planing the road surface to a depth of approximately 30cm. The driver seems to have detonated the bomb, sustaining fatal injuries, destroying the machine and tearing a crater measuring several meters wide.

and so on even after 60 years, imagine that...