They Drained This Canal For The First Time In Decades, And What They Discovered Is Truly Bizarre

The Canal Saint-Martin in Paris is one of the city’s oldest and most beautiful waterways. But the centuries-old, 4.5-kilometer canal is also one of the dirtiest, and has to be periodically cleaned out.
City authorities recently drained and cleaned the canal for the first time since 2001, removing over 40 tons of debris in the process. But it wasn’t all beer cans clogging things up. Thousands of artifacts were pulled from the muck, and they range from fascinating to downright bizarre.

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[banessabanessa]

I honestly thought that they were going to pull out dead bodies

[dforscher]

first cleaning since 2001 but found old artifacts even from WW I? Man, those cleaners in 2001 missed bunch of things

[jimmywilson]

"hasn't been drained since 2001" did they drain it and look at all the crap on the bottom and refill it?

[brennanfisher]

"Coins and even a car!"
*shows coins instead*

[joshriver]

weird..title says "first time in decades". The items found seem to support this. But your commentary states since 2001.
If that's accurate then they didn't do a very good job cleaning it up in 2001.

[rantional]

"people threw their bikes and mopeds"

uuuhhh more like theft man....

[thedrumkensailor]

So what were the "truly bizarre" things that they discovered?

[amitpooja]

when I was kid I used to stand for hours to watch canal cleaning. it's like treasure hunt

[MrAbIRaZ]

I was waiting for the Bizarre part, am I the only one disappointed?

[themustache]

did you know that it is sad when you have more garbage than fish in your canals

[pandaDotDragon]

The cleaning was done this time only on the narrow part. And they didn't find big things, mostly bicycle and scooters.
When they cleaned the large part ("bassin de la Villette") two decades ago they found dozens of washing machines, motorclycles, cars... and corpses. The really old items (WW1/2) are coming with the water, they aren't thrown in.

[simm]

If there are things from the war which was before 2001 i think the people who cleaned it then were blind

[tadtranclere]

Title says the canal hadn’t been cleaned in “decades” and you say in the video it was cleaned in 2001... that isn’t “decades.”

[albundy]

I heard they found a French WWII rifle, in near-perfect condition never fired and only dropped once.

[dylanvdveen]

In the Netherlands they found multiple german tanks in canal's and remains of axis soldier fully geared it was awesome they kept searching and followed the river to France and found multiple artiliry pieces (full artiliry gun with shell's) and german french war verchles

[GreyrX]

I was hoping for a huge number of dead bodies or weird creature fossils xD

[bille]

Poor kid having to tell his parents" Mom Dad I accidentally drove the car in to the canal."

[nnovatakaren]

Why the fuck you dump those things in the river?

[otakukonichiwadontstareatm]

A trash for someone but a gold for others