Marrow escape: report of wartime bomb in Germany leads to courgette discovery Marrow escape: report of wartime bomb in Germany leads to courgette discovery
Is this one for this thread - http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/fake-news.69087/page-4#post-766923 If Mods read this can we not open these up again - i.e. current affairs forum ??? TD
Not only vegetables! "Police raided a house in south west Sydney recently and found an object they suspected of being a bomb. But it wasn’t until a major police station had been evacuated, five police officers had been taken to hospital, and a man was arrested amid terrorism fears, that the small device was found to be nothing more than a homemade sex toy." Sex Toy Mistaken for Bomb
Don't forget that SOE devised many guises for bombs as coal,logs of wood and dead rats etc....the latter, it was thought, would be disposed of by throwing into furnaces such as railway fireboxes. Cow flop apparently was also used to disguise an explosive charge but I cannot find an official reference.
I would think that this thread would be closely related to the anti personal bombs which were left behind for the unwary to pick up as souvenirs of an engagement......make them attractive or useful enough and the enemy will frequently be inquisitive sufficient to be caught out by a booby trap,often with a fatal outcome. Overall,it's easy to understand the reaction of the authorities in responding as they do as in these days of terrorism,the initiative always lies with them and the authorities have to be alert to it.
There are many threads with SOE, but on a quick review none appeared to cover - except this one - their ingenious use of explosives. So here, thanks to a friend, is a current brief article on explosive coal: When WWII Spies Created Explosive Coal To Fight the Third Reich Which points to much more detailed account: SOE Sabotage – Explosive Coal This includes a link to a short film, it didn't work well, this link does work:
