[doorgunner69]

What difference does it make what it was? It scared someone, cannot be too careful, you know how squirtguns panic them.

[Calvin Locke]

Yeah, well, there are all sorts of stories of hollow tubes that once contained live ordnance causing panic among the mis- and ill-educated populace.

OTOH, there are also stories of US Civil War-era shells still being dug up, or acquired at garage sales that explode when placed near an active fireplace.

[smokingfrog]

Some kind of detonator, apparently.

http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/crews-called-suspicious-packagebomb-scare-at-south-whitehall-church/545313412

[a fool in paradise]

Did it look like a science project by a muslim yute?