Le Bombe

TEN thousand people had to be evacuated from their homes in Rennes, Brittany, while a large second World War British bomb was defused.

The 250kg bomb, containing 65kg of explosives, had been discovered during extension work on a medical centre.

Cars with loud speakers drove around the district where the bomb was located yesterday morning, telling people to leave their homes, and a helicopter crew watched to make sure the streets remained clear.

A gym was made available by the mairie to shelter people who wanted to use it.

People were allowed back into the area, which included the train station, at midday, after the bomb was taken away to be destroyed.

Coincidentally, in Metz, Moselle 4,500 people had to leave their houses while another bomb was investigated, discovered during work to build a bus depot.

A helicopter flew around the area to deter burglars from taking advantage of the empty homes.

However the “bomb” turned out to be a lump of reinforced concrete.

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Okay, a 250kg bomb is roughly equivalent to the standard U.S. Mk-82 500 pound general purpose bomb. I forget the embarrassing statistics, but in Southeast Asia we had to drop like 10 - 12 of those bombs per gook killed. And this World War II relic caused 10,000 French to evacuate? Then a chunk of concrete scared another 4,500 out of their homes?

You know what? Screw the Jihadis. Lets declare war on the French. That could be a lot of fun. We could sneak up on them and holler BOO and watch how many faint or mess their pants. We could hire the Palestinians to throw rocks at them. - If they run the French out of France, they can have it as their new homeland and everyone's happy except the French, but what are they going to do?

I'm going to practice hollering BOO in case I get recalled out of retirement.