Suspected unexploded bomb is actually just an enormous glittery bauble
Is this a bomb which I see before me? Nope, guess again.
A suspected unexploded bomb on the shores of the Thames in Wapping, east London, turned out to be an oversized glittery Christmas bauble.
Tower Hamlets Police posted a photo on Twitter of the object, which officers were called to investigate.
"Luckily, upon closer inspection, it is a giant glittery Christmas bauble!" reads the tweet.
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Neighbouring police team Hackney Police came out all puns blazing. "That is a Wapping great bauble!" they tweeted. I see what you did there.
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Puns aside, though, the good people of Twitter had some thoughts.
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I think we can all breathe an enormous sigh of relief now.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
