An Overabundance of CautionĪll jokes aside, it’s no wonder Germans are a bit jumpy when it comes to things looking like old explosives.

That said, we’re glad they didn’t find any lube and condoms with this thing. We can’t help but ask why in the world somebody would toss such a magnificent vegetable. Officers speculated that somebody had thrown the vegetable to the old man’s yard over his hedge fence. In other words, it was about the size of a WW2-era artillery shell. The monstrous zucchini was nearly 16 inches long and weighed approximately 11 pounds. That was not only due to its dark coloring resembling rusted metal, but also its enormous size. In the old man’s defense, the police admitted that the offending vegetable did indeed look like a bomb. What they found wasn’t a bomb, but a zucchini. The distraught man reported that he’d found what he assumed to be an old artillery shell in his yard.Īgain, the bomb squad responded appropriately and arrived in a hurry.

A similar case played out in 2017, although this time the culprit wasn’t a sex toy.Īn 81-year-old German man contacted the police one morning in November of that year. This isn’t the first time a strange object has caused a bomb scare in Germany. It’s good to know that there are responsible cops still out there. Despite butt plugs not being exactly their area of expertise, the bomb squad did dispose of the toy properly. However, based on the advanced state of decomposition the plastic bag was in, the officers made an educated guess that the butt plug had been abandoned a long time ago. “How these items got there and why they were left there can only be surmised,” the police said. There actually are sex toys in the shape of hand grenades, and that was the kind of thing we were dealing with here,” the police said in a press release. “The search on the internet confirmed the suspicion. So, they did a Google search for grenade-shaped butt plugs.Īnd true enough, they found exactly what they were looking for. According to the police, the bag also held an empty tube of lube, two used condoms, and a USB cable.īut the officers wanted to be absolutely certain that the object was meant to go up a person’s keister. The other contents of the plastic bag made the nature of the rubber implement much clearer. Instead, it was a sex toy – a roughly grenade-shaped butt plug of a respectable girth. When examining the supposed the grenade, the explosive experts discovered that it wasn’t a grenade at all. Instead of carrying out a controlled detonation, we assume the bomb squad returned with a hearty chuckle. Butt-splosion ImminentĮxcept, there wasn’t much to defuse. Then, they approached the grenade and began working on defusing it. bomb defusal experts cleared the area – supposedly, we’re not quite sure if there was anyone to clear out. The FIAC (a French contemporary art fair), who was responsible for bringing 'Tree' to Paris, said they will reinflate McCarthy's work 'as soon as possible.'Īrtist converts huge buttplug into huge condom in Paris square. Police are investigating the incident it had only been two days since the sculpture was inflated in Place Vendôme.ĭuring the inflatable butt plug's grand unveiling on Thursday, one man's response was to slap McCarthy in the face three times, 'yelling that he was not French and that his work had no business in the square, before running off,' Le Monde reported.

An 80-foot inflatable butt plug by American artist Paul McCarthy was cut down from its supports early Saturday morning by vandals, forcing authorities to deflate the installation that many prudes in the city of Paris saw as an eyesore.Īccording to The Guardian, the vandals waited until the attention of security guards was elsewhere and then cut the cables keeping the sculpture, titled 'Tree,' in place.

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