Bomb found at my hotel (2 Viewers)

[baarbogast]

I’m on holiday in Koln Germany. I just back from site seeing and my hotel is surrounded by police. A bus is coming to take us to a different place. When I know more I will let you know.

 

[Zardnok]

I’m on holiday in Koln Germany. I just back from site seeing and my hotel is surrounded by police. A bus is coming to take us to a different place. When I know more I will let you know.

YIKES! I am so very glad they found it before it exploded and you are safe.

 

[baarbogast]

YIKES! I am so very glad they found it before it exploded and you are safe.

This is a WWII bomb, I was thinking it was a little newer.

 

[TenTwo]

I’ve been to Koln is a beautiful city and that cathedral is incredible. Hopefully the bomb threat is just a hoax. Stay safe!

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

This is a WWII bomb, I was thinking it was a little newer.

How old is your hotel?

PS - Glad you’re safe

 

[baarbogast]

I’ve been to Koln is a beautiful city and that cathedral is incredible. Hopefully the bomb threat is just a hoax. Stay safe!

Definitely not a hoax, nor is it terrorism.

 

[baarbogast]

How old is your hotel?

PS - Glad you’re safe

My hotel is fairly new, less than 20 years. Apparently, it’s in the Rhine close to where River cruise boards

 

[baarbogast]

The Hauptbahnhof has been evacuated also. I wonder how big it is and if it has friends close by.

 

[Eeyore]

 

[TenTwo]

Definitely not a hoax, nor is it terrorism.

How is a threat of a bomb not an act of terror?

 

[Sailorsaint]

How is a threat of a bomb not an act of terror?

I think it was an unexploded ordnance from WWII.

 

[Saintman2884]

I’ve been to Koln is a beautiful city and that cathedral is incredible. Hopefully the bomb threat is just a hoax. Stay safe!

Due to the intense, vicious Allied air-bombing campaign designed by British Air Force general Arthur "Whirlwind" Harris to carpet-bomb German cities, and civilian sites as well as military targets like Cologne, particularly Berlin, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Munich, it wouldn't surprise me if their werent other leftover WWII-era unexploded bombs or munitions all over Germany in downtown metro areas, ordinary Germans back yards, businesses, parking lots, sewers, open fields in the countryside especially in more rural areas like Bavaria and Baden. Barbogast, you should tell them how Allied bombers sort of deliberately avoided bombing and destroying the medieval Cologne Cathedral during WWII Allied fire-bombings from late 1942-1945 while most other sections of the city, like other major German cities, were bombed almost to pre-industrial levels.

It's a more scattered example of the unknowable, ungodly amount of bombs, explosives, ordinances from WWI that remain live and unexploded in northeastern France, Flanders region of Belgium that have made the region still one of the most dangerous, risky to live in, over 100 years after the end of WWI. Every year, some farmers or rural French, Belgian civilians still get killed accidentally from undiscovered bombs, grenades, or munitions in areas like Yrpres, Flanders, Passcendale, Amiens, and German, French, and Belgian UN munitions explosive experts detonate tons of unexploded bombs every year and will continue to for likely the next century or so..

 

[Saintman2884]

I think it was an unexploded ordnance from WWII.

Sailor, the stories I could tell you and others about how many untold tons of WWII-era bombs, ordinances, and explosives still remain live and wired all over many different varied places in German cities, backyards, countryside, metro areas, parking lots?

Most Americans arent truly aware or prescient of the facts that it took Germany 40 full years after WWII to be totally reconstructed, and in the former GDR, their still large sections of pre-WWII infrastructure, development that haven't been rebuilt and probably never will be, almost 80 years later.

 

[Zack Lee]

possibly some quack collector? Maybe somebody was thinking of it as the souvenir Kind and not the exploding kind?

Also unnerving but would explain why he doesn’t think it’s an act of terror.

 

[Saintman2884]

possibly some quack collector? Maybe somebody was thinking of it as the souvenir Kind and not the exploding kind?

Also unnerving but would explain why he doesn’t think it’s an act of terror.

It's plausible until you really begin thinking about the tricky, extremely dangerous, and frankly stupid logistics behind some quack WWII rare-arms collector (who's also somehow some IED expert or has some experience handling extremely sensitive bomb ordinances) that found this unexploded, near-80 year old bomb and somehow, moved it to try and sell it or set if off somewhere? Like I said, whether its 75-80 year-old bombs, explosives, and munitions scattered all over various, disparate regions, sections of German cities, public parks, supermarkets, parking lots, strasses (streets), stadts, platzs, as well as millions of bombs, grenades, ordinances still remain undiscovered, unearthed, and perhaps will continue to kill or maim farmers, rural civilians and UN, EU bomb/IED explosion experts living in northeastern France, parts of western Belgium, Flanders region for decades to come.

There's a far greater chance this idiot quack collector would blow himself (and other unfortunates) who happened to be in his vicinity foraging, finding and analyzing unexploded, highly unstable live munitions that failed to be explode after being dropped from Allied bombers 80 years ago