Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ALBUQUERQUE, May 24 (UPI) -- An Albuquerque man said police sent a bomb squad to his house after he discovered an item given to him by a friend years ago was likely an 1800s cannonball. Kenny Honeycutt said he was describing the object to a friend Friday and was told it sounded like a cannonball from the Civil War era, leading him to call police to ask whether it might be dangerous, KOAT-TV, Albuquerque, reported Monday. Advertisement "My grandkids come over here and play all the time. I thought, if this thing is dangerous I want to get it out of there," Honeycutt said. "I had used it for a doorstop for a while. I thought I would set it up on the entertainment center." Police said the item was determined to be an explosive device from the 1800s, but there was no gunpowder inside the object so it was not considered dangerous. Honeycutt said he does not know what he will do with the cannonball now. "It might be valuable to somebody. Maybe I should put it on the Internet," said Honeycutt.
