Tuesday 29 May 2007

Suspicious sex toy panics posties


Bomb squad officers called in to blow up a suspicious package found it contained a packet of chocolate buttons and a vibrator.

Post Office staff in Harland, Chesterfield called in police when they heard the package making a noise.


Mansfield Road was closed off for an hour and a half while the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion.


A police spokesman said: "Officers had no way of knowing what was inside the package. But it gave us a giggle."


He added: "They had to act on the information available and had to do what they thought was right. Thankfully it was nothing more serious."


Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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