"Wait a minute... That's not my rubber birdie. That's a bomb!" Nope, wrong again. "That's a flash bang!" (No wonder the cat was confused).
KABUL (AFGHANISTAN) —
The highly guarded US Embassy in Afghanistan's capital and a wandering cat with a keen snout were in for one heck of a surprise when the calm of an afternoon gave way to an explosion that could be heard throughout the embassy neighborhood and all sorts of chaos.
Embassy spokesman John Kincannon told the Associated Press that an explosion last week was triggered when a cat wandered up to a warning device, known as a "flash-bang", which was one of several set up along the embassy's perimeter to guard against intruders.
"The cat lived, but it was a very frightened cat," he said.
Source:
Herald Sun and Weekly Times