It must have been love, but it’s over now: sex toy placed in trash bin triggers DC bomb squad

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A stretch of a major Washington DC roadway was brought to a standstill during Wednesday morning’s rush hour after the city’s bomb squad responded to a suspicious device – only for police to later identify the object as a sex toy. The situation unfolded at about 7am as many commuters were on their way to work. Authorities initially told WUSA9 that a witness had reported seeing someone place a suspicious package inside a trash can near the Tenleytown fire station. According to the incident report obtained by Fox 5, a person walked up to an employee outside the rear of DC Fire and EMS Engine 20 and left a “blue-and-black…

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