World War II bomb' found in city


Coventry city centre sealed off after WWII bomb alert
The city was expected to be sealed off throughout the night
Parts of Coventry city centre have been closed off after what is believed to be an unexploded World War II bomb was unearthed on a building site.

It was found at the Belgrade Plaza development in Upper Well Street. Police said the device seemed genuine but it was not clear if it was live.

Eight junctions of the ring road were shut and offices evacuated.

The city will remain closed through the night as explosives teams attempt to defuse it.

Exits remain open

The Coventry Evening Telegraph offices and Belgrade Theatre were also evacuated.

A matinee performance of In The Club was cancelled and police have maintained a 500m cordon from the building site.

The ring road is closed to traffic anti-clockwise between junctions one and eight, which take traffic into the city centre.

Exits out of the city centre from the ring road remain open.

Explosives experts were called to the scene to examine the bomb and decide on how best to deal with it, a police spokesman added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventr...ire/7292097.stm

This is where I live at the moment, so far we've had;

Huge fire around the corner at a high school
Our microwave exploding in the kitchen
A murder around the corner
An attempted kidnapping of a student around the side of our halls
An Earthquake
A woman been randomly attacked by some strange guy in the street (I was one of those who stayed around to keep her safe)
Now a bomb....

This city is insane and last year they had a suicide from Priory Hall, some guy walked in and jumped...

Oh my i'd be finding someplace else to live girly. All of that is scarey stuff. Now a bomb as well. I hope it wasn't a live one. Well i hope everything settles for you. Though i'd be weary to live there.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Blazing Tiger @ Mar 13 2008, 02:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>It's a dangerous place but I love it here, never been happier, you just have to remember not to go out alone at night, don't go near the road alongside the halls I live in and my house next year I have to pass through a really rough area to get to uni, thats going to be fun getting to training and back lol

Sounds like a really dangerous place to live, but if you like it there, it doesn't really matter does it?
It must be scary thoughs.

Was the bomb still live when they found it? It would be interesting because if they could disarm it without having to set it off it would make a great addition to a WWII museum somewhere...

Not too long ago there was a grenade found in the United States from WWII, but they set it off instead of trying to disarm it...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheMysticWolf @ Mar 13 2008, 03:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>I have no idea whats going on, I wont find out unless someone has info since I have lessons from 12-6 today without a break so I can't go into the city center to see whats going on.

Well I hope that whatever happens everything turns out okay. This is your hometown in England or something? Where exactly, if I may ask? The article didn't exactly explain that...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheMysticWolf @ Mar 14 2008, 01:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>Not my hometown but I live in Coventry now since I go to uni here. It happened just the other side of the city center. I just missed all the fuss in the city center yesterday with everyone been told to leave, I was back in the Halls and only found out about it when my flatmates arrived back and told me what was going on.

Wow...that's pretty crazy! I hope everything over there turns out alright.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheMysticWolf @ Mar 14 2008, 02:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>I think its gone now, no big deal apart from the whole city center been closed off, lucky for us Sainsburies wasn't in the middle so we could still get food.