It may not have been a bomb, but it’s still metaphorically explosive.
A bomb squad in Jensen Beach, Fla., was shocked to learn that the suspicious package they were set to dismantle was a sex toy.
“It was a pink plastic adult novelty item, with some type of a plastic rabbit attached to it,” the sheriff told reporters.
Naturally, the woman who got the package claimed she never ordered it.
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Elsewhere in Florida, state officials say they’ll soon be deploying drones to locate mosquito-breeding ponds so that the pests can be eradicated.
But they won’t use Hellfire missiles to do the job. Instead, teams will be dispatched to spray mosquito-killing chemicals or deposit mosquito-eating fish.
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A “drowning person” report that prompted a massive rescue response in Columbus, Ga., turned out to be a basketball floating down a river.
Rescuers went out on the Chattahoochee River after someone reported hearing screams.
But they called off the search after finding only the ball bobbing on the surface.
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Maybe his first mistake was going to Scotland for pizza.
A German tourist got into a raging fight with his wife in a Scottish pizza parlor over how bad their vacation was going and threw a sizzling hot pie at her.
Wolfgang Gruelich, 57, was let out of jail after he agreed to take a separate flight home from his family — and also take time to consider how things might have gone if he had just tried the haggis.
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There’s no bridge over these troubled waters.
Villagers in Nebbi, Uganda, rejoiced when construction of a bridge over the River Odyek was finished Friday. But their glee was short-lived: they weren’t able to use it to commute the next week, because It collapsed Monday.
The collapse cut off villagers’ new access to hospitals.