Things you don't see every day

Traffic on the bridge over the Mississippi River on Highway 610 is resuming after police discovered an artillery shell on the roadside.

A crew from the Minneapolis Bomb Squad attached an explosive charge to the shell and detonated it. The flash, available as a video to the right(at the link above), produced no large blast.

 

I watched this story on the local news a few minutes ago and they reported that local police think the shell, which apparently was a dummy, simply fell off a truck.

And landed upright on the highway.

Uh-huh. Happens all the time.