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What's going to school in big, bad Cambridge like without a couple of bomb scares once in a while? No big deal, right? Just another night where a bunch of fire engines are blaring their sirens and flashing their lights...in the Quad?! The relative tranquility usually experienced by Quadlings was disrupted this evening when the commotion caused by the fire department led many to think there was a bomb threat in the surrounding area...
Turns out, the Cambridge Fire Department and bomb squad were merely responding to a call from an elderly couple...trying to get rid of a cannonball. We know, right? The surprises just keep coming. The couple had, for many years, used said cannonball as a doorstop in their home, but on this fateful evening of October 26, 2009, they decided it was finally time to let go of their beloved iron friend...
...worried neighbor called the fire department who called the bomb squad, and the cannonball has since been carried off to be disposed of safely...
...prompting speculation that al-Qaeda might be attempting to create nuclear or radioactive weapons. But a spokesman for CERN said the lab has been closed since last September and that it doesn't generate enough radioactive material to justify fears that Hicheur was trying to create a dirty bomb...
...Saturday’s contest against Princeton (1-5, 0-3 Ivy), the Crimson (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) used three plays in its first drive—a pair of one-yard rushes and a 77-yard bomb from junior quarterback Collier Winters to classmate Chris Lorditch—to tack seven points on the board, en route to a 37-3 drubbing of the Tigers...