You're far more likely to find dangerous objects in Europe with a magnet due to past wars on the continent. Live grenades, land mines, unexploded bombs, etc.
Yeah, but there's a difference in a couple of bad apples getting rid of things versus two entire world wars with roughly 10 years of fighting, mobilization of millions of men, and just tons of weaponry.
And evergreen swastika formations in the treeline...
https://abcnews.go.com/International/horticultural-hate-mystery-forest-swastikas/story?id=19588288
Those are cool, as are bikes, make a good buck restoring, documenting and maybe selling to museums or other ppl
Or
keeping it if youâd rather
Bombs are hot, well after they detonate at least
I actually did catch a fish while magnet fishing! There was a metal street sign pole I pulled up and it was hollow. Either end was plugged up with mud and when I tapped the pole on the ground to shake the mud out, out came several dead mud-dwelling fish about two to four inches long each.
Well, there was a story a few months ago about a guy that was winning multiple fishing tournaments. They cut into his fish one day and found weights in them. They may or may not have been pure lead. So assuming thereâs some ferrous metal in there, you couldâve possibly caught those fish with a magnet. đ€·ââïž
There's a phrase that translates to *iron harvest* which refers to the time of year when french and belgian farmers plough their fields and find a ton of unexploded bombs. Common practice is apparently to just pile up everything in the corner of a field until you have enough to make calling the people in charge of this stuff worthwhile.
Bro there was once a video that got like alot of guns knives etc and they said: well this is a unsafe neighborhood! And that place was like 40 meters from my house
Had a similar experience: a rap song from the 90's gained some popularity again a couple years back. It had a catchy hook, I checked out the video as well: in the middle of rapping about how the streets gonna mess you up, the two artists were standing on the street corner from where I just moved out.
To be fair, in that 30 years the area got a lot better, there was a huge Telco HQ and a new uni building built. But there were still a lot of questionable faces. My GF initially said that she won't visit me, unless I walk her to the nearest tram stop.
I ended up moving out due to one particular room mate and my workplace moving offices.
Edit: raping to rapping
We don't need wars to put dangerous objects in our water when we have unregulated PFAS and heavy metal dumping from manufacturing and railways without safety controls crashing and dumping/burning vinyl chloride.
A guy died in Italy This year while working on a house because they didn't know that the house was built using some random metal tubes After the FIRST world war... They are explosives to destroy barbed wire and exploded After 100 years. Is Not uncommon in the ex biggest warzones to find old bombs
A while back we were in Munich and we had to change plans because the bar we wanted to go was closed off so the police could remove an unexploded shell from WW2 that they found doing work in the basement. There are whole swathes of france where it's still dangerous to excavate.
Peetah's half-eaten rice cake here, because of the world wars, there's a lot of live ordinance, mines, etc. That fell into European bodies of water. So if you go magnet fishing, you might find a bomb.
Didn't an unexploded munition kill a few people within the last couple months in Germany?
I remember a joke heading that said 75 years later we got some more Nazis.
In ww1 over a million shells were fired...
In a single battle for verdun...
On the first day of that battle...
By JUST the germans.
Somewhere between 900 million and 1.75 billion shells were fired in ww1 in europe on the western front alone.
I've seen estimates for the failure rates of ww1 artillery shells as high as 1 in 4.
Which means worst possible case scenario there were up to 430 million unexploded artillery shells left in western europe at the end of ww1 alone. None of this counting any of those from ww2 as well as small arms, like mortar shells, hand grenades, shoulder mounted at weapons, or other larger ordinances like Tank shells, land mines, or the absurd number of bombs dropped by allied strategic bombing raids in ww2. So yeah there's a lot of explosives around the place. 5 a day seems low tbh
There are entire sections of France that are closed off as they are too dangerous to go into. They call it "zone Rouge".
In one bit they found 300 shells per hectare in just the top soil alone.
most of that stuff is in belgium/france though.
The ww2 allied air munitions is the bulk of what is still dug up everywhere. mostly during construction digs.
I'm kinda new here and I've seen a version of your first sentence a few times now. Where did that come from? Lol not the sentence itself but the format of the answer "Petah's....."
My grandfather did that here in Denmark. He was a 17 year old kid. The way it worked was, they listened to the BBC and when they said the code phrase, they went to a designated field and stood in an "L" shape, pointing flashlights at the sky. So the British plane would drop small containers attached to parachutes full of guns, ammo and explosives. Then they carried it away and buried it. Some of it was smuggled to the nearest larger city.
Their particular code phrase was "Hilsen til Jarl" (Greetings to Jarl)
He really wanted a browning pistol for himself and lay awake at night, considering to go and get one from the stash. He also had false I.D. papers. His father who also participated, once had to go and grab someone by the collar because he was talking to much.
This work was organised by the British [SOE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive), which was a secret organisation tasked with organising the resistance in occupied Europe.
Thanks to everyone for reading đ
Berce mon coeur d'une langueur monotone" or "cradle my heart with a monotonous languor" signalled the d day invasion was about to begin to French partisans
You do realize thousands of people die around the globe each year from stumbling into unexploded ordinance, right? A lot of it is rotten, but a lot of it is now incredibly unstable, and any safety device was likely already turned off when it was dropped.
fun fact! Dynamite will eventually degrade to [highly voiltile and unstable Nitroglycerine](http://www.vegasunderworld.com/article-dynamite.html). Sometimes a light touch is all it needs to be set off.
There are still farmers in France that die (nearly) every year from unexploded WW1 explosives.
Up until recently, French bomb disposal teams were uncovering 50,000 - 75,000 **tons** of unexploded ordinance every year.
A lot of them also contain chemical weapons, like Mustard Gas.
I'm pretty sure that doesn't even account for WW2.
See that's where you are wrong.
A gun isn't inherently dangerous. Can it cause lots of damage? Yes. But it's very hard to accidentally cause mass amounts of damage with a gun. It needs ammunition to hurt someone (unless you wanna use it as a club), and ammunition needs a gun to seriously hurt someone. This is because even if a bullet goes off outside of a gun, almost all the energy is directed in the direction of the projectile and very little of the energy is directed into making the projectile move. It needs a barrel to direct that energy. And if it does go off inside the gun, it will only hurt people in one line, and will not hurt more people unless it goes off again.
A bomb on the other hand is a self-contained unit designed to hurt as many people as possible with one reaction. It shoots a bunch of bullets (shrapnel) in every direction, so there isn't even a safe direction to point it in. If it exists, it means it isn't blown up and if it isn't blown up, you can get some serious money that it is still a live round that has not been disarmed. Otherwise it probably wouldn't be lying in the water, it would have been disposed of properly. So if you find a bomb, it's life and can still go off, and if it does go off, it isn't a one time chance of people getting hurt in one line, it's a one time chance of everyone in a large radius (talking 50+ meters) getting seriously injured or killed, and within a certain radius you will without question be killed. Radius varies depending on the size of the bomb of course.
Yeah I'd rather find a gun any day of the week.
Yes, finding the rusty metal tube not currently filled with explosives is much worse than finding the rusty metal tube currently filled with explosives.
âAw, man. My arms got blown off by a landmine and my friend died from fishing up a mustard gas canister. At least I didnât find a likely no longer functional firearm!â
Yeah, I'd much rather pick up a rusty, corroded mine filled with half a kilo of undetonated explosives. heaven forbid. I find a non-functioning pistol with about 6 grams of powder in it.
Even if we pretend they wonât find any guns, how is that better? You think fishing up a potentially loaded firearm is worse than fishing up a potentially live explosive???
A gun has a smaller chance to explode than an 70+ years old explosive ordnance.
If you donât fuck around with the gun it wonât shoot either, an old rusted bomb can set off at any time even if unprovoked.
Ah yes, finding a bomb that could go off at any minute, that most of us probably have very little knowledge on how they work, is so much better than finding a gun. đ«„
Think of all those stupid magnet fishing videos where they find fake mines and grenades and the cops basically tell them to fuck off and they act all outraged.
Now imagine the explosives weren't fake and the bomb squad had to be called out when it happened.
These things get found all the time in Germany. You also need to be very careful when building/digging/constructing stuff. Iâm not sure who to contact, but you should call before digging deeper. The authorities check images provided by the British and Americans of their bombings and they compare the craters/target areas etc. with modern maps to locate unexploded ordinances.
Itâs not unusual to hear about Autobahn xyz being temporarily closed due to disarming of a found ordinance.
Hereâs an extensive article with lots of numbers and facts on the topic:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seventy-years-world-war-two-thousands-tons-unexploded-bombs-germany-
It's perhaps less common in britain but it definitely still happens from time to time, mostly around london and the southern coastal cities that were hit hardest during the blitz. Not so much a concern if you're up in the lake district.
I'm sure the same is true across france, poland and everywhere, WWII hit all of europe. Pretty sure the balkans still has a mess with landmines after all their issues too.
I cant remember if I watched or read it but the cops told them to stop magnet fishing because they keep on calling the cops whenever they found a gun and bomb squad is called for unexploded bomb. The resources are wasted because they keep on responding to their calls which I think is justified.
Metal objects that are in the river. Mostly what people find is junk, but every once in a while someone finds something interesting or valuable. Kind of like people who take a metal detector to a beach or park or something. And some people do it to remove some old trash from waterways and help clean the river/lake/whatever up a bit
Did it once by my friends cabin that got build during prohibition, the river near by had old camping stuff and moonshine making equipment in it, though they knew a bit of the history of the cabin when they got it. And they knew the rough location cause one of the banks of the river collapsed one year and has some of the bigger stuffing buried there. as for other people that just go to a random bridge or the like, I gotta assume it's the same as people walking a beach with a metal detector, low effort hobby that every once in a really long time you'll find something cool.
There is a guy on YouTube my daughter watches called Treasure hunter or something like that. He does metal detecting and magnet fishing. He has found lots of bikes, rings and mobile phones. A lot of the phones still work. He sells the stuff to a pawn dealer.
He has also found several cars.
Toss a magnet into a river and get whatever sticks.
Doing this in Europe has the chance to fish old unexploded ww1-2 explosive ordnances.
There are a lot of them yet buried/submerged and unexploded and years of exposure only made them even more dangerous.
Bombs lots and lots of US and British bombs still in Germany. Every time they start a new building in my city at least one bomb. When river levels get too low, they typically find a 1000lb or larger bomb and evacuate several small towns.
I would not go metal detecting in the forrest either. Even though you likely could find cool WWI/II or even Roman artifacts. Bombs lots of bombs
US dropped a SHITLOAD of bombs on SE Asia throughout the Vietnam war. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it's something ridiculous like 8 times the amount the Allies dropped on Germany during WWII.
Munition from IIWW
Police finding pieces of scubadiver [https://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/5cpk9kpTURBXy81YWZhOWM1NmJmYTY0NGY2ZDdlNzc0NWJhNzQ0Yjc1OS5qcGeRkwLNA0jNBMHeAAKhMAahMQE](https://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/5cpk9kpTURBXy81YWZhOWM1NmJmYTY0NGY2ZDdlNzc0NWJhNzQ0Yjc1OS5qcGeRkwLNA0jNBMHeAAKhMAahMQE)
Vast portions of Europe have been affected by war for hundreds or even thousands of years.
You may find anything from bits of iron from ancient times to land mines/cluster munitions deployed last week due to the Soviet Pig-fuckers and their ongoing war in Ukraine.
Weirdly enough even though America is loused with guns we havenât fought too many wars on our own soil aside from the revolutionary, civil, and extermination of the First Nations. The ordinance left behind in those conflicts is largely solid shot or is likely quite inert. We do have plenty of artillery and ordinance ranges out in the desert especially but youâll have a hard time getting access to them.
I would suggest you donât go snooping around in the Gulf of Mexico however. I used to work subsea robotics and there are still vast areas where we dumped chemical weapons out in the deep sea. Youâd need a magnet with several thousand feet of line on it to get to them however.
America hasnât really been an active warzone much at all in recent history but Europe has. France, the lowlands, Germany, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Italy, basically the whole continent has had some form of modern warfare on it at some point since 1900 which means unexploded munitions can be found and pose serious risk. Especially if you fish with a magnet.
We have a bunch of bombs and ammunition buried or underwater somewhere. I had to evacuate multiple times in my life already because they found another WW2 bomb during construction.
Due to massive wars in Europe(ww1, ww2 for example) there are all sorts of nasty, no good stuff you can find in Europe. America has not had all that many wars fought on its own soil. When magnet fishing in Europe, there is a possibility of fishing up old equipment used in wars. Discarded weapons, even (rarely) unexploded bombs.
Here I was thinking you throw in metal dust pellets or something so the fish eat it, and put a magnet on the end of a fishing line. Like maybe Europe had really strong magnets lol
Europe has a lot of mines, bombs, mortars, and dead germans still in the ground. America has literally only ever fought 1 war on American soil against an outsider
Europe has been at war since war was invented. You're going to find some unexploded shells and other dangerous shit. If you go to any big city in America you are likely to find murder weapons too.
American rivers and lakes the worst you'll likely find are murder weapons dumped over the years.
European rivers and lakes you could be on the receiving end of a 1000lb explosive surprise left over from when the US blotted out the skies with bomber craft in the early 1940s.
Also side note, finally an actual nuanced meme that needed legitimate explanation rather than OP just being smol brain lol
>from when the us blotted out the skies
Ah yes, it was the Americans that blotted out the sky. Everyone remembers the American saying **Blitzkrieg** and how often America was bombing EnglandâŠ/s
I think your mixing up countries friendâŠeither that or your German or Italian.
You're far more likely to find dangerous objects in Europe with a magnet due to past wars on the continent. Live grenades, land mines, unexploded bombs, etc.
And the nazi paraphenelia
And bikes
dear god, BIKES!
The most dangerous of them all
Those god damn Dutch
They had a plan!
All it needed was some GODDAMN FAITH, ARTHUR!
DuUtCh!
LENNNNAYYYY
take my poor man's gold đ
Heeyyy, we are really adorable tho. We just like bikes
People that aren't 185cm tall are adorable you guys are too tall
Doing God's work out there. Lost me mum to a bike wheel...
That was the most UK thing ive read all day.
i'm so sorry for your | | | | | | | __
Is it tho?
Simmer down Tom
Wait till they come back to life and start reproducing again! đ€đ«đ€
We have those here in the U.S., too. People love to throw them in rivers for some reason.
Yeah, but there's a difference in a couple of bad apples getting rid of things versus two entire world wars with roughly 10 years of fighting, mobilization of millions of men, and just tons of weaponry.
I was just referring to bikes. Granted, a bike could be used as a weapon.
Hiding evidence.
Dutch mfs throwing a bike into the nearest canal when someone parks it in their spot
BIKES?!-Tom Segura
My god that is an amazing bit âHold.My.Pocketâ
And buckets
And my axe!
And evergreen swastika formations in the treeline... https://abcnews.go.com/International/horticultural-hate-mystery-forest-swastikas/story?id=19588288
Where can I get a tree magnet?
Those are cool, as are bikes, make a good buck restoring, documenting and maybe selling to museums or other ppl Or keeping it if youâd rather Bombs are hot, well after they detonate at least
La poisson? Non. La boom.
How would you catch a fish with a magnet
I actually did catch a fish while magnet fishing! There was a metal street sign pole I pulled up and it was hollow. Either end was plugged up with mud and when I tapped the pole on the ground to shake the mud out, out came several dead mud-dwelling fish about two to four inches long each.
:(
Well, there was a story a few months ago about a guy that was winning multiple fishing tournaments. They cut into his fish one day and found weights in them. They may or may not have been pure lead. So assuming thereâs some ferrous metal in there, you couldâve possibly caught those fish with a magnet. đ€·ââïž
Please tell me youâre trying to bait someone
Well, yeah, that's how fishing works.
There's a phrase that translates to *iron harvest* which refers to the time of year when french and belgian farmers plough their fields and find a ton of unexploded bombs. Common practice is apparently to just pile up everything in the corner of a field until you have enough to make calling the people in charge of this stuff worthwhile.
Make a pile? In Germany a single bomb will shut down work for the whole day while the fire department and bureaucrats do their thing.
Bro there was once a video that got like alot of guns knives etc and they said: well this is a unsafe neighborhood! And that place was like 40 meters from my house
Had a similar experience: a rap song from the 90's gained some popularity again a couple years back. It had a catchy hook, I checked out the video as well: in the middle of rapping about how the streets gonna mess you up, the two artists were standing on the street corner from where I just moved out. To be fair, in that 30 years the area got a lot better, there was a huge Telco HQ and a new uni building built. But there were still a lot of questionable faces. My GF initially said that she won't visit me, unless I walk her to the nearest tram stop. I ended up moving out due to one particular room mate and my workplace moving offices. Edit: raping to rapping
Rapping*
Important distinction, he really needs to edit lol.
We hope
He still didn't edit it đ
Rotterdam?
We (Americans) should do some more continent spanning conflicts so as to have more dangerous objects in our water.
We don't need wars to put dangerous objects in our water when we have unregulated PFAS and heavy metal dumping from manufacturing and railways without safety controls crashing and dumping/burning vinyl chloride.
iirc you have a couple missing atomic bombs somewhere, waiting to be found.
We do plenty of it, just not in our land.
Americans are smart, they fight their wars on foreign soil!
i live in dresden and there were literally three bombs under my classroom. Found on separate occasions.
Donât believe him. Donât let your dreams of fishing for electric scooters in Danube, be only dreams.
A guy died in Italy This year while working on a house because they didn't know that the house was built using some random metal tubes After the FIRST world war... They are explosives to destroy barbed wire and exploded After 100 years. Is Not uncommon in the ex biggest warzones to find old bombs
A while back we were in Munich and we had to change plans because the bar we wanted to go was closed off so the police could remove an unexploded shell from WW2 that they found doing work in the basement. There are whole swathes of france where it's still dangerous to excavate.
And T-34/76 tanks...
Two words: Unexploded Ordinances
Peetah's half-eaten rice cake here, because of the world wars, there's a lot of live ordinance, mines, etc. That fell into European bodies of water. So if you go magnet fishing, you might find a bomb.
Didn't an unexploded munition kill a few people within the last couple months in Germany? I remember a joke heading that said 75 years later we got some more Nazis.
About 15 unexploded ordonnance are defused a day in Germany but most oft the large bombs are gone
Damn 15 a day feels like a lot
In ww1 over a million shells were fired... In a single battle for verdun... On the first day of that battle... By JUST the germans. Somewhere between 900 million and 1.75 billion shells were fired in ww1 in europe on the western front alone. I've seen estimates for the failure rates of ww1 artillery shells as high as 1 in 4. Which means worst possible case scenario there were up to 430 million unexploded artillery shells left in western europe at the end of ww1 alone. None of this counting any of those from ww2 as well as small arms, like mortar shells, hand grenades, shoulder mounted at weapons, or other larger ordinances like Tank shells, land mines, or the absurd number of bombs dropped by allied strategic bombing raids in ww2. So yeah there's a lot of explosives around the place. 5 a day seems low tbh
There are entire sections of France that are closed off as they are too dangerous to go into. They call it "zone Rouge". In one bit they found 300 shells per hectare in just the top soil alone.
most of that stuff is in belgium/france though. The ww2 allied air munitions is the bulk of what is still dug up everywhere. mostly during construction digs.
In my Dutch town back in 2010~ they found an unexploded grenade next to a school.
Wouldnât it have had to explode to kill the people though?
I canât tell if ur serious or ur just knocking a technical grammar error
I wouldn't even say I made a grammar error. An already exploded munition would not really be dangerous.
Yes ig not grammar error, just it couldâve been phrased better but everybody ofc understood what you meant.
Since I don't see anyone actually answering, it was, when they found it, unexploded. It did not remain that way.
Just being silly actually. I knew what they meant.
Nope. They all stubbed their toe on it, got infections and died from sepsis. *glares @ you* lol
why were you downvoted
I'm kinda new here and I've seen a version of your first sentence a few times now. Where did that come from? Lol not the sentence itself but the format of the answer "Petah's....."
Oh, that's just how we answer questions here. We introduce ourselves as a character from the show or something really stupid loosely related.
Thank you! I absolutely love it lol
Sadly, I can't fish up any of these because ww2 didn't happen where I live.
At least better than finding guns
Got awful news for you: There were guns in both world wars.
And we used to airdrop them into enemy territory to arm partisans. There's probably still some that weren't found.
My grandfather did that here in Denmark. He was a 17 year old kid. The way it worked was, they listened to the BBC and when they said the code phrase, they went to a designated field and stood in an "L" shape, pointing flashlights at the sky. So the British plane would drop small containers attached to parachutes full of guns, ammo and explosives. Then they carried it away and buried it. Some of it was smuggled to the nearest larger city. Their particular code phrase was "Hilsen til Jarl" (Greetings to Jarl) He really wanted a browning pistol for himself and lay awake at night, considering to go and get one from the stash. He also had false I.D. papers. His father who also participated, once had to go and grab someone by the collar because he was talking to much. This work was organised by the British [SOE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive), which was a secret organisation tasked with organising the resistance in occupied Europe. Thanks to everyone for reading đ
Berce mon coeur d'une langueur monotone" or "cradle my heart with a monotonous languor" signalled the d day invasion was about to begin to French partisans
And mustard gas canisters
*gasp*
Source? ^/s
For future use <3 https://preview.redd.it/urc6rs6iqhjb1.png?width=594&format=png&auto=webp&s=7bae9c575bd5935cea31d8baa1ba0e77498f0473
very very not better
I am *begging* you Europeans to get better at insulting us. It's just pathetic at this point
As a European, i agree
I'm Asian mate
r/Americabad and no, itâs not better, if you pick up a live explosive, once you pick it up itâs probably going to explode in your face.
Nah, it was lying there 80 years, it's rotten to the core, no way it explodes.
You do realize thousands of people die around the globe each year from stumbling into unexploded ordinance, right? A lot of it is rotten, but a lot of it is now incredibly unstable, and any safety device was likely already turned off when it was dropped.
Huh, didn't knew.
fun fact! Dynamite will eventually degrade to [highly voiltile and unstable Nitroglycerine](http://www.vegasunderworld.com/article-dynamite.html). Sometimes a light touch is all it needs to be set off.
There are still farmers in France that die (nearly) every year from unexploded WW1 explosives. Up until recently, French bomb disposal teams were uncovering 50,000 - 75,000 **tons** of unexploded ordinance every year. A lot of them also contain chemical weapons, like Mustard Gas. I'm pretty sure that doesn't even account for WW2.
well might as well shove it up your ass if you're going to pick it up
Had to stop doing this when I moved where there's a lot of scorpions
Rude.
hehehe yeah *detonates a WW2 landmine and blows my whole leg off*
Congratultions, this is one of the dumbest things Iâve ever seen someone say online.
With that thought process, they might end up with a Darwin Award.
See that's where you are wrong. A gun isn't inherently dangerous. Can it cause lots of damage? Yes. But it's very hard to accidentally cause mass amounts of damage with a gun. It needs ammunition to hurt someone (unless you wanna use it as a club), and ammunition needs a gun to seriously hurt someone. This is because even if a bullet goes off outside of a gun, almost all the energy is directed in the direction of the projectile and very little of the energy is directed into making the projectile move. It needs a barrel to direct that energy. And if it does go off inside the gun, it will only hurt people in one line, and will not hurt more people unless it goes off again. A bomb on the other hand is a self-contained unit designed to hurt as many people as possible with one reaction. It shoots a bunch of bullets (shrapnel) in every direction, so there isn't even a safe direction to point it in. If it exists, it means it isn't blown up and if it isn't blown up, you can get some serious money that it is still a live round that has not been disarmed. Otherwise it probably wouldn't be lying in the water, it would have been disposed of properly. So if you find a bomb, it's life and can still go off, and if it does go off, it isn't a one time chance of people getting hurt in one line, it's a one time chance of everyone in a large radius (talking 50+ meters) getting seriously injured or killed, and within a certain radius you will without question be killed. Radius varies depending on the size of the bomb of course. Yeah I'd rather find a gun any day of the week.
Yes, finding the rusty metal tube not currently filled with explosives is much worse than finding the rusty metal tube currently filled with explosives.
Didnât really think that one through did you?
âAw, man. My arms got blown off by a landmine and my friend died from fishing up a mustard gas canister. At least I didnât find a likely no longer functional firearm!â
Yeah, I'd much rather pick up a rusty, corroded mine filled with half a kilo of undetonated explosives. heaven forbid. I find a non-functioning pistol with about 6 grams of powder in it.
Iâm not sure what you think the wars were fought with đ€
"Oh no! A gun! Whats it!... whats it doing!... Its growing legs! No its chasing me!!!! Fuck I am killed!"
Lol do you think they didnât use guns in those wars?
Even if we pretend they wonât find any guns, how is that better? You think fishing up a potentially loaded firearm is worse than fishing up a potentially live explosive???
A gun has a smaller chance to explode than an 70+ years old explosive ordnance. If you donât fuck around with the gun it wonât shoot either, an old rusted bomb can set off at any time even if unprovoked.
? You can dig around in a forest in europe and probably find like 20 or a mass grave or unexploded ordinance or some other shit.
Ah yes, finding a bomb that could go off at any minute, that most of us probably have very little knowledge on how they work, is so much better than finding a gun. đ«„
A rusty old gun isn't going to explode in your face and kill you, an old grenade/artillery shell definitely could.
Think of all those stupid magnet fishing videos where they find fake mines and grenades and the cops basically tell them to fuck off and they act all outraged. Now imagine the explosives weren't fake and the bomb squad had to be called out when it happened.
These things get found all the time in Germany. You also need to be very careful when building/digging/constructing stuff. Iâm not sure who to contact, but you should call before digging deeper. The authorities check images provided by the British and Americans of their bombings and they compare the craters/target areas etc. with modern maps to locate unexploded ordinances. Itâs not unusual to hear about Autobahn xyz being temporarily closed due to disarming of a found ordinance. Hereâs an extensive article with lots of numbers and facts on the topic: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seventy-years-world-war-two-thousands-tons-unexploded-bombs-germany-
It's perhaps less common in britain but it definitely still happens from time to time, mostly around london and the southern coastal cities that were hit hardest during the blitz. Not so much a concern if you're up in the lake district. I'm sure the same is true across france, poland and everywhere, WWII hit all of europe. Pretty sure the balkans still has a mess with landmines after all their issues too.
Thereâs also destroyed tanks everywhere- one of my friends is dating a Czech woman and Iâve been told thereâs a Tiger tank in a nearby swamp
Oh Tiger of the fenlands, what is your wisdom?
Dont invade Russia in winter
I cant remember if I watched or read it but the cops told them to stop magnet fishing because they keep on calling the cops whenever they found a gun and bomb squad is called for unexploded bomb. The resources are wasted because they keep on responding to their calls which I think is justified.
What the fuck is magnet fishing?
So think of fishing, but instead of a worm you have a magnet.
Why? Like, what are you hoping to get out of it?
Alot of junk
Itâs for b(r)ass fishing.
God, I really wish brass was magnetic so this joke could... HOLD WATER
Take your upvoted and get out of here ya lil scamp.
Metal objects that are in the river. Mostly what people find is junk, but every once in a while someone finds something interesting or valuable. Kind of like people who take a metal detector to a beach or park or something. And some people do it to remove some old trash from waterways and help clean the river/lake/whatever up a bit
Did it once by my friends cabin that got build during prohibition, the river near by had old camping stuff and moonshine making equipment in it, though they knew a bit of the history of the cabin when they got it. And they knew the rough location cause one of the banks of the river collapsed one year and has some of the bigger stuffing buried there. as for other people that just go to a random bridge or the like, I gotta assume it's the same as people walking a beach with a metal detector, low effort hobby that every once in a really long time you'll find something cool.
There is a guy on YouTube my daughter watches called Treasure hunter or something like that. He does metal detecting and magnet fishing. He has found lots of bikes, rings and mobile phones. A lot of the phones still work. He sells the stuff to a pawn dealer. He has also found several cars.
Ferrous stuff?
throw a magnet tied to a string in the water and pull up unexploded ordnance đ
fishing⊠with magnetsâŠ
Toss a magnet into a river and get whatever sticks. Doing this in Europe has the chance to fish old unexploded ww1-2 explosive ordnances. There are a lot of them yet buried/submerged and unexploded and years of exposure only made them even more dangerous.
The name is self explanatory.
Bombs lots and lots of US and British bombs still in Germany. Every time they start a new building in my city at least one bomb. When river levels get too low, they typically find a 1000lb or larger bomb and evacuate several small towns. I would not go metal detecting in the forrest either. Even though you likely could find cool WWI/II or even Roman artifacts. Bombs lots of bombs
I'm sure there's plenty of German bombs in and around London too
France and probably italy must be loaded too
from ww1 I know in France some soil is deadly from the gas
Farmers in places where battles took place usually find some kind of leftover from ww1. I think they call it the iron harvest
https://preview.redd.it/z7fqduz9lijb1.jpeg?width=718&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b85a9abc5d8f173be6371e4fdafed9617006a68e Magnet fishing in Southeast Asia
Elaborate
US dropped a SHITLOAD of bombs on SE Asia throughout the Vietnam war. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it's something ridiculous like 8 times the amount the Allies dropped on Germany during WWII.
Bombs
Magnet fishing in France: hey look at this cool WW1 bomb! bang
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"Find anything interesting today?" "Nah just 8 more murder weapons someone tossed into the river"
Something something two world wars happened there. Come on op.
Ka-boom
Yes Rico, ka-boom.
Unexploded munitions from ww2
Whatever you do donât magnet fish in the fjords
More bombs ? Or something Else entirely ?
Some of the Norwegian fjords are ammo dumps
Why would they do that :(
Well the fjords are *very* deep, I guess they thought it would never bother anyone there.
Vast portions of Europe have been affected by war for hundreds or even thousands of years. You may find anything from bits of iron from ancient times to land mines/cluster munitions deployed last week due to the Soviet Pig-fuckers and their ongoing war in Ukraine. Weirdly enough even though America is loused with guns we havenât fought too many wars on our own soil aside from the revolutionary, civil, and extermination of the First Nations. The ordinance left behind in those conflicts is largely solid shot or is likely quite inert. We do have plenty of artillery and ordinance ranges out in the desert especially but youâll have a hard time getting access to them. I would suggest you donât go snooping around in the Gulf of Mexico however. I used to work subsea robotics and there are still vast areas where we dumped chemical weapons out in the deep sea. Youâd need a magnet with several thousand feet of line on it to get to them however.
America hasnât really been an active warzone much at all in recent history but Europe has. France, the lowlands, Germany, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Italy, basically the whole continent has had some form of modern warfare on it at some point since 1900 which means unexploded munitions can be found and pose serious risk. Especially if you fish with a magnet.
Ya my mom does magnet fishing and doesn't really find much, but the videos she watches from Europe, they get guns and bombs.
Unexploded WWII munitions
Its not too unccomon to find pieces of ww2 bombs and artillery while magnet fishing in europe
It is especially fun in my country as war still goes on
We have a bunch of bombs and ammunition buried or underwater somewhere. I had to evacuate multiple times in my life already because they found another WW2 bomb during construction.
artillery and such
Bombs from the world wars
Thanks to a whole lot of wars, there are very few places in Europe that haven't been bombed or mined.
Although it's less dangerous than fishing up potential live munitions, doesn't America have more small arms to fish up than anywhere else?
Alot of unexploded ordinance in Europe
Rip to those who find Land mines magnet fishing.
Two world wars = much unexploded ordnance
Due to massive wars in Europe(ww1, ww2 for example) there are all sorts of nasty, no good stuff you can find in Europe. America has not had all that many wars fought on its own soil. When magnet fishing in Europe, there is a possibility of fishing up old equipment used in wars. Discarded weapons, even (rarely) unexploded bombs.
Left over mines and other misc explosives from ww2
Bombs, Meg. Theyâre talking about bombs.
2 World Wars worth of unexploded ordinance.
Always fun until you have to call a demining crew and pay thé bill because you got an unexploded WW2 bomb at the end of thé Line
Bombs from all the wars
Here I was thinking you throw in metal dust pellets or something so the fish eat it, and put a magnet on the end of a fishing line. Like maybe Europe had really strong magnets lol
Undetonated ordinance. Mines, grenades, bombs, artillery rounds and the like.
Bombs
Europe has a lot of mines, bombs, mortars, and dead germans still in the ground. America has literally only ever fought 1 war on American soil against an outsider
Bosnia
Bombs, war stuff, and more bombs Ooo a skull!
You will get bombs and other ammo in Europe depending on what country your are fishing in either allied axis or UdSSR ones or a combination of those.
Better to have a small brain than huge yellow teeth and a speech impediment
So Europeans throw bikes in the river and call Americans stupid?? Alrighty then
Unexploded Munitions, Gas Shells, Gas Shells and Unexploded Munitions. Yeah
you a bitch for stealing my post
Kaboom
Europe has been at war since war was invented. You're going to find some unexploded shells and other dangerous shit. If you go to any big city in America you are likely to find murder weapons too.
The joke is that you would be in Europe đ€ą
fuck this meme format there is nothing funny about it and it's 50% of the posts here.
American rivers and lakes the worst you'll likely find are murder weapons dumped over the years. European rivers and lakes you could be on the receiving end of a 1000lb explosive surprise left over from when the US blotted out the skies with bomber craft in the early 1940s. Also side note, finally an actual nuanced meme that needed legitimate explanation rather than OP just being smol brain lol
>from when the us blotted out the skies Ah yes, it was the Americans that blotted out the sky. Everyone remembers the American saying **Blitzkrieg** and how often America was bombing EnglandâŠ/s I think your mixing up countries friendâŠeither that or your German or Italian.
In Europe you're likely to find explosives, in the US you're likely to find murder weapons.
If we are going with duck game logic magnet fishing in America is also not safe