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Originally Posted by LWJ

We had a bag of old dynamite on the farm. Salem Bomb squad came out and detonated on site. That is SOP.

Sad.

Which makes sense in many circumstances, out in the middle of no where, with enough explosives to be a problem, then perfect, detonate in place.

Relatively safe to transport explosives in a place where they could potentially cause a lot of damage, probably better to move them and detonate someplace safe.

What's crazy is when they find WWII bombs in the middle of a city in Europe somewhere.

Last year a 2000lb bomb was detonated in Cologne.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-large-wwii-bomb-detonated-in-cologne/a-70474222
2024

Authorities in Cologne detonated a 1-ton US bomb from World War II after only defusing one of its two fuses. The city said it was the most complex bomb disposal operation since 1945 as several hospitals are nearby.

The city had also warned shortly before the detonation that even if everything went as planned, "a muffled bang will be discernible to the public, even beyond the 500-meter (roughly 550-yard) at-risk area."

After warning that they had not been able to defuse the bomb safely, a delay followed as trucks then brought tons of sand to the site to prepare for the controlled detonation.

The bomb was unearthed two days earlier during excavations at a construction site for a new medical facility in the eastern district of Merheim.

^that^ seems like a big bomb, 1 ton, until you see the article below from last month

June 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/europe/cologne-ww2-bomb-evacuation-intl

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs.

The American bombs – two 20-ton weapons and another that weighs 10 tons – were found in a shipyard on Monday, the city said, causing a huge “danger zone” to be sealed off on Wednesday morning.

50 tons of bomb! Holy Sheiße!