TWIL: “Wayr painstkmg askew” Translated, OR, War, Painting, Askew

So, on Thursday my TV friend taught me about how retreating Germans booby-trapped manor houses.

From the US Department of Veteran's Affairs: 

The Germans identified a house that advancing Allies would find suitable for a command post. A picture on the wall was hung crooked. There was a Teller mine behind the picture; the Germans assumed that only an officer would care enough about a crooked picture to straighten it.

Often “Things I Have Learned” seem to be “Things Everyone Knows.” If this isn’t in a movie, it should be. Is it?

Comments

[KC]

... yeah, I would be toast.

(It would be nice if no one ever tried to kill *specifically* those people who showed basic humanity; I feel like the urge for picture-straightness is more fair, although very sneaky, to target. But things like the double-tap bomb strategies used by Russia in Ukraine, where you bomb a place, wait enough time for first responders and journalists to show up, then bomb that specific spot again: humans can be pretty evil?)

[theQueen]

KC - That is doubly evil. And anyone who bombs a funeral, triple.