Snippets: Jenkins said the children who found the object brought it into their house. The father brought it back outside and called emergency dispatchers, worried it might be an explosive.
The Richland County Sheriff's Dept. lent a crew of bomb experts and its bomb trailer to the Columbia Police Department to transport the object to the Richland County C&D Landfill, Capt. Joseph Pelicci said. He said the object would be destroyed there in a controlled detonation.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "itial reports described the object as "like a cannonball.""
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THANKS MamaDearest for the ping.
I'm glad no one was hurt.
Hmmm, wonder what it really was and if it was new or old.