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World War Two bomb kills seven in Bangkok
BBC ^ | 4/2/14 | Sunaina Gulati

Posted on 04/02/2014 7:16:14 PM PDT by fso301

A suspected World War Two bomb has exploded in a Bangkok scrap yard, killing at least seven people and injuring 19.

Workers were using a blow-torch to take the bomb apart and detonated it in the process, officials say.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bangkok; bomb; darwinaward; heyletswatchthis; thailand; theybloweduprealgood; torchbombboomduh; uxo; worldwar2; worldwarii; wwii
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To: fso301

Relax, I know what I’m . . .


41 posted on 04/02/2014 8:48:33 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: fso301; SkyDancer

About a year ago an expert Civil War collector was killed in Virginia.

He was trying to defuse some kind of ordnance, but I can’t recall what kind.

There weren’t that many things that blew up in the Civil War, were there?

A few mortars, a few artillery shells, mines maybe?


42 posted on 04/02/2014 9:30:30 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: fso301
500 lb bomb


43 posted on 04/02/2014 10:07:32 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: fso301

Here is a video of bomb squad guy in Thailand using an old truck tire to contain the explosion as he pokes the bomb with a long pole!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWVAXf0rhs

LOL! Get er done Dumrong.


44 posted on 04/03/2014 12:10:37 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: SkyDancer
Even better was the French farmer that discovered 3 TONS of liquid mustard gas abandoned in a sealed WW1 German bunker. The farmer's tractor broke a hole in its roof and the farmer died of the released toxic fumes.

EOD was called and, after much consultation, carefully neutralized the solution that was nearly three feet deep on the bunker's floor. Heat was a major byproduct of the neutralization process. Extra care was taken to prevent a fire from starting as result of the neutralization process.

Had a fire started, the smoke would have been contaminated with liquid mustard gas compounds and the casualty threat to the local population dramatically increased. Neutralization was completed, but what to do about all that liquid in the bottom of the bunker? The decision was to reseal the bunker and permanently cordon off the site (including the bunker itself). This contaminated area (and its bunker) remain a 'no go' zone to this day.

45 posted on 04/03/2014 12:46:19 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: fso301

They have rednecks in Bangkok? Whodathunkit!


46 posted on 04/03/2014 2:27:06 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Uncle Lonny
Here is a video of bomb squad guy in Thailand using an old truck tire to contain the explosion as he pokes the bomb with a long pole!

Wow! I expected the video would end with them discovering that the package was harmless and contained a nice present that had been ruined. Wasn't expecting a real bomb.

47 posted on 04/03/2014 2:53:11 AM PDT by fso301
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To: zeestephen; SkyDancer
About a year ago an expert Civil War collector was killed in Virginia. He was trying to defuse some kind of ordnance

I remember that. There were a few FR threads about it.

48 posted on 04/03/2014 2:56:53 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

I wasn’t expecting him to Chuck it. Why didn’t he poke it some more?
He wasn’t drunk enough, but it still blowed up real good.


49 posted on 04/03/2014 3:48:49 AM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: fso301

Wanna bet they hammered on it a while before Bubba suggest he use his blow torch on it? Here, hold my sake.


50 posted on 04/03/2014 3:57:29 AM PDT by bgill
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To: fso301

His name was Sam White. I knew him for years.

Part of his CW relic business was deactivating (defusing is not an accurate term for what he did) excavated Civil War ordnance. He probably had deactivated thousands of shells over the years without incident.

Nobody knows for sure exactly what happened on the day he was killed but I surmise that he may have been drilling a shell that possibly was an experimental type (two powder cavities instead of one) and after drilling one hole successfully and supposedly neutralizing the black powder, he drilled the second hole (normally the safe one) with a hand drill and broke through into a dry intact second charge, detonating it.


51 posted on 04/03/2014 4:13:25 AM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: SkyDancer

There are still huge numbers of unexplored shells in Flanders. Occasionally some poor farmer hits one


52 posted on 04/03/2014 4:25:27 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: zeestephen

Civil war artillery shells were actually fused bombs in many cases. Firing the cannon also lit the fuse which if timed right caused the round to explode on or near the target

Naturally there were many duds and the guy in Virginia tinkered with one


53 posted on 04/03/2014 4:30:10 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: fso301

“You drew the short straw, Kwon! YOU use the torch, while we stand safely six feet away and watch.”


54 posted on 04/03/2014 4:34:47 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Farmer Dean
Taiwan's collective IQ just went up a few points.
55 posted on 04/03/2014 11:42:50 AM PDT by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

He actually claimed, on his web page, to have defused more than 500 pieces of Civil War ordnance.

Either he was boasting, or his luck ran out.


56 posted on 04/03/2014 2:09:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: metalurgist

reclaiming the metal and filler from the ‘American War’leftovers is a way of life for some folks.


57 posted on 04/03/2014 10:39:26 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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