A dog out on a walk happened upon a live US grenade from World War II and eagerly delivered it to his master, police said last week, but authorities were able to defuse the explosive before it went off.
A 40-year-old woman had let the dog off its leash near a stream on a walk on the outskirts of the town of Erkrath in western Germany’s Neander Valley.
The animal found the grenade on the ground, picked it up in its jaws and trotted back to its owner.
“She recognized immediately that it was probably an old, rusted hand grenade,” police said. “On the orders of the woman, the dog obediently put his find back next to the stream.”
She then alerted the authorities who blocked off the area and dispatched a munitions expert who identified the object as a still-live American hand grenade from World War II and raced against time to defuse it.
Germany is still littered with unexploded Allied munitions more than six decades after the war, frequently leading to major evacuations when they are discovered in densely populated areas.(AFP)
警方上週表示,一隻狗外出散步時,意外發現一顆二次大戰時的美製未爆手榴彈,牠興沖沖地把這顆手榴彈獻給主人,所幸相關當局在它爆炸前就將它成功拆除
一名四十歲的婦人在德國西部寧德山谷的埃爾克拉鎮郊區溜狗時,鬆開狗鏈放狗在一條小溪邊自由活動。
結果狗在地上找到那顆手榴彈,就叼著它小跑步回到主人身邊。
警方表示:「她立刻認出那應該是顆老舊又生鏽的手榴彈。在這名婦人的指令下,這隻狗聽話地把找到的東西放回溪邊。」
然後這名婦人將此事通報相關當局。他們封鎖了該區,並派了一位軍火專家來鑑定該物。鑑定結果顯示,這是一顆二次世界大戰時期的美製未爆手榴彈,他們於是趕緊拆除了它。
戰後六十餘年後,德國境內仍有許多未爆破的同盟國彈藥;這些彈藥出現在人口密度高的地區時,當局經常必須採取大範圍的疏散行動。(法新社╱翻譯:袁星塵)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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