• Punkie@lemmy.world
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    I remember a story a friend of mine from Serbia told me about land mines still being found in the woods. He said they would still go off every once in a while if a deer stood on them, and you find remnants of deer in the bushes and trees. Also, when it got really cold, the ground would shrink and sometimes they’d go off then as well.

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      We have a few mine fields left in Germany as well, with mines we buried ourselves.

      You see, back then it was thought to be a grand idea to make them out of glass so they can’t be found with metal detectors.

      Well, as it turns out, you can indeed not find them with metal detectors. Fuck.