Um.

[selenak]

On the road again, but unknowingly very lucky to be so. Here I was, sitting in my train to Braunschweig when suddenly I get call on my mobile phone, and the Agent Parent asks, worriedly, whether I "made it out of Munich". Why yes, I replied, and learned there was a World War Two bomb found near the main railway station about half an hour after my train left.

Now. I am so often at that railway station, along side with millions of people, that the thought of a bomb which was there for more then 60 years is somewhat disconcerting, to tell the truth. It also makes me wonder: if an American WWII splinter bomb can make it into the new millennium, how long will people be tripping over the nuclear leftovers from the Cold War?

Comments

[wychwood]

Gosh! I'm glad you're ok. It is worrying how these things can be totally lost for so long and suddenly reappear, as lethal as ever. Like landmines. The war might be decades over, but the landmines don't know, and they'll still kill you if you make a misstep.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes. And our continent is full of them (as is Africa, of course)....

Your fair city

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Well, first, I'm glad you got out all right. Second, I'm pretending I didn't just watch the Spooks episode where MI5 used "unexploded world war ii bomb" as a cover story for something sinister. Third, I went to CNN.com to see if I could find an English-language version of the story, and the first hit I came up with on "Munich" was Sex industry awaits World Cup boom (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/04/24/germany.cup.ap/index.html). I'm sure this says more about CNN than it does about Munich.

Happy travels!

Re: Your fair city

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Nah, we stand by our prostitutes.*g* Seriously, it was a "there by the grace..." kind of feeling. Not just about me - so many people were so very lucky, because that's one of the most populated areas of the city.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeep!! That's a little more excitement than anybody needs. You'd think sixty one years after the war ended, you'd stop having to worry about unexploded bombs.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Quite. I'm also glad that someone was around who could disarm it; I imagine today's experts usually are versed in modern varieties, not in something that was used so many decades ago...

[cordelianne.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear you're okay. That sounds really unsettling.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It was one scary WHAT IF. But with a happy ending, as nothing happened. (Well, other than the entire area being closed down till they disarmed the bomb.) Which is great, and never to be taken for granted.