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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by reacweb on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:30AM (#16359692)
I spend all my youth in the north of France. I have never heard of the behavior you describe. AFAIK, the rules are rather well applied and children are well informed to avoid accidents.
Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by madaxe_again on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:02PM (#16359976)
Children, totally - I lived in Alsace for about six months as a kid, and was repeatedly warned not to touch any weird looking objects in woods, fields, etc., not that it stopped me from ferreting around in old bunkers.

I've never seen it done, but I did meet a farmer with an impressive array of ordnance stacked in his grange, some of which he sold, the rest of which he said he burned in a deep hole. Sure, single data point, but he definitely held the "this is what we do" attitude. This would've been '93.

Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by trhway on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:12PM (#16360055)
GP described pretty much what we did with that stuff in our childhood in USSR. Not that we weren't well informed about the rules :)