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How is your bomb doing today?
It lay there and it was dangerous
London-- Already, for twenty years, Edward Mahoney had tried to convince his friends, neighbours, the police, the fire department, the city council and the army that underneath the fire station in his neighbourhood lay a bomb.
--Neighbours, friends, the fire department, the city council and the army laughed at the bomb. 'How is your bomb doing today?' people started to ask 62-year-old Mahoney, who is an artist by trade.
--Mahoney had thought this a terribly tedious joke, considering that when he was working in the air force on the 4th of october 1940 , he had noted that a bomb had fallen nearby, but it hadn't detonated.
--Authorities partially agreed. 'Certainly, Mr Mahoney, a bomb fell around there that day. Seven people were killed.'
--'But the bomb that I am talking about never exploded,' Mahoney stubbornly replied. On the spot that he had mapped out, a fire station and a flat building were built.
--Inhabitants of the flat had to leave their homes on Tuesday evening. Someone in the British army had had enough of the artist's whinging and had started to dig underneath the fire station with several of his men. 8 metres later, they found a German bomb, weighing 900 kilos. An undetonated bomb.
...I bought a book full of articles like these a few days ago. It cheers me up a little.
I'm Amélie Poulain, I'm from Paris, France. ...Earth. I just came here a few days ago. Ah, um... Have you ever been in a situation like the one above? Preferably without the bomb, of course. How far would you go to be believed?