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Brickbats

Super Bon Bombs

Reason Staff | 6.4.2007 2:20 AM

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When staff at a Hasland, England, post office heard a noise from a package they were handling, they called the police. The police, in turn, closed off the area for an hour and a half while they blew up the package. It turned out the parcel contained chocolate and a vibrator, not a bomb.

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