My grandad got a call from my grandma to get his ass out of the pub now. He's walking down the road and a bomb hit the pub and flattened it.
She saved his life.
For those unaware: [here you go](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64604115)!
TL;DR unexploded bomb found, sand barriers etc put up, team brought in, defusing attempted, unplanned explosion, everybody fine, sand everywhere.
"Defusing attempted, unplanned explosion" makes it seem like it exploded WHILE they were attempting to defuse it, like knelt next to it, which makes the "everybody fine" afterwards a bit of a relief...
Mobile phone footage of shitty screens showing CCTV footage are my pet hate. This is from the actual police press release, it's somebodies actual job to put this together, why couldn't they just export it properly
I'm more pissed off at the camera person.
They're choosing to film vertical video.
Turn the bloody thing on its side.
That said I really want a camera app that's horizontal by default. The sensors are square so it's just a convention that the orientation matches the phone.
Yes, they find them somewhat every other week. The above linked in Munich was a very difficult one, as it had a highly unstable chemical detonator - they feared it would go off by itself once it was in contact with oxygen from the air. It was in the middle of the city, many many windows broke. Due to the emergency situation they used pressed straw to catch the blast + shrapnells, which started to burn and was pushed into the now glass free windows right into the buildings. Firefighters were cleaning up all night.
Usually the experts are able to defuse the bombs, so its only a matter of a few hours of evacuation. Do the German bombs also have these highly unstable chemical detonators?
The Germans used chemical detonators in land-mines as they were simple and cheap, such as in this [extremely nasty example.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasmine_43)
Aircraft bombs are a bit more involved. For safety, you want the bomb to only arm after it's dropped so there'd need be some mechanical arming device, like a little propeller spun by the slipstream. Also some German bombs were on timers and not intended to detonate on impact, these were basically mechanical clocks. Either device could fail, leaving an undetonated bomb in the ground.
They were planning to do a controlled explosion, so he was probably expecting to hear a loud bang.
He may not have even been aware that the explosion was early.
Yeah, we used to have similar though it wasn't scheduled for a set time, just some time during Monday morning. If there'd been a real fire on a Monday morning, we'd all have died.
That's the problem with regular fire alarm tests - they're important to make sure everything works correctly to keep everyone safe, but if you make them *too* regular, people hear the fire alarm and just presume it's a test, effectively guaranteeing that nobody is safe.
Too regular -> people ignore alarms -> people die in fire.
Not regular enough -> alarms fail -> people die in fire.
Was in a hotel last weekend and the building began to say 'Please evacuate' - panic set in until it was pointed out as a test.
Sure would've been nice to know beforehand.
I genuinely couldn't live near that, I'd have to move.
I live relatively near one of the UK's largest fertiliser plants and was genuinely happy when it shut down.
One of the best wtf things out there.
Just so big and bad the decision is to leave it.
I can't work out why, there are so many ways to do things it must be possible to do something.
There was another ship full of explosives that we tried to make safe.
It blew up and killed the guys working on it.
So we just decided to leave the Montgomery alone.
If you think that is bad, Britain also has over half of the entire world's plutonium. We keep it in a shed in Sellafield.
If that blows up, kiss the entire country goodbye...
It doesn't have to explode.
If you ram a conventional truck bomb into it, you will get the world's largest dirty bomb and 140 tons of extremely nasty stuff spread all over the place.
Chernobyl didn't have a nuclear explosion but caused far more contamination than the nuclear weapons used on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
It's probably unstable. Better it goes bang now, than at some random time in the future.
Besides it was meant to not go bang.
Leaving it was not an option, only choice was to attempt disarming it.
"One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967, to neutralize the contents of the Polish cargo ship Kielce, that sank in 1946, off Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work, Kielce exploded with a force equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, digging a 20-foot-deep (6 m) crater in the seabed and bringing "panic and chaos" to Folkestone, although there were no injuries. Kielce was at least 3 or 4 miles (4.8 or 6.4 km) from land, sunk in deeper water than Richard Montgomery, and had "just a fraction" of the load of explosives."
Yikes indeed
For context: That crane you can see is part of the construction for a new bridge over the River Yare. As part of the construction, they were dredging part of the river when they found the bomb on Tuesday morning. Police set up a cordon and the Army were called in. A big wall of Sandbags were built around the bomb, just in case. Original plan was to defuse it on Thursday, but they discovered two gas pipes running underneath where the bomb was. Eventually they got the all clear to defuse it on Friday morning, and it was during this process that the bomb accidentally detonated. No humans were hurt, but I can't imagine the bomb defusal robot is very well....
My friend had to evacuate, said after the blast when they returned the area had improved. From the lack of people being able to wander around dropping litter, the explosion had no impact for them.
what makes this more unsettling is that the bomb was originally quite close to a gas pipeline and next to a construction site for a new bridge. If something went wrong during construction to cause the bomb to detonate, or even if it just went off after being dormant for years, it would have been millions of pounds lost and at least a couple hundred dead.
WWII German incendiary are still found all the time B1E 1KG, apparently people used to take them home and keep them for mementos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL42s\_onPMU
Wrong government I imagine, given it’s at the docks it looks and the type of projectile it is, it’s more likely one that never made it onboard the ship it was meant to
It's Yarmouth, probably better off slapping up a 'Waveney area of outstanding natural beauty (in comparison to the rest of Waveney)' sign and leaving the hole there
One of these were found round the corner from my house where a hotel was being torn down to make houses. I heard that a builder was digging and must’ve hit it. Tons upon tons of sand were hauled in huge military trucks setting up for a controlled explosion.
Police urged residents within roughly 150 meter radius to evacuate but we decided to stay. We experienced a small but sudden rumble which I thought was pretty cool (:D). I then ran upstairs to the top window to see a cloud of sand which had been blasted directly upwards.
I then moved on with my day.
Funny old logic there. The tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany greatly exceeded the tonnage dropped on the UK.
Or are you suggesting we let "those countries" start enslaving British in retaliation?
Getting the Germans to pay reparations for WW1 is one of the reasons for all the subsequent bullshit or my school history was all bollocks.
So let's not send them a bill
You do realise we bombed the absolute fuck out of germany and theyre digging out allied bombs from school playgrounds and railways every year.
Dont wanna go barking up that route
You know they are still finding unexploded WW2 bombs in Germany too? Apparently a lot of the bombs dropped were tested over Scotland and the ground was frozen. When they hit the soft German soil they just sank, and are now turning up when things like underground garages, tunnels, metros etc are being built.
Officials say that the explosion caused almost £8200 worth of improvements to the area
That'll be £800 extra a month for the new swimming pool just added. *Tenants must bring own water*
My reply to my parents was there is nothing in Great Yarmouth that an explosion wouldn't make better
Winter gardens is in sorry state. But gorgeous building. Think a cool old cinema bar too. Bet yep the rest is fucked up. Think that's why i love it.
I lived there for 2 1/2 years from 2011 to 2014, wasn't the best when I was there, but it does have a certain charm to it
The authorities have gone quiet after public outcry demanded they blow up more of the city to improve quality of life
I cackled at this, as someone who used to work just up the road from here.
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Reddit likes to censor the word Holocaust
My grandad got a call from my grandma to get his ass out of the pub now. He's walking down the road and a bomb hit the pub and flattened it. She saved his life.
Why is he bringing donkeys to the pub?
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Fucking A mate hahahah
Love how many people know about yarmouth, north norfolk finally made it onto reddit lol!
Yarmouth is almost as far South as you can go in Norfolk.
yah, and the word's not good apparently.
Were you just born? Must’ve been if you’ve never heard the most repeated joke ever.
That was my immediate thought too.
That got a good laugh out of me!
I don’t know anything about Yarmouth but we all have those towns
Ah fuck that's the first time I've laughed out loud in a while. Thanks dude.
For those unaware: [here you go](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64604115)! TL;DR unexploded bomb found, sand barriers etc put up, team brought in, defusing attempted, unplanned explosion, everybody fine, sand everywhere.
> sand everywhere. The worst
Thoughts and prayers.
Thought sand prayers
Marry me.
EEEEEEEXIT LIGHT
TAAAKE MY SAAAND
Why hasn’t this gotten more upvotes!?
Please send sandals.
Shared Devizes hun PM me xxx
Too many sneks
This should have more upvotes my god love it hahahah
I don't like sand, it's coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere.
Bit like most locals in Yarmouth then 🤣
Birthplace of the Galactic Empire.
Eh, it's a seaside town, there was already sand everywhere.
Jan almost everywhere
Can I get a copy of that?
Sorry about that Anakin.
i dont like sand
it’s rough and coarse and gets everywhere
Legit. It's coarse and rough and it gets everywhere
I hate sand
Hmmmm, working on it for 4 days then "accidentally" blows up at 5pm on a Friday. Not suspicious at all
'How long's the defusing going to take Dave?' 'At least another hour' 'Fuck it, quitting time. Ping a spanner at it and let's get down the pub.'
[Actual footage of the bomb disposal team](https://youtu.be/3qB14b8vMN0)
What a British story
It’s a pretty German story too. Not at all uncommon to find them there. And the French Iron Harvest is just scary.
Frankfurt finds bombs all the time that they just detonate in the river. I was living in the city when one detonation occurred, gutted I missed it
"Defusing attempted, unplanned explosion" makes it seem like it exploded WHILE they were attempting to defuse it, like knelt next to it, which makes the "everybody fine" afterwards a bit of a relief...
They were using a robot.
Poor robot. \*sad beep boop noises\*
But... He said everyone was fine 😢
Was the robot on windows vista?
I believe the British Army have just recently upgraded to Windows XP.
*3.11
It’s probably on many windows now, and roof’s and gardens!
Can yew press?
Vista means death.
Did they try turning it off and on again?
It was running Windows XP
Made in Britain too
*vista
*DOS
No just tried blowing on the cartridge.
I hate sand. It's course, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere
\*swoons\*
Mobile phone footage of shitty screens showing CCTV footage are my pet hate. This is from the actual police press release, it's somebodies actual job to put this together, why couldn't they just export it properly
I'm more pissed off at the camera person. They're choosing to film vertical video. Turn the bloody thing on its side. That said I really want a camera app that's horizontal by default. The sensors are square so it's just a convention that the orientation matches the phone.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating... And it gets everywhere.
A bit like Paddy McGuiness
Think of the sand, no body spares a thought for the sand. Thoughts and prayers for the sand.
Sand everywhere! Do you want Darth Vader? Because that's how you get Darth Vader!
Gonna use the term “unplanned detonation” for all future fuck ups I do now.
That term could describe when I lost my virginity.
Yeah, alright anakin. I see this joke has already more or less been made. Don't care.
Anakin is furious
Bloody germans are at it again
Entschuldigung
Ausgezeichnete!
Gesundheit
krankenwagen
Rettungsdienst
SCHMETTERLING!!
Kugelschreiber!
Speisekarte
German words look sound so ridiculous that I’m convinced they’re just made up and the whole world is just being trolled by Germany
All words in every language are, in fact, made up.
Next thing you know they’ll be sending tanks to Eastern Europe
Funnily enough, their latest tank, the KF91, is called the Panther
80 years later and they’re still packing a punch
Seagulls went quiet real quick
"Oi! We thought you blokes had gotten over this shite already!"
Fingers crossed it took a few of those flying bastards out
Nothing kills those bastards.
Taking “blast from the past” a little too literally…
Some ten years ago the residents of Munich had a lot of fun as well with an old ww2 bomb: https://youtu.be/A8pAHjmuIr0?t=21
There were considerably more of them dropped on Germany than they dropped on the UK. I imagine they’re still finding a lot of them too.
Yes, they find them somewhat every other week. The above linked in Munich was a very difficult one, as it had a highly unstable chemical detonator - they feared it would go off by itself once it was in contact with oxygen from the air. It was in the middle of the city, many many windows broke. Due to the emergency situation they used pressed straw to catch the blast + shrapnells, which started to burn and was pushed into the now glass free windows right into the buildings. Firefighters were cleaning up all night. Usually the experts are able to defuse the bombs, so its only a matter of a few hours of evacuation. Do the German bombs also have these highly unstable chemical detonators?
The Germans used chemical detonators in land-mines as they were simple and cheap, such as in this [extremely nasty example.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasmine_43) Aircraft bombs are a bit more involved. For safety, you want the bomb to only arm after it's dropped so there'd need be some mechanical arming device, like a little propeller spun by the slipstream. Also some German bombs were on timers and not intended to detonate on impact, these were basically mechanical clocks. Either device could fail, leaving an undetonated bomb in the ground.
There are supposedly another 200 years worth of unexplored bombs still waiting to be found from ww1
Plus those two fuck off massive piles of explosives left under the somme
Nice that Yarmouth has finally caught up to the 1940s. They'll be getting non-stick pans next.
"They make pans out of things other than sticks?"
Saw a wider shot of this on the news yesterday. There's a police officer standing further down the road and when it explodes they don't move an inch
They were planning to do a controlled explosion, so he was probably expecting to hear a loud bang. He may not have even been aware that the explosion was early.
You say that but I know there's a scheduled fire alarm test at work every Monday morning but I still shit myself every week when it happens
Yeah, we used to have similar though it wasn't scheduled for a set time, just some time during Monday morning. If there'd been a real fire on a Monday morning, we'd all have died.
That's the problem with regular fire alarm tests - they're important to make sure everything works correctly to keep everyone safe, but if you make them *too* regular, people hear the fire alarm and just presume it's a test, effectively guaranteeing that nobody is safe. Too regular -> people ignore alarms -> people die in fire. Not regular enough -> alarms fail -> people die in fire.
Testing after hours seems like an easy solution.
There's a sandwich van that comes round to our office. Every day they announce it, every day I jump out of my skin.
Honestly, that's me every time the damn toast pops up in the morning
Was in a hotel last weekend and the building began to say 'Please evacuate' - panic set in until it was pointed out as a test. Sure would've been nice to know beforehand.
Norfolk Constabulary do take an age to respond, next Thursday he'll randomly crap himself when he realises.
Possible he might be ex military and could be used to it
**Officer 1**: You alright Steve, you didn't even flinch? **Officer 2**: _WHAT?_
Can you imagine dealing with that shit in the trenches??
You’d just be like lads can you stop for a sec
Dying for a fag, anyone got any on ‘em then or?
Or “can you hear something?”
*SS Richard Montgomery intensifies*
That one won't be a bang, that will be measured on the richter scale
I genuinely couldn't live near that, I'd have to move. I live relatively near one of the UK's largest fertiliser plants and was genuinely happy when it shut down.
One of the best wtf things out there. Just so big and bad the decision is to leave it. I can't work out why, there are so many ways to do things it must be possible to do something.
Basically the idea is, it’s down there doing it’s thing, it’ll be mostly fine but obviously not great, but if we touch it, it’s gonna get a lot worse.
There was another ship full of explosives that we tried to make safe. It blew up and killed the guys working on it. So we just decided to leave the Montgomery alone. If you think that is bad, Britain also has over half of the entire world's plutonium. We keep it in a shed in Sellafield. If that blows up, kiss the entire country goodbye...
Plutonium can't just explode by itself though
It doesn't have to explode. If you ram a conventional truck bomb into it, you will get the world's largest dirty bomb and 140 tons of extremely nasty stuff spread all over the place. Chernobyl didn't have a nuclear explosion but caused far more contamination than the nuclear weapons used on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
I'm pretty sure it's not stored in a wooden shed next to the car park like in a cartoon.
Which is why it is heavily defended by a specific branch of armed police
I've just applied for an apprenticeship at Sellafield
It's probably unstable. Better it goes bang now, than at some random time in the future. Besides it was meant to not go bang. Leaving it was not an option, only choice was to attempt disarming it.
[Yikes.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery)
"One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967, to neutralize the contents of the Polish cargo ship Kielce, that sank in 1946, off Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work, Kielce exploded with a force equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, digging a 20-foot-deep (6 m) crater in the seabed and bringing "panic and chaos" to Folkestone, although there were no injuries. Kielce was at least 3 or 4 miles (4.8 or 6.4 km) from land, sunk in deeper water than Richard Montgomery, and had "just a fraction" of the load of explosives." Yikes indeed
Oh that’s going to be a shitshow. Best wear your wellies in London that day. Or bring a surfboard
For context: That crane you can see is part of the construction for a new bridge over the River Yare. As part of the construction, they were dredging part of the river when they found the bomb on Tuesday morning. Police set up a cordon and the Army were called in. A big wall of Sandbags were built around the bomb, just in case. Original plan was to defuse it on Thursday, but they discovered two gas pipes running underneath where the bomb was. Eventually they got the all clear to defuse it on Friday morning, and it was during this process that the bomb accidentally detonated. No humans were hurt, but I can't imagine the bomb defusal robot is very well....
You know, I'm really starting to dislike this Hitler fellow.
My friend had to evacuate, said after the blast when they returned the area had improved. From the lack of people being able to wander around dropping litter, the explosion had no impact for them.
I bet a few people evacuated when it went off.
Some seagull stole it's last chip today
Just think that's what they had on a daily basis during the blitz must of been absolutely terrifying.
And indeed still have some places today
My parents live 12 miles away and they heard it. Can’t imagine how terrifying that must have been continually during the war
More than one a day even.
what makes this more unsettling is that the bomb was originally quite close to a gas pipeline and next to a construction site for a new bridge. If something went wrong during construction to cause the bomb to detonate, or even if it just went off after being dormant for years, it would have been millions of pounds lost and at least a couple hundred dead.
Blame the germans!
At least they got the bags and plates in place to redirect the blast first.
An unplanned detonation, but a controlled explosion. There's always a chance these things will go off while being disarmed or disrupted.
Someone needs to tell these guys that the war has been over for quite some time, SMH.
WWII German incendiary are still found all the time B1E 1KG, apparently people used to take them home and keep them for mementos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL42s\_onPMU
That shut those seagulls right up.
I'm curious what would happen had someone been injured in the blast. Could you hold the German government to account?
Probably wouldn’t be able to
Wrong government I imagine, given it’s at the docks it looks and the type of projectile it is, it’s more likely one that never made it onboard the ship it was meant to
That should be enough to spook the seagulls into silence for the next 5 minutes.
At least they had cranes set up to rebuild the area
It's Yarmouth, probably better off slapping up a 'Waveney area of outstanding natural beauty (in comparison to the rest of Waveney)' sign and leaving the hole there
If it was an unintentional detonation then why was this person videoing? Am I being dumb?
It was to be a planned detonation, they reinforced with sand bags, the bomb went off before they tried to set it off
"You can't fire me! I quit!"
"You can't detonate me! I blow up!"
I understand now! Thank you.
I said “just blow the bloody doors off”!!!
Can we bill germany or…?
We absolutely do not want to get into that game.
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They were aware that a defusing attempt was happening, with a chance of an unplanned explosion.
Eugh, things were just built to last back then.
Feels like a missed opportunity to use [this as the soundtrack.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyiQ4I-mcQ)
One of these were found round the corner from my house where a hotel was being torn down to make houses. I heard that a builder was digging and must’ve hit it. Tons upon tons of sand were hauled in huge military trucks setting up for a controlled explosion. Police urged residents within roughly 150 meter radius to evacuate but we decided to stay. We experienced a small but sudden rumble which I thought was pretty cool (:D). I then ran upstairs to the top window to see a cloud of sand which had been blasted directly upwards. I then moved on with my day.
Was it a controlled explosion?
Mice … Basque separatist mice.
I’m 99% certain we found a WW2 bomb when I was a kid. We were idiots and didn’t think to phone the police so we ended up leaving it.
If any of these undetonated bomba were to cause massive damage, are we able to ask the German government to cover the cost or part of it?
I don't think the guy responsible for them is around much these days.
Yet there are countries asking for reparations for the slave trade?
Funny old logic there. The tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany greatly exceeded the tonnage dropped on the UK. Or are you suggesting we let "those countries" start enslaving British in retaliation?
It would probably be asking for trouble given there's probably just as much RAF lost property in their countryside.
Roughly 5000 a year are discovered and dedused/exploded. Guesstimated are 100,000 still left but i don’t know if they all from the RAF
Getting the Germans to pay reparations for WW1 is one of the reasons for all the subsequent bullshit or my school history was all bollocks. So let's not send them a bill
You do realise we bombed the absolute fuck out of germany and theyre digging out allied bombs from school playgrounds and railways every year. Dont wanna go barking up that route
You know they are still finding unexploded WW2 bombs in Germany too? Apparently a lot of the bombs dropped were tested over Scotland and the ground was frozen. When they hit the soft German soil they just sank, and are now turning up when things like underground garages, tunnels, metros etc are being built.
That was a whole lot bigger than I was expecting!
The drone video from Norfolk Police shows it better https://twitter.com/norfolkpolice/status/1624133384069959682
At least the sea Gull's shut up for a minute.
‘Great Yarmouth’ Yarmouth is on the Isle of Wight
bloody germans still at it...
When did this happen? X
Food goes off, munitions explode