WWI Bombs Are Still Being Found Over 100 Years Later

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5 жыл бұрын

Tens of millions of unexploded WWI bombs still litter the fields of eastern France one hundred years after the war ended. And people still die when they accidentally explode -- farmers, collectors, and occasionally even members of the de-mining teams sent to diffuse
and destroy them. VICE News embeds with a bomb squad in Metz, near some of the deadliest battlefields of Verdun, as they go about their grave, daily mission driving to farms to gather unexploded bombs, diffuse them, or safely blow them up on the spot
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@jackjanezic7752 4 жыл бұрын

When he said they use magnets to protect the cows from shrapnel, I thought he meant they would sweep the floor with them... NOT put it inside the cow!

@NoahNobody 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, we can't load them into the truck with our minds.

@MrMrDGK 4 жыл бұрын

I take it that hunting Easter eggs isn’t really a popular thing to do over there.

@Sebastian-hd6nw 4 жыл бұрын

WW2 bombs are also being found daily in Germany. The bomb squads have like 4 call outs per day across the country.

@ortoapp 3 жыл бұрын

My brother, in Sussex, England used to collect WW2 stuff he found in the fields around the house. Until one day, the police stopped him while he was carrying a machine gun down the street, they took him home and found a live shell being used as a door stop. The cul-de-sac was evacuated while his bedroom was cleared out.

@CeoLogJM 4 жыл бұрын

VICE, please do more of this type of stuff. This is much better than your normal stuff.

@alexbaxter3730 4 жыл бұрын

In Korea, mines are sliding down hills with the rain and mud

@themroc8231 4 жыл бұрын

4:30

@elvisboakye4082 4 жыл бұрын

I'd invite them to come with me to the fields of verdun,to them war is just pushing buttons, they're seen what it's really like, it's a pity no one learns the lesson

@bbeeaarrr 4 жыл бұрын

Pleasantly surprised this is from Vice in 2019. I assumed it was an old video because I watched it from start to finish. More of this.

@darj617 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from a tiny European country in the Balkans called Bosnia, and it is estimated that around 2.1% of the land is still considered dangerous due to minefields.

@useitwice 3 жыл бұрын

- Here is an impact grenade. If I dropped it, it might blow up" he says while holding it awkwardly with his palm and waiving it up and down. Nice.

@cameronkemske2391 4 жыл бұрын

The last lines about the world leaders knowing nothing about the real impacts of war was chilling. Vice has done it again with an awesome little news vid!

@SoraCyn 4 жыл бұрын

“To them, war is just the pushing of a button... they’ve never seen what’s it’s really like.

@thebigsad9463 4 жыл бұрын

This is normal in places like Germany, Italy and France

@Conn30Mtenor 3 жыл бұрын

I've been to the Somme and Verdun battlefields, it's quite something. While visiting Regina Trench cemetery (my paternal Grandfather was wounded there) I was walking through a farmer's filed and was picking up so much shrapnel and HE shell fragments that after a while I just gave up because there is so much of it. The whole place is one massive graveyard as well- the Verdun battlefield is only about 25km long and more than a million men died there.

@xxmagazinee4512 4 жыл бұрын

“They got money for war but can’t feed the poor”

@schurgy16 4 жыл бұрын

Okay so the most important thing to take away from this is:

@equarg 4 жыл бұрын

A few days after celebrating the 75th anniversary of the WW2 beach landings......a random bomb in a German field went off suddenly creating a 33 feet wide hole that was 13 feet deep.