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#3221238 22-Apr-2024 08:47

Something similar happened to a friend of mine a while ago:

https://sunlive.co.nz/news/144130-mortar-round-detonated-welcome-bay.html

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#3221333 22-Apr-2024 12:05

johno1234:
I found it! Barrier circle set up – houses in Lietzen must be evacuated

Note the fine print says "archive photo" ; )

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#3221492 22-Apr-2024 15:11

kingdragonfly: Not even reported in the news, that I can find.

Is it a non-event, just like mass shootings in the US?

No, not a non-event. But take a photo when the area is closed. 😉

These „thingies“ are everywhere, even at my former workplace.

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#3221499 22-Apr-2024 15:57

neb:

Tinkerisk: But we don't have a Hamburg Man ... at least not yet. 😉

You've got your southerners though, anyone with expressions like "basst sho afs grobste" (approx. "she'll be right") shouldn't be trusted around an unexploded bomb.

How do the Bavarians compare with the Easterners, at least the ones outside of Berlin?

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#3221536 22-Apr-2024 17:37

gzt:
johno1234:

I found it! Barrier circle set up – houses in Lietzen must be evacuated

Note the fine print says "archive photo" ; )

Who knows, apparently there's potential for a future New Zealand Man? Even if it's just a famous (last) photo and not a man with a hammer and tow chain? 😉

I thought it would be self-explanatory that, despite all (including my) curiosity, you can't just go there - especially not with a spade (that is there for size comparison) and a load chain, which has obviously already been installed by the explosive ordnance disposal service. 😆

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#3221647 23-Apr-2024 01:12

deepred:
How do the Bavarians compare with the Easterners, at least the ones outside of Berlin?

Ask a Bavarian and find out.

Just make sure you've put your affairs in order first.

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#3221651 23-Apr-2024 05:51

neb:
deepred:

How do the Bavarians compare with the Easterners, at least the ones outside of Berlin?

Ask a Bavarian and find out.

Just make sure you've put your affairs in order first.

😄👍

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#3222303 24-Apr-2024 13:44

Et tu, Tesla?

Tesla driver changes tune following tragic crash

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#3222384 24-Apr-2024 15:37

A month or so ago I found a bunch of twist-off wine bottle caps sitting on the front verge outside my house. Today there's a fresh set there.

It's rubbish day, and I can only assume that one of the neighbours put the (non-recyclable) caps in their recycling, and the collectors just... decided to turn them into litter.

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#3222803 25-Apr-2024 14:25

One for ANZAC day.

Attendees at New Plymouth’s Anzac Day dawn service lift car by hand
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/attendees-at-new-plymouths-anzac-day-dawn-service-lift-car-by-hand/L5HCYV7I7NBWLPDPHWUZDRSV5Y/

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Eventually, a group of about 15 gathered around the 2009 Mitsubishi hatchback, lifted it and moved the car a couple of metres away.

Chard told RNZ the car had been parked in the “worst possible place.
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Chard said the car could not have been parked by accident there, because cones had been set up overnight to block the street.

“It seems that somebody had decided that they were going to move the cone, park their car, so that when we turned up at 4.45 [am], there’s a car parked right in the middle of the parade.
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#3222913 25-Apr-2024 17:10

Behodar:

A month or so ago I found a bunch of twist-off wine bottle caps sitting on the front verge outside my house. Today there's a fresh set there.

It's rubbish day, and I can only assume that one of the neighbours put the (non-recyclable) caps in their recycling, and the collectors just... decided to turn them into litter.

I would have thought the standard thing to do for the collectors was to just not empty the bin at all?

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#3222916 25-Apr-2024 17:11

Journeyman:

Behodar:

A month or so ago I found a bunch of twist-off wine bottle caps sitting on the front verge outside my house. Today there's a fresh set there.

It's rubbish day, and I can only assume that one of the neighbours put the (non-recyclable) caps in their recycling, and the collectors just... decided to turn them into litter.

I would have thought the standard thing to do for the collectors was to just not empty the bin at all?

Generally, yeah. Or perhaps to put the caps back in the bin after emptying it.

Perhaps the neighbour noticed the caps were still in the bin, and dumped them back onto the grass?

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#3222923 25-Apr-2024 17:39

The bottles still have a the metal collar of the cap still on the bottle. Whatever process for separating this from the glass would catch the caps. I'm not sure what removing the caps achieves.

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#3222924 25-Apr-2024 17:40

SomeoneSomewhere:

Perhaps the neighbour noticed the caps were still in the bin, and dumped them back onto the grass?

The physical bin is still sitting out there, and the neighbour typically leaves it there for 2-3 days.

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#3222943 25-Apr-2024 20:45

Christian school's pastor cancels Autism Awareness Week, calling it "demonic"

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