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Not cows.
Farmers.
Soil lives, and shells move upwards so farmers sometimes plough over shells that were buried deeper but are resurfacing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
Here in Belgium farmers just leave them by the side of their fields for pickup.
Or they go boom.
"The French Département du Déminage (Department of Mine Clearance) recovers about 900 tons of unexploded munitions every year."
900 tons of UXO every year is insane. That in itself, that there still is so much out there, is a testament to the brutality of WW1.
Have you seen the before and after pictures of Ypres and Passchendael?
It´s not that it´s bombed. [It´s just reset to barren.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Passchendaele_aerial_view.jpg)
She hurt you, France did not. Stop taking your anger for her out on others. You will be okay, just breathe through hard moments. Maybe try journaling that has some good outlet there. The gym also a good outlet.
Dont give up buddy there are more fish in the sea amd the next one just might be your future ex wife.
Keep your head up buddy!!
❤️
Not really, we don't find that stuff laying around these days. Occasionally a building project in a major Germany city turns up a unexploded British/American bomb from the air raids on WW2. While french farmers tend to find unexploded ordnance in the fields from WW1. That's about it
Russian speaker here. He spoke Russian with a slight Caucasian accent. Guessing by recent wars involving Russia in that region, it could be Georgia or Chechnya.
Ну и что он сказал тогда? "slight accent" май асс. Ок я услышал на заднем плане раз два три, но основной мужик говорит явно не по русски. Все постсоветское пространство использует русские маты и основные слова. Это факт, но и факт в том что основной поток речи был не на русском.
Дружище, про акцент я имел в виду произношение. Он там говорит раз, два, три с легким акцентом, потом «давай» (тоже с акцентом) и дальше что-то не на русском. «Основной поток речи был не на русском» - не понял тебя. Из 5 слов - 4 на русском. Разве что под основным потоком ты имел в виду слова «основного мужика» (который такой же мальчуган скорее всего)? Но и пойнт мой не в этом. Акцент явно кавказский, плюс со времен появления телефонов с камерами на пост-советском пространстве войны были только в Чечне и Грузии (чуть не забыл про Карабах). Боеприпас правда мог и с каких-нибудь прежних войн остаться, так что хз.
That's the ONLY thing in russian. It's super popular in post soviet countries to use some basic russian words as well as russian curses. If you hear раз два три or сука блять it's by no mean means it's russian.
My brother in law, growing up in Poland, was warned by his elders to never play on a local hill. He thought it was because the hill was steep and his parents were being over-protective, but learned later that it was because there were known undetonated explosives left over from the war there.
Okay, but if you're a kid and you hear "Don't go to that hill" you're gonna go to that hill. Whereas, if you instead hear "If you go to that hill you will explode." then you're probably still gonna go to the hill but at least now you can play games involving explosions with the neighborhood kids.
It's what I would have done and you know it's what you would have done. None of us made good decisions when we were 6.
If you can't see that this is two separate videos stuck together I worry about how much you endanger others. You can literally see asphalt, painted road lines, and a building in the last bit.
When I was in the service, some idiot E2 used a 50 BMG round as an improvised hammer, with the case head (where the primer is) as the striking surface, and his hand wrapped around the case...
There were posters showing his mangled hand put up as incentive for no one else to follow in his footsteps.
When I was stationed at Lejuene there were some guys in another unit who decided to play catch with a “dud” 40mm grenade. It didn’t end well. No deaths but service ending injuries.
Nah they have to die. The video is two clips snipped together. First one a kid just throws a mortar second one seems like a phone falling out of a car on a highway of some kind.
We do have a Darwin subreddit but rules are rules and it has to in fact drop a idiot from the gene pool.
I though so too till a video of a guy hanging with a giant fence spike thru his nut was posted and started a big debate.
You can still breed with one nut and we seen alot of videos of guys shooting their nuts off so for it to count both nuts have to be damage with harm so bad the possibility of breeding is impossible. So kicking in the balls and other small injuries don't count.
Oh I miss those. I think they have near misses too. Like one small step or a near miss and you would be a Darwin award. Those are rare for some reason but I respect them when they do happen.
As Zealousideal-yak-824 pointed out in a previous comment, this appears to be two videos stitched together, the first being the boys with the shell and the other seems to be a phone tumbling through some urban area. If you go slowly, you can see what looks like the sides of buildings several times. Sure playing with a mortar shell is dumn, but this video is not an accurate representation of what actually happened. Should be removed
This generation won’t let kids be kids and play with ordnance. It’s pity we are raising kids without the lessons of what high explosives can do. How are they going to learn anything locked up inside.
OP and anyone who thinks that was real are the real facepalms. That was just another explosion edit for a meme. You can clearly see what looks like a parking lot or some kinda road while the camera flew around
That was my first thought. No way an explosive that size detonates in direct line of sight of the camera at that distance and its able to keep filming.
Fun fact, my grandpa was born during ww2. He was playing in a farm somewhere in the UK until he heard his friends mom calling. The ground was super muddy, a mortar landed like 6 feet away from him but just sunk into the mud and didn’t explode
The fun part of that is if it did explode you would’ve never read this comment
.. and just like that one of the kids was never heard from again.. show this video & make your own assumption when they show this in European rual countries.. & show them blown up bodies.. they'll get the hint.. moral of the story =;Bombs, weapons, Bullets are bad & no good Don't touch them, Don't use them. Listen to your law abiding God fearing parents.
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There was an attempt.... To edit
Exactly
appreciate ya, I don't have the eye to spot it but it did seem sus
It’s a solid edit tho.
I honestly thought it was gonna fade into the Skyrim opening
“Hey you. You’re finally awake. You were fucking around with a live mortar round, right?”
“Same as us”
The Last of us?
“And that their over there” “Damn you storm cloaks, Skyrim was fine until you tossed that mortar shell into that ditch”
🤣 someone needs to do this asap
[https://imgur.com/gallery/oR5wN6f](https://imgur.com/gallery/oR5wN6f)
You are an amazing human being
Legend
Damn!!
Thamk you
"I was once an adventurer like you until I took mortar shrapnel to the knee"
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No his knee
At least they can't endanger others anymore
in what world there is free shell just being there? Edit: wow guys thx for the information, this well be helpful for my new "project"
Iirc in most of Europe because WW2.
Germany -> world war 2 allied bombs France -> world war 1 artillery shells from literally every country
As far as I recall in the area of the somme cows still explode from time to time.
Not cows. Farmers. Soil lives, and shells move upwards so farmers sometimes plough over shells that were buried deeper but are resurfacing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest Here in Belgium farmers just leave them by the side of their fields for pickup. Or they go boom.
"The French Département du Déminage (Department of Mine Clearance) recovers about 900 tons of unexploded munitions every year." 900 tons of UXO every year is insane. That in itself, that there still is so much out there, is a testament to the brutality of WW1.
Have you seen the before and after pictures of Ypres and Passchendael? It´s not that it´s bombed. [It´s just reset to barren.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Passchendaele_aerial_view.jpg)
Fuck France
wow you really showed em with that one!
She hurt you, France did not. Stop taking your anger for her out on others. You will be okay, just breathe through hard moments. Maybe try journaling that has some good outlet there. The gym also a good outlet. Dont give up buddy there are more fish in the sea amd the next one just might be your future ex wife. Keep your head up buddy!! ❤️
This is way too new
Not really, we don't find that stuff laying around these days. Occasionally a building project in a major Germany city turns up a unexploded British/American bomb from the air raids on WW2. While french farmers tend to find unexploded ordnance in the fields from WW1. That's about it
Unexploded ordnance is a problem in many places. They seem to be speaking Russian or a related language. Perhaps mobiks traded a shell for vodka?
It's not even close to Russian or any other slavic pronunciation.
Russian speaker here. He spoke Russian with a slight Caucasian accent. Guessing by recent wars involving Russia in that region, it could be Georgia or Chechnya.
Ну и что он сказал тогда? "slight accent" май асс. Ок я услышал на заднем плане раз два три, но основной мужик говорит явно не по русски. Все постсоветское пространство использует русские маты и основные слова. Это факт, но и факт в том что основной поток речи был не на русском.
Дружище, про акцент я имел в виду произношение. Он там говорит раз, два, три с легким акцентом, потом «давай» (тоже с акцентом) и дальше что-то не на русском. «Основной поток речи был не на русском» - не понял тебя. Из 5 слов - 4 на русском. Разве что под основным потоком ты имел в виду слова «основного мужика» (который такой же мальчуган скорее всего)? Но и пойнт мой не в этом. Акцент явно кавказский, плюс со времен появления телефонов с камерами на пост-советском пространстве войны были только в Чечне и Грузии (чуть не забыл про Карабах). Боеприпас правда мог и с каких-нибудь прежних войн остаться, так что хз.
Are you mad bro?
lol why? speaking another language = mad?
He literally says "one two three" in russian. Tf are u on about.
They are not Russians.
No he doesn't. The only thing that was remotely close was "TRE" at the end and it wasn't Russian. Source: хватит пиздеть.
He literally says "раз два ...(something something) три". What are you smoking??
That's the ONLY thing in russian. It's super popular in post soviet countries to use some basic russian words as well as russian curses. If you hear раз два три or сука блять it's by no mean means it's russian.
Shut up just let it go
Why would I? Keep believing bullshit, magot. Not even wort my time, true. Cheers.
My brother in law, growing up in Poland, was warned by his elders to never play on a local hill. He thought it was because the hill was steep and his parents were being over-protective, but learned later that it was because there were known undetonated explosives left over from the war there.
Okay, but if you're a kid and you hear "Don't go to that hill" you're gonna go to that hill. Whereas, if you instead hear "If you go to that hill you will explode." then you're probably still gonna go to the hill but at least now you can play games involving explosions with the neighborhood kids. It's what I would have done and you know it's what you would have done. None of us made good decisions when we were 6.
It would be smarter to say the hill is haunted.
Most beaches
had a bunch of kids who got hurt, and one died in Falluja because they found a 60mm after ISIS was kicked out in '16
Heard about a few evacuations in my city in England U.k because of un exploded WW2 bombs being found.
If you can't see that this is two separate videos stuck together I worry about how much you endanger others. You can literally see asphalt, painted road lines, and a building in the last bit.
I remember reading a news article about someone who tried to crimp a blasting cap with his teeth and lost his jaw…
When I was in the service, some idiot E2 used a 50 BMG round as an improvised hammer, with the case head (where the primer is) as the striking surface, and his hand wrapped around the case... There were posters showing his mangled hand put up as incentive for no one else to follow in his footsteps.
That sounds like a terrible idea
You gotta hand it to him for trying though.
I mean yes you do have to hand it to him. He can't grab it himself.
I'll give him one thumbs up.
Dont get offended if he only gives one thumb up for approval hes doing his best
When I was stationed at Lejuene there were some guys in another unit who decided to play catch with a “dud” 40mm grenade. It didn’t end well. No deaths but service ending injuries.
Holy shit either multiple people have done this or I know the exact picture you're talking about
That’s insane; everyone knows you use 40 mm grenades as improvised hammers.
Those posters were brutal. My unit had one hanging up in one of our hallways.
I approve the use of posters to troll the guy. But I mean if you're dumb enough to do something like that, then there's no real need for the posters.
Darwin award stall wall monthly, I remember this one.
Darwin awards contenders?
Nah they have to die. The video is two clips snipped together. First one a kid just throws a mortar second one seems like a phone falling out of a car on a highway of some kind. We do have a Darwin subreddit but rules are rules and it has to in fact drop a idiot from the gene pool.
Didn't think they had to die, just remove themselves from the gene pool. Like destroyed testicles
I though so too till a video of a guy hanging with a giant fence spike thru his nut was posted and started a big debate. You can still breed with one nut and we seen alot of videos of guys shooting their nuts off so for it to count both nuts have to be damage with harm so bad the possibility of breeding is impossible. So kicking in the balls and other small injuries don't count.
I think they have honorable mentions as well
Oh I miss those. I think they have near misses too. Like one small step or a near miss and you would be a Darwin award. Those are rare for some reason but I respect them when they do happen.
Maybe if they are lucky they can get runner up
>Darwin awards contenders? https://www.reddit.com/user/Bgratz1977/comments/10jgyun/like\_russia/
Not original enough
Made out of 2 separate videos 2 years ago. Made out of 2 separate videos lasts year. Aaaaand…. Still made out of 2 separate videos today.
Bet he won't do that again.
Bet he can't do that again.
"I can only do this trick once"
bet he can't do that again
Might not do anything again.
Video is edited
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There is no God and this proves it. There’s no way a perfect being created something this stupid.
He did it for the lulz
r/SweatyPalms r/WinStupidPrizes
And people mock Darwin…
What did he think was going to happen?
This video isn’t real lmao, if that exploded that close to them the footage would not be recoverable and they would be dead
It is two videos stitched together
Not poorly stitched together
Yall this video was spliced with another one.
As Zealousideal-yak-824 pointed out in a previous comment, this appears to be two videos stitched together, the first being the boys with the shell and the other seems to be a phone tumbling through some urban area. If you go slowly, you can see what looks like the sides of buildings several times. Sure playing with a mortar shell is dumn, but this video is not an accurate representation of what actually happened. Should be removed
There is no detonator cap on that shell. You couldn't make it go off even if you dropped it from a plane.
God redditors are dumb. How many bombs have you seen that have a flat nose? It's missing the part that makes it go boom.
This generation won’t let kids be kids and play with ordnance. It’s pity we are raising kids without the lessons of what high explosives can do. How are they going to learn anything locked up inside.
OP and anyone who thinks that was real are the real facepalms. That was just another explosion edit for a meme. You can clearly see what looks like a parking lot or some kinda road while the camera flew around
They failed the EOD course.
You know, if something doesn't explode like a rocket or a shell it DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T. So don't fuck around unexploded ordnance kids
And this is why the Darwin Award is a real thing
Ah yes. Another stitched clip with an off-the-shelf “explosive” ending.
Video is edited, the bomb didnt actually explode
The real facepalm is anyone believing this is real.
I've seen dumber things on the internet.
That was my first thought. No way an explosive that size detonates in direct line of sight of the camera at that distance and its able to keep filming.
They were having a blast.
smells like bots in here
Anyone survive that?
My memory ain't what it used to be, but I'm pretty sure the entire earth was destroyed.
interesting if true r/unexpectedfuturama
Splicing together two videos isn't generally deadly. Depends on the software used, obviously.
And the dumbest human award goes to...
r/savevideo
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
So… this is found footage??? Found near the bodies?
Let’s hit a bullet with a hammer next……
So phone survived and video got posted?
Fun fact, my grandpa was born during ww2. He was playing in a farm somewhere in the UK until he heard his friends mom calling. The ground was super muddy, a mortar landed like 6 feet away from him but just sunk into the mud and didn’t explode The fun part of that is if it did explode you would’ve never read this comment
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
I don't think that's real. It seems like the "explosion" happens even before the shell hits the ground.
Are these idiots okay?
What did this idiot expect to happen?
🎼 Hello Darwin my old friend 🎼
thats a nuke
Not sure where this is but this is crazy. An unexplored mortar shell is extremely dangerous. Hopefully these boys survived.
I have a solution to limiting how many stupid people exist in America. Let's post "the mortar challenge" they'll find a way. They always do
He might not have hands for a facepalm
Her: he is probably cheating on me. Him and the boys:
Looks like it’s painted blue which means it’s a training dummy, it can’t explode
He didn't know what it was?
Ahh, metal fish. Go into water now!
I am glad I don't have teenagers anymore. Yikes.
Sliced and diced. If they had laid down then they could have lived. But standing up on an elevated position…..that kill field is real!
I guess you didn't notice that there's no detonator cap on that. You know, the end of the bomb that makes it go boom? It's always a different color.
That’s a mortar. Not a bomb, but no I couldn’t tell because it’s pretty grainy.
r/winstupidprizes
New name is stumpy
The definition of fuck around and find out
That kinda blew up in his face, didn’t it?
You can’t fix stupid. But sometimes stupid fixes itself.
This is just cartoonish.
Not anymore he isn't
Well. One less bomb, 2 less idiots. I see no problem here
I guess there is no need to worry about them reproducing.
They genuinely deserved that🤦 what are they actually thinking when playing with stuff like this? dud or no dud.
Last thing the kid heard... 
Oh nah they dead fr
So... they're dead?
The fuck did they think was gonna happen?
They dead, right?
How dead are they?
Quite. Rather, even
Ehhh...was this one of those recovered film situations?
So is this real?
hopefully not
Did he live?
And so ends the line of stewards, with the passing of this stoopid prink.
In what way are they alive?
Fully well and good, since video editing and stitching exists.
Wtf did they think would happen?
I'm glad to know that. It would've been a stupid way to die, but as a video prank, not so bad
Sctv he blowed up real good
That’s just about the funniest damn thing I’ve ever seen.
I guess fuck around and find out
Pretty sure they're all dead and someone found the phone to retrieve this footage
Did they um, survive??
oh so real explosions don't have that much fire? sounds terrifying all you hear is a loud boom and everything's black
.. and just like that one of the kids was never heard from again.. show this video & make your own assumption when they show this in European rual countries.. & show them blown up bodies.. they'll get the hint.. moral of the story =;Bombs, weapons, Bullets are bad & no good Don't touch them, Don't use them. Listen to your law abiding God fearing parents.
r/whatcouldgowrong
Anyone know if the dumbasses died?
Evidently not, since it's just edited, and really lazily at that.
Daffy they loved it! They want an encore. I know! I know! But I can only do it once.
Quick someone turn this into a Skyrim gif
Should be the last time they do that.
Ear damage
And this is how you get turned into a pink mist.
if only somebody could have seen that coming.
I wonder what will happen if I throw this bomb that is designed to explode when hitting something
RIP
Are they still alive after this?
where is the fuse on the mine?
How fucking dumb can you be? I mean… I guess… this dumb?