WRIGHT CITY, Mo. (AP) - Telephones typically ring, not tick, so a man who went to the post office to pick up a novelty phone he ordered over the Internet was alarmed that the package was ticking.

It turned out that the phone - shaped like Winnie the Pooh - had a feature the customer didn't know about: An incoming call causes Winnie's head to spin, and the feature apparently had been activated during shipping.

The ticking that prompted evacuation of the Wright City post office Thursday morning was Winnie's head repeatedly hitting the side of the package, said Cpl. Julie Scerine, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Police and members of the bomb squad were called about 6:45 a.m. when the man retrieving the package noticed the unexpected sound. Wright City is about 70 kilometres west of St. Louis.

"It was pretty distinctly ticking," Police Chief Don Wickenhauser said. "And he didn't want to pick it up."

When authorities contacted the sender, he verified that it was nothing sinister.

Scerine said authorities were both amused and relieved when they opened the package.

"I guess the moral of the story is before you send electronics, take the batteries out," she said.

我試過搵中文版，但係搵唔到，希望大家唔好mind啦
段新聞大概係講美國一間郵局有炸彈驚魂
而呢個詐彈竟然係一個winnie the pooh電話
個電話有個function，就係個pooh頭會郁
唔知點解，0係郵寄既時間，呢個function著左
pooh頭不斷撞個郵包，發出"的，的"聲。。。
嚇到0的郵差傻左。。。。

睇完呢段新聞好好笑，一隻pooh pooh竟然有咁大既破壞力
唔知係唔係有人存心搞鬼呢

其實可能係美國人見得太多呢ｄ事，會特別怕掛．．．我諗係香港，ｄ人唔理佢多

睇完雖然覺得好笑 , 但咪話唔驚 !
話晒美國經過911事件 ar...

就好似hk係sars期間 , 人人都驚到咩咁啦 ~
所以我而十見到d人放"飛劍"都仲係好驚 !

..見過鬼仲唔怕黑咩..

我覺得有時呢D野~~寧願小心D~~~~~

呢件事就是美國人好驚, 做得坏事太多. 凡是對人太霸道就覺得對所有人都要小心以防報復.

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