Military vehicle carries unexploded WW2 bomb through deserted streets of Plymouth
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2024
- An unexploded Nazi bomb which was discovered in a back garden in Plymouth has been driven through the streets and taken out to sea for disposal.
Hundreds of residents were evacuated from their homes as the military removed the 500kg explosive, which is believed to date back to the Second World War.
According to the Ministry of Defence, the device is now submerged at a "safe depth" in the sea and Royal Navy divers will plant an explosive charge on it within the next 24 hours.
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If only VW could still build things to last that long
😂😂
Thanks 😂
Taking my 69 Bug for a spin today 🎉
Nah that’s a hit aye yo Trident take notes
Goodness me, man if they made their cars as good as that they'd have gone out of business decades ago!😜🤪
My wife’s uncle was in bomb disposable during World War 2, he was killed during the transportation of the same size bomb on the back of a Lorry. She still has the letter which informed the family of his death and the circumstances.
Dam, that sucks bro. He ultimately made the greatest sacrifice a man can ever make. A Churchill quote might fit in here... _"Never in the history of warfare, has so much been owed, by so many, to so few"_ 🎩 Wife's uncle is one of the few
and I am one of the many,
that thank him for his service.
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Was any information ever provided about the location of his duties?
This bomb won't go off at all it's to old
@@ruebencover5795
Exactly a fuss over nothing and simply a training exercise.
Would have been worth mentioning how it was discovered by the home owner who struck it with his shovel, while digging out foundations for an extension! It could so easily have levelled that whole area!
At least they wouldn't have to shovel any more dirt for the foundations if it did go off in the ground...
I agree. Would like to know more about this part of the events and how they unfolded.
It won't level the whole area is it WILL NEVER GO OFF
It wasn't powerful enough to do that when it was new
@@kwlkid85you’re clearly misinformed, it would absolutely level an area regardless of age
people thinking is a waste of time when only last year a ww2 bomb was discovered and it exploded last year in Yarmouth, they are still live
Feel sorry for the guy driving the truck 😅
With his 11.50 per hour.. before tax.
Light duties in the RLC if your 32 tonne truck is only carrying one little bomb.
They should've hired a Tesla lol
@loadapish soldiers are paid set wages per annum bar danger pay ect, but unlike civvys can be required to work 24hrs a day 365 days a year so more like £4 per hr.
That truck driver must have been pretty depressed.
Why depressed ??
Nervous perhaps but most of these army folks are pretty matter of fact about real scary stuff, very brave really.
There were plans to blow it up in the garden, one resident said they were even told about the "serious damage to their house that would be caused"
Remote driving?
There was a ww2 bomb discovered up the road when building the new bridge in Yarmouth. That did go off. There must be so many more undiscovered underneath us.
And another reason not to garden.
😊...and I just thought my move from a top (4th) floor flat, to a ground floor flat with both front and back gardens, and no gardening tools, meant my lack of gardening was basically (not _just_ being unprepared / lazy?!) "being ecologically-oriented"... Now it's to avoid digging up 80+ yo WWI / WWII UXB's?! 🤔🥺😳🏴🖖
Any excuse. 😁
@@julianaylor4351
That's what Jac would've said!!
(Poor 'Jac Naylor'! R.I.P. H C Character) 🏴
Did the MOD really call it "the largest peacetime evacuation since World War II? Such short memories, as In fact, it is just the largest evacuation in Devon since 2021! Almost twice as many homes had to be evacuated in Exeter when a "Hermann", twice the size of this bomb, had to be detonated in situ.
Modern media mate, knowledge less, cheap liars
the "device", lol
The driver of that truck (a mobile bomb) is only earning around minimum wage 😐
Is that true? Seems like a specialist job to me.
The lowest paid members of the british military earn well over minimum. This guy would not be a newbie. Im sure he gets quite a bit
@@ExaltedwithFailno they don't
I would expect it would be someone who was trusted and respected enough. Not some random contractor. Let's be real.
@@ExaltedwithFailno they really don’t
Reminds me of about a decade ago when the Coasties had been having a rant about pyrotechnic expiry. I ended up discussing it with the country's most experienced ammunition and pyrotechnic expert. His position was that if that stuff really expired then the next time somebody found an unexploded German bomb under London, we could safely ignore it. A point well made!
It's certainly affected plans for a rail tunnel to Belfast, as all the excess ammo from WW2 was dumped there, not the mention a Liberty Ship, the Richard Montgomery, in the Thames Estuary.
Those damn Germans are amazing engineers even to this day. The fact that it still is a ticking bomb says a lot.
To be fair, we dont know if it is. Cant take chances tho right
Not so, it failed to work in the 1940's.
It's not ticking it's just unstable.
Don't worry, the Germans find far more of ours than we do of theirs
I live in Germany and we find hundreds of American and British ticking bombs every year also ! German engineering isn't that special 😅
They wouldn't be insured. It was dropped during wartime and insurers won't cover losses from acts of war. So that first woman was right to be concerned.
After 80 years the detonator would have completely corroded. There was no chance of it going off
Finally a news story I click on.
Plymouths potholes could of set it off
The driver must be very worried all the way, good job
No risk really.
Wouldn't have been able to travel more than 20 miles here in S Wales .Glad everyone is safe
The driver must of been bricking it
No.
Sounds like a training exercise to me... For the public.
Gosh,just thinking how the driver of the lorry felt while driving...😮
Will they show the detonation?
biggest balls ever driving that!!!!
Big balls to the truck driver
Lay there for 80 years without going off so i would've took my chances and stayed at home
like the one that exploded last year in Yarmouth. they are still live or it would be left
@@rosspearson2805because they tried to defuse it? That one?
@@MichaelJ44 yes that one. obviously the detonator and bomb was still live
Exactly a fuss over nothing
@@paulf2529 bombs randomly exploding is nothing. Ok.
These bombs are originally knock/drop proof and if the detonator fails they can't explode after decades the explosive separates from the stabilizing compound so they re-arm as a boobie trap and can explode at any time. It would have been safer removing them 50 years ago.
Wonder why people back then just left it, or mark where it landed. Surely it would've been noticeable the next morning.
Talk about melodramatic, even the women narrating is pathetically OTT 🤣🤣
Obviously the bomb disposal experts have worked closely with the local police.
No unnecessary risks were being taken, every reasonable safety precaution put in place in order to protect the public and those who live and work in the area.
Erring on the side of caution is the best way for all concerned.
Wonder how much they had to pay the driver...
Thankfully it wasn’t Bradford or Oldham 🙏
This badly effected my bus, and my bus goes to Tavistock
Bless the driver.
Where not Spitfires produced in Plymouth during the Blitz, Second World War 2?
What about the poor fish that are going to die 😢 .
😢I know ...but at least the gulls will get s free meal ...what about whales, dolphins etc? 😢
Watch out for them bloody speed bumps!
💥
The trident replacement incoming
Explosives become unstable over time and could go off randomly
Not that much of a problem. They have two loading stands by farm gates in Flanders, one for milk churns, the other for WW1 munitions - the Bomb Squad does a milk round! Munitions when I learned of it were upwards of 70 years old, much the same age as that bomb.
@JelMain until it goes bang
Not true regarding WW2 ordinance after 70 odd years - essentially inert. No record of this ever having happened in the UK despite there being potentially hundreds of thousands of UXBs in UK soil.
There are more 100%. They are from Battle of Britain. They dropped a lot of them everywhere the whole southern coast. Rains probably buried them a bit but they're still there!
I’ve seen bigger fireworks lmao
how didnt they find it when the house was originally built, ?
May have been Victorian Edwardian 1930s or something....These are typical the areas and the types of houses that did get bombed during the Second World War.......I was more wondering how it didn't get noticed during the cleanup.......
Imagine the condition of that Truck Drivers😅
He Probably was Praying to God all the time ,probably his family can't calm down either
Sure there are no more of those?
9th try.
“N_a_h_z_i b_o_m_b”? It wasn’t a “N_a_h_z_i b_o_m_b”. It was a German b_o_m_b.
exactly. tory bombs werent dropped on dresden
I did also comment on the standard of “journalism” in the video but someone didn’t like that.
Guessing it wouldn't be covered by insurance if it detonated but the government would do some sort of compensation scheme?
Apparently not, insurance won't pay out for act of war and govt stopped compensation a while ago for ww2 stuff i think
Yeah, Exeter university took Allianz (a German insurance company) to court but lost when a bomb was detonated there.
Yeah, Exeter university took Allianz (a German insurance company) to court but lost when a bomb was detonated there.
Mit a boom ,mit a bang, mit a boom.
The fuse and detonator were probably rusted up .What about the SS Montgomery in the Thames estuary, that is still being dismantled with about 1500 tons of ordinance on board.
an accidental ww2 bomb exploded last year they can still explode. both are still a risk
The SS Richard Montgomery to give it the remaining 'respect' due?! ...and the cordons & warning notices placed around it still don't deter thrill-seeking 'idiots' who want to risk all climbing aboard what's left of her into the 'above the waves' structures ...though apparently some of that was removed to try and prevent such behaviours, I think there's still enough remaining where people can access what's left of her.
I do wonder how large the blast zone would be if at some point she had her explosives triggered by wave action or something getting to close to her under the waterline...
Just how many people in that, and surrounding areas would be affected...? 🤔🥺😳☹️🏴🖖
2:03 "The largest peacetime evacuation since WW2", ah yes, world war 2, famously peaceful with lots of peacetime evacuations.
Lool like even after death herman goring is still having the last laugh 😂
Interesting to see army personnel with hands in their pockets and no headgear. Have standards dropped that low?
Doesnt the sea have any animals since we do it there rather on deserted land?
Well let’s be honest, if it goes bang, it probably won’t make Guz any worse
They cause heavy damage when they're dropped as carpet. A single one can only damage few buildings but it depends of the location of course.
Might do a few £k worth of improvements to Devon.
Now imagine how the Gazans feel
It was probably just a controversial opinion. Luckily the government stepped in
Kind of funny, that a german WW2 bomb is transported away by a german-developed (MAN) british army truck. Goes to show how much has changed since then...
I would hate to be the guys in that truck cos one big bump and u take our a big area and your self
Seems to me to be a fuss over nothing, a jerry can of petrol is more dangerous.
There is a much, much shorter route to the water - HMS Drake, Weston Mill Lake. Other bombs have been transported through North London to South end with no evacuations needed. Bomb looks to be a SC 25 size comparison with brick in photos, so not 500 kg. Media Exercise because of recent fups?
It was identified as a SC500. Measured at 80 inches (~200cm) long. And is it that hard to figure out why they aren't dragging a volatile explosive through a military dock?
@@thisfishiscoolashell Oh no a bomb in a military dock😀 Google map shows they might have to have moved a couple of ships. Compare the bomb in the garden with the door of the house. It is not that size.
@@thisfishiscoolashell The SC500 does measure 80 inches but that's including the fins and the bomb in question doesn't have any😅
@@thisfishiscoolashell Amatol safe, avoid heat and shock.
@@highlandcow4765 "Safe" but there is a risk that it goes off while in transport. To minimize shock, maybe it's best they use a nice smooth slipway instead of dropping it into Weston Mill.
How it possible 1 can be more than 1
there are loads between england/france ww1/ww2 it is taken seriously because they can explode a unknown ww2 bomb exploded last year in a river in england
A bigger one?
what a show for a little firecracker!
Nothing major good lord what a fuss. 😮
unless it explodes as they have done recently last year i believe was the last ww2 bomb to explode on its discovery in Yarmouth
@@rosspearson2805 That was essentially incompetence. They fired a disruptor into it which was meant to destroy the fuse but got it wrong and it went off. It did not detonate of its own accord.
to the sea? r u fukin mad.
Wait has the bomb been detonated yet
No idea
Nah they took it out to sea and just let it float off
@@m33446 They'll never do that! They'll destroy it at some secured area.
A " Bomb" ....yes...i believe
Is it going to Ukraine?
Not exactly an atom bomb and to evacuate half the city seems a bit extreme, health & Safety gone mad again.
I live in Keyham
Sorry to hear that.
Yeah this just about sums up the British arm forces. This is about as tense operation as listening to this report. Move on… next…
Demilitarized success !!!!
More sky drama .
It could've killed people
Someone made the evacuation area much larger then it needed to be. They didnt want to just take the shortest route and toss it off of any old dock, huh? _Lord knows what clandestine activities ran parallel with that potato bomb_ 😂
Probably sell it to Zelenskyy
😂😂
Hitler's trying to get the last word ... 💣
Russia obvisouly did this.
Daddy: bomb!
Baby: burp
We're the streets deserted before they knew about the bomb or is that a Plymouth thing?
Meanwhile in ukraine ...
Soz from Germany
It's a very old bomb bet it wouldn't even smell as bad as a stink bomb
Look up what happened in Exeter a few years ago. Took out several buildings
@@aidy6000 wow
@@aidy6000 I've dug up old bombs before and just chuck the things 🙄
Sky always add some bullshit to make the story more interesting
And we forgave the germans to occupied by them by the form of the eu wow
Im just here for "Save the whale's" bollox!
Ohhh such a panic 😂. Wtf 😂
Who s the truck driver?😂
a mad lad
Those women are and sound completely thick
Notice how care4calias not out offering whitefilk tea and blankets
Hot Fuzz 💣
Trumps or pootin fault.,well...dont they get tbe blame on everything?
Device 😂😂😂😂. They call it a device . This ain’t decide it’s a devastating B.O.M.B
other people may know when and how that bomb got there but i don't and i didn't hear anything explaining it... WWII... which attack?...
Well during WW2 they dropped a lot of bombs in sorties (both sides) it's estimated about 10% didn't explode... this particular bomb buried itself in the ground, the whole area would've been chaotic after an attack/other explosions/fires/victims being needed to be dealt with and it wouldn't have been obvious. Most coastal ports/large cities etc were targets and these sort of UXBs and sea mines surface every now and then.