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Alaskan man to cops: Give me my cannonball back
September 7, 2005
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Yale Metzger wants the Anchorage Police Department to replace his cannonball.
Metzger said he called police last week to have them examine the cannonball he found in eastern Alaska. Instead, he said, the bomb squad showed up at his Anchorage home last week with a remote-controlled robot, hauled away the cast iron ball and blew it up.
The police said Metzger was unwise to carry the incendiary device around in his truck before hauling it to downtown Anchorage, where they say it could have sent shrapnel flying for blocks had it exploded.
Metzger, 45, an Anchorage attorney, found the 4-inch, 8-pound cast iron ball in the town of Cordova last summer. Metzger put the ball in the back of his pickup, where it rolled around for a year, he said.
The bomb squad took one look at it in Metzger's garage and treated it like a bomb seconds away from blowing. AP
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SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS
Alaskan man to cops: Give me my cannonball back
September 7, 2005
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Yale Metzger wants the Anchorage Police Department to replace his cannonball.
Metzger said he called police last week to have them examine the cannonball he found in eastern Alaska. Instead, he said, the bomb squad showed up at his Anchorage home last week with a remote-controlled robot, hauled away the cast iron ball and blew it up.
The police said Metzger was unwise to carry the incendiary device around in his truck before hauling it to downtown Anchorage, where they say it could have sent shrapnel flying for blocks had it exploded.
Metzger, 45, an Anchorage attorney, found the 4-inch, 8-pound cast iron ball in the town of Cordova last summer. Metzger put the ball in the back of his pickup, where it rolled around for a year, he said.
The bomb squad took one look at it in Metzger's garage and treated it like a bomb seconds away from blowing. AP
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