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One of several advantages for spending the summer with the Aged Parents in Bamberg: I didn't have to get evacuated on Tuesday night when a World War II bomb had to be blown up (as it couldn't get deactivated) in Schwabing, the Munich quarter where I live. The explosion was captured in the vid below; our paper today remind us that 4,.000, of these simultanously were the avarage during the war nights when Munich got bombed. What I wonder is: given we're still dealing with leftover bombs from WWII more then 70 years later (and this was by no means the first time something like this happened in the city where I usually live; I remember sitting in a train when they told us we couldn't leave the Munich railway station because a WWII bomb had been found and had to be secured first), how long will our descendants have to deal with leftover weapons from today?

In case the embedding doesn't work, the vid is here.

Sprengung der Fliegerbombe / Schwabing, München / 28.8.2012 from Simon Aschenbrenner on Vimeo.