The Village That The Luftwaffe Bombed By Mistake 

How to realize a Tom Scott Video: 1. *_Red T-Shirt(s)_* 2. *_Comment 1 month older than the video_*

It’s fine, not nearly as bad as dark gradients

Still great video nonetheless

Wait a damn minute.

Maybe it's not as big of an issue with AV1 in the future

Historical Context it’s also a fantastic name for a boundary!

Would be a great beer brand.

The most British name for a Nazi until Count Dankula

@@JulieWallis1963 Well played, madame, well played. Let's see who else picks up on that.

@@JulieWallis1963 Isn't it a Ha ha?

or maybe, him saying he's in his 30's is just a good story ;)

I'd still stick with the quantuum effect, it makes more sense. The fact that Tom claims a simple, real, boring number instead than the actual superposition of states is just a way to prevent the discussion to drift away from the topic. Let's respect that, nod kindly, and keep our understanding of the truth between us people of culture. ;)

@@huyxiun2085 Quantum is pseudo-science as proven in my video on it. If you disagree, Quandumb says you are also agreeing. That's how stupid the atheist myth is.

His age is in a superposition

it's clearly and average

It's not on the sign because that's where the sign is :P

@@gavpowell7864 no :( is on the sign

@@gavpowell7864 look on the left of the word "hucknall", theres a ":("

Agreed.

Love this.

Don't we all need one every now and then?

We have that quite a lot in and around Leicester.

its a big thing around the whole UK

I love it. Keeps the iconic look of the booths as a form of cultural heritage, while still being super useful and potentially saving lives.

I might be blind

Useless?

Why ruin a good story with the facts. That's a long standing principle.

@@donjones4719 Because we should value facts, not stories. I disagree with Tom on this one. Not about harassing the 90 year olds - let them be - but we should be far less interested in indulging speculation. We already have a significant problem with truth in this society, we don't need to add to it by putting value upon falsehood. Reality is objective, even if our perceptions are subjective, and our goal must be, if we are to coexist, to divine what objective truths are and hold them above our own subjectivity.

@@roguishpaladin NO FUN ALLOWED

​@@roguishpaladin Stories have and will always be important to humans; it's how we understand and connect to the world around us. It's why Tom Scott is so compelling, he's not just spitting out fun facts. Facts without context is just noise. I could tell you the viscosity of Jello, the temperature of the sun, and the circumference of my cat, but the fact that they would be facts isn't valuable on its own without a narrative that ties these elements together in a meaningful way. Of course, facts are important in things like science, law, academia, etc. but as humans our subjective experiences, and the expressions thereof, are also valuable. Consider the case in the video, what would you consider to be more valuable: This town's legend or the fact it likely didn't literally happen? You may argue the latter because it's 'the truth', but I'd argue that legends and folklore aren't meant to factually represent historical events, they're organic like us. They can inspire us or help us reflect on the society that made them. We aren't fascinated by the legends and myths of ancient cultures due to their factuality. Just as religious people don't follow a faith 'because the facts checks out'. I'd even argue that most people who love learning about science don't do so because it's 'objective' and they just like data, it's because science is also a lens to see beauty and magic in the universe.

@@roguishpaladin I get where you’re coming from but these little stories are the brilliant things that give people that bit extra motivation. If you’re a Brit in wartime, a story that the Nazis were dumb enough to try and bomb the “docks” that were there and that they missed as well might just be enough to give hope and keep fighting the war. Not everything has to be true or have a purpose. Some things are just fun to hear and make people smile. Fiction books, TV, most of RU-vid even isn’t about finding the truth, it’s just about allowing people to focus on something different and better than the world. It’s a harmless story, it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not, you gain nothing from disproving it except getting rid of something that makes people go huh, that’s kinda funny

🤣🤣 Yea

to be fair, it wasn't an urban legend, it was a documented experiment, and the scientist published their work, rather than tracking down an elderly in the area to ask them if they recall hearing a story that wasn't relevant to them and happened 70 years ago.

@@SirMangler No need to track down an elderly resident. Just ask their children who still live there. Believe me if a bomb had dropped on my village in WW2 I would know about it.

Generalization award

I think there is a big difference between some old folks who live private lives in a small town (or Luftwaffe pilots) and a scientist who published his work. Also, Tom was likely very very polite with the scientist in a way that the Internet likely wouldn’t be

lmao

You think a story that can be told in 2 minutes is a tourist attraction that would sustain a town?

@@psynrg that's fair

I can guarantee that town does not have tourism sustaining them. it's probably agriculture

@@pivinne5536 more likely the city of Nottingham.

''Bomb lands in field, no one heard'' - Scom Tott

TRICLO oh crumpets

BILD "für euch da" ...not

Absolutely sensational. Truely.

@@NuclearTopSpot "I'm Prison Mike" - Michael Scott

I'm sure as a kid I read this story from woeful second world war from the horrible historys series

Petition signed!

Word

I would absolutely listen to an audiobook of Tom reading the dictionary.

LMAO

Who's gonna tell him

Yes... green.

@@yuakka woooosh

Are you colorblind

Don't worry guys I got this. Yes.....its lovely.

Except for Mary the sheep Whom the bomb buried ten feet deep.

You i like you

Except for lord haw haw, who was hung for treason

Which Doctor said this? I can't remember...

@@supremelordofthebathroom7197 the Ninth Doctor, in The Doctor Dances

That far?

about 15 minutes up the road XD

I live here in Linby! It’s so cool to see him talk about it

@@bex2 Is it as nice as it looks?

pbjbagel - It’s lovely here, the village is well looked after and we try to keep it looking nice. A lot of cars like to fall into the docks though. The last accident took out half a wall on one of the docks

Wrong. You can't debunk it because it's the truth.

There's a true story from my town where it was bombed by a single German bomber which managed to drop it's bombs along a row of houses and they landed between each one unfortunately killing one person but doing very minor damage. You can still see chips in the brickwork from the shrapnel.

@@jackh3570 What town?

I'm sure more than 80% has a "during the war" story of its very own that probably never happened

quarry bank in the black country was accidentally bombed by someone on his way to liverpool, probably. that really happened

Jack H - there’s also a common myth that’s told in Linby (at least to the school kids) that pancakes were made here

And don't forget when the Allies bombed Prague, thinking it was Dresden (which is over 100 kilometers away).

Be silent blasphemer! We only point out the bad things of our enemies.

And Arnhem, and Enschede, and Deventer. All in the same night. "By mistake"

And lets not forget "The Starkey Sacrifice"!!

and Pompeii too.

I don't get this, were they firing at the allies and the allies were telling the Swiss that they should be firing at the Nazi instead and the Swiss acknowledge the that are in the ethically wrong bit still go with their threat to protect their neutrality. Or is the Swiss breaking said neutrality because of the ethical dilemma and instead of shooting at allies they shoot at the Nazi, or are they shooting at a completely different location as a sort of warning to the allies.

@@nickolasdiamond5619 I think just as a warning shot

@@tovarischshashlikov thanks mate

Drops2cents check out Mark Feltons video on the undeclared air war between the USA and Switzerland. That wasn’t a phoney war. Lots of allied bombers were shot down, and Swiss cities were bombed in retaliation. The press in both countries published that it was a series of accidents to avoid full escalation.

@@nickolasdiamond5619 No, I took it as "firing in the wrong direction" as in, firing away from the bombers. As in, making it look like they're shooting, but actually not trying to cause harm.

I live ten minutes down the road from Linby in Bestwood; I even worked in the pub you see in this video. There is no tourism in linby. It is a great walking route from the village to Newstead Abby and back again :)

If you saw Linby or nearby Hucknall you’d know that nobody ever has tried to promote tourism in either.

The only time the Japanese managed to attack the US mainland in WWII was in Oregon. 6 people died. They don't treat it lightheartedly, but they do bring in at least a little tourism.

scbonduk Hey hey hey, you’ve got Lord Byron, and... em. There’s... em. A new Cinema

@@davidcooke8005 Britain was bombed constantly and all over. A slightly different situation.

i might write a script that gets a random video from a channel to make it easier to get out of "algorithm hell"

Every. Damn. Time.

@@spv420 That's very Tom Scott. You should totally do it.

spv I’m honestly glad everytime the algorithm only recommends crap, because it makes it easier not to fall down the RU-vid rabbit hole.

@@MauriceGucci sometimes i enjoy rabbit holes. hell, i'm probably the king of them (very many, long stories)

Who said that? I love it

@@erikeriks HE'S REAL I SAW HIM

@S U R V I V E ... yes

Yes... yes it does.

It's probably local wry humor. For example, you might live in a tiny village with a tiny village church, but you'd refer to it as 'the cathedral' to another local, as a joke. It's even possible that some overzealous agent of whatever was the equivalent of the municipality at the time spent far too much time and money on carefully shaping and brick-lining the natural creek bed, so the locals started referring to them as the docks to tease him.

Maybe, once upon a time, there lived a family of Ducks in that creek, and over time the name became Docks.

I looked up the word "Dock". Apparently in middle English it meant "mud channel". So maybe they were always called docks, and the meaning of the word changed over time.

All very interesting ideas! More creative than me...🙂

@@ragnkja The "Pont Neuf“ (New Bridge) in Paris is the oldest standing bridge in the city...

The problem comes when you try to tell truth from lies but be met with "this is our history; stop destroying it" the lies are so engrained in their minds that they can't tell it from the truth because they grew up with it .. like religion

Also another myth which nobody knows if true or not is that the Luftwaffe accidentally dropped a bomb on Bangor a small city in North Wales, But they missed and hit what is known today as Felinheli Bypass

@@ragnkja they dropped bombs randomly if they couldnt find their target because they couldnt make it home with the bombs still on board.

OOF

There's a dad joke here but it'd be a little to inappropriate for this channel.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

At least the fields were fertilized

That really does sound more like a Gary Brannan quote to be fair.

And aside from having a large railway junction, which wasn't destroyed, Dresden didn't have any strategic value either (aside from just being a large city). They also managed similar things in Cologne, wrecking the medieval centre, but not destroying a single bridge over the river and leaving the rail infrastructure and large industrial areas undamaged.

@@mikeblatzheim2797 They missed the cathedral as well, the largest building in Cologne

@@mikeblatzheim2797 "Actually Dresden was a mass of munitions works, an intact government centre, and a key transportation point to the East. It is now none of these things."

@@GenialHarryGrout I think churches were not a strategic target and as most of the allies were christs themselves, they probably didnt like the thought of bombing cathedrals.

@@GenialHarryGrout They didn't miss the cathedral as the south tower received several direct hits, but they didn't want to bomb it anyway, as it served as a navigation point for aviators (much like Salisbury cathedral to the Germans)

make them happy

how

@@pencilgaming1233 googly eyes

What do you mean?

I was just about to say this :(

No one asked EDIT: MY NOTIFICATIONS ARE FKING DOOMED

@@Ja-jq7pc ? This is literally "I have come to bargain"

@@Ja-jq7pc ?

@BadBoyHalo Explains The Joke ?

@@Ja-jq7pc ?

Information such as that is often concealed in books.

There's a recording somewhere on youtube from when the allies finally captured the radio station that HawHaw broadcasted from, and they made a broadcast mocking him.

@@Kyrelel Yes, people who know stuff are very sneaky like that, hiding knowledge in books where obviously nobody is ever going to find it.

I live in New Zealand. I've heard of Lord Hawhaw...

@@Kyrelel or in stuff your mum told you, which you never listened to, because it was just Mum blathering on about some boring stuff...

You again

@@Ja-jq7pc cursed profile picture

Doctor Who : "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. But actually, I'm not! Allons y!

Great place Notts.

Me too. He's from Nottinghamshire.

@Jamie I laughed

Nice grammar

Its how Master Oogway said it @@dasherino7785...

We don't make mistakes, we have happy accidents Bob Ross

It wouldn't be about accidentally bombing a village, but accidentally wasting bombs.

And missed*

Just ask the British, they got experience with bombing the wrong towns and villages 'by mistake'.

Better that than to have to explain why you came back with all your bombs.

Could gave been worse - could have been a Q site.

Thanks for this comment, I wouldn't have thought to open that link in his description. I agree with him choosing A, too, as long as he's careful.

Wow

Achauly, feald, dosant.

Did you say hello?

I lived in Hucknall for 5 years, never knew about this either. Did find out there was a murder happen in the house I rented though

make them happy

They even swapped out the "TELEPHONE" sign for a "DEFIBRILLATOR" sign.

We also light it up with Christmas lights in winter!

@@bex2 that's cool. I kinda wanna see it now

My town has one and uses it as tourist advertising (as it's right next to the pier on the seafront)

2:20

Are your pubs open? The bars in America are still shut down. 😞🍻

@@tigerkill420 Some pubs are, with varying levels of social distancing. Many with beer gardens are open

@@Zadster I can't wait to go to the bar again and make out with strangers. In like 2 years....

The Horse and Groom in Linby is open- my brother works there

It is a good pub

No it doesnt.

@@Ja-jq7pc source?

@@Ja-jq7pc It often does. Even if you come back here to read this reply it means the video gets another pageview

@@Ja-jq7pc subbed to you for cynicism

S Hol truly didn't

You should be more afraid of a bad shot.

“Bombs are very accurate, they are guaranteed to hit the ground”