Umbrella base mistaken for landmine in Wisconsin

200702011235 Cherekee says: "Like the Aqua Teen Hunger Force story, today the Wausau Daily Herald featured an article about a lady in rural Wisconsin who mistook the base to a garden parasol for a landmine(!!). A bomb squad from Fort McCoy came to her house to inspect it." Link

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