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Construction Workers Find A Strange Contraption And Immediately Contact The City Officials
Sep 16, 2022
Construction Workers Find A Strange Contraption And Immediately Contact The City Officials
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working on a construction site It's Not
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Unusual to find objects that might seem
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out of place whether it's jewelry
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Antiques and in some cases even ancient
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artifacts it's easy for things to become
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buried under the ground only to be
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discovered Years Later by the
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construction workers digging into the
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in 2016 a construction team was working
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hard at Augsburg one of the oldest
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cities to ever exist in Germany once
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they're digging tools struck a large
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object they halted their work it was at
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this point they knew they had found
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something out of the ordinary the
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construction crew was in anticipation of
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Christmas which was just one week away
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many of them were looking to get some
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time off work to spend with their
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families the crew knew that the only
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thing to do now was to bring in a
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specialist to examine the object
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with no other options they made the call
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five days after the specialist visited
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the site and ran some tests
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officials were forced to make the
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decision whether to evacuate the whole
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city or not to everyone's horror the
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object they on Earth turned out to be an
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unexploded two-ton bomb right in the
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Heart of the City judging by the type of
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bomb it was concluded that it was one
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that was supposed to be detonated during
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World War II A horrifically Deadly
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conflict that lasted between
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1939 and 1945.
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after the conclusion of the war German
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cities began to slowly rebuild under the
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watchful eye of the occupying Allied
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soldiers
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however Builders and soldiers couldn't
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keep track of where some bombs had
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fallen they had never detonated the city
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officials of Augsburg gave the bombs
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location and the retrieval
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responsibilities over to the camp
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madella City youngstians can mambidi in
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hopes they would be able to solve the
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problem
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but can BB forces are a bomb disposal
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unit made of trained police officers and
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firefighters whose job is to handle
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situations exactly like this but how
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would they be able to diffuse a two-ton
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bomb that nobody was sure if it could
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explode at any second everyone was
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swooping their breath when horse
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Reinhardt the chief of the Brandenburg
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state kmbd joined the force in the 1980s
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he never imagined that he would still be
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doing the same job more than 30 years
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later incredibly every year the kmbd
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teams still discover close to 500 tons
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of weaponry and have to regularly
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diffuse bombs that were dropped by
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Allied strategic bomber planes the
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hardest part is both finding these
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unexploded bombs as well as informing
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the public to be extremely cautious when
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they are digging into the ground in
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order to avoid a catastrophe
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although worst and his team do a lot of
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work on their own they are only a small
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part of the German bomb retrieving
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effort nationally kmbb teams have
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located 2 000 tons of unexploded
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materials which is a frightening number
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over 70 years have passed since the
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bloody conflict that was World War
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tonight has ended and there's still no
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end to finding these unexploded bombs
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inside today in many parts of Germany
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before a new construction project breaks
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ground typically there's a survey
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completed of the area although they
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aren't always precise for example at one
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point twenty thousand people were
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evacuated from Kalan Germany when a
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one-ton bomb was found in the city
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during a construction project
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on top of that forty five thousand
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residents in koblins were also evacuated
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in 2011 when a bomb was discovered at
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the bottom of the Rhine River when the
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Tammy BB arrived on the scene in
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Augsburg they were Eerie about what they
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were looking at as it turns out the bond
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that had been uncovered belonged to the
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British royal Air Force concerned for
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the safety of a whole population of the
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city they prompted the largest
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evacuation since World War II
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54k people in Augsburg would be forced
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to leave their homes what's worse is
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that it would have to be on Christmas
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morning
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the construction team discovered the
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bomb on the 20th of December but the
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city waited until Christmas to enforce
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the evacuation for specific purposes
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City officials claimed that on a working
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day the evacuation would be much more
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difficult since the whole work and
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business life would be disrupted
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in order to ensure that the evacuation
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went as smoothly as possible the city
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used over 100 buses and trams to help
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the citizens of Augsburg out of the city
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as quickly as possible
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at 3 P.M on Christmas day two bomb
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defusing experts from Wurzburg got to
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work on the explosive at the time they
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were the only two people led within a
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mile of where the bomb had been found at
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the construction site considering that
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both of the men's lives were at risk as
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well as the safety of the surrounding
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buildings the two bomb experts worked
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tirelessly for hours to make sure that
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the job was done right
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the experts also were surrounded by a
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wall of sandbags just in case an
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explosion to happen it was a stressful
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four hours but in the end they were
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successful
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everyone breathed a big sigh of relief
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that nothing went wrong luckily the
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two-man bomb team was successful in
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their mission thanks to their skill and
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bravery they demonstrated through their
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work the Augsburg bong was diffused and
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the city's residents were allowed to
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return to their homes just in time for
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Christmas dinner
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although it was an incredibly stressful
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day for most everything worked out in
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the end
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this experience also helped to raise
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awareness about the dangers of
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unexploded bombs throughout the country
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of Germany
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[Music]
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thank you
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