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Berlin's main airport shut down after World War II bomb found by construction workers
Washington Examiner ^
| 4-7-10
| Staff
Posted on 04/07/2010 10:20:04 AM PDT by mlizzy
BERLIN — German authorities have shut down Berlin's main international airport after construction workers discovered a World War II bomb there. A police spokesman told The Associated Press on Wednesday the bomb's weight is estimated at a quarter ton. Police said no planes are allowed to land or take off from Tegel airport until experts manage to defuse the bomb. Police are blocking all access roads. Local media reported the airport would remain closed until the evening, forcing the cancellation or diversion of dozens of flights.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airport; berlin; bomb; germany; wwii
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To: dfwgator
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Germans? --
"Pearl Harbor bombed by the Germans" is a famous line by John Belushi, in the movie "Being There."
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posted on
04/07/2010 10:58:59 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: mlizzy
Could someone please explain to me how this device is suddenly dangerous, yet planes have been taking off and landing over it for nearly 70 years? The safety zone around a 500lb bomb blast is about 125 meters. Put up some yellow tape and keep flying.
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posted on
04/07/2010 10:59:54 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(The Last of the Bohicans!)
To: BudgieRamone
“That’s two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads.”
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:01:53 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:03:32 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Cboldt
LOL
Still... he asked. LOL
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:04:19 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: Cboldt
"Pearl Harbor bombed by the Germans" is a famous line by John Belushi, in the movie "Being There." I thought it was "Animal House".
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:07:04 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: VeniVidiVici
I don't have a clue. What is interesting is that at Schonefeld (soon to be Brandenberg International Airport) they are digging like mad. . . but no bombs pulled up to date!!
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:07:13 AM PDT
by
lowbuck
(The Blue Card (American passport): Don't leave home without it!!)
To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:07:22 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Izzy Dunne
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I thought it was "Animal House". --
My naming a Sellers movie as containing a Belushi line was a deliberate parallel to Belushi's Germans/Japs joke.
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:09:38 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Cboldt
Nnnnnnnnnneyoooooow!
That was the sound of a joke going over my head.
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:13:56 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: BudgieRamone
What a great show. Love Manuel. He’s from Barcelona. Basil: “You can train a monkey to do that.”
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:14:49 AM PDT
by
SamiGirl
To: mlizzy
Sounds like over reaction to me, the bomb hit the ground, didn’t go off, lay there for over 65 years with construction going on all around it, airplanes much heavier than existed in those days frolicking in it’s general area all these years, corrosion, water leakage, then some goober rips it out of the ground with a backhoe! I’m no expert, but I don’t think it would explode even if Obama signed an executive order or it to.
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:18:42 AM PDT
by
Boiling point
(Beck / Palin 2012)
To: mlizzy
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:36:15 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:41:55 AM PDT
by
BBell
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The bomb found yesterday was a German one with a Soviet made detonator.
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:47:26 AM PDT
by
NCjim
("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
How do they know it was an American Bomb? The Brits dropped a lot of tonnage and were a lot more indiscriminate about where. The typical British bombs looked like oil drums-- no fins or streamlining, just lowest-cost tickets to hell. They dropped at night so there was no effort toward precision bombing on most raids.
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posted on
04/07/2010 11:49:30 AM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Boiling point
Want to bet your life on it?
Shells from the Civil War are still dangerous.
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posted on
04/07/2010 12:02:15 PM PDT
by
IMR 4350
To: Borges
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posted on
04/07/2010 1:21:53 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
04/07/2010 2:34:00 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Free Men will always be armed with the Truth.)
To: smokingfrog
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