Bomb squad and local authorities called to defuse suspicious package threat left outside church in Ohio, but contents were unexpected

[.Detective.]

Authorities in Ohio were met with a pleasant surprise when a "suspicious package" they had been called to investigate outside a church turned out to be a bag of kittens.

Butler County Sheriff's Office said their bomb unit had been called to inspect a bag at a church in New Miami on Thursday. Instead of explosives, they discovered it contained a cat and six one-day-old kittens.

"When Specialist Mike Grimes and Det Detherage arrived, they didn't hear ticking they heard purring," the department said in the post on Facebook.

A note left on a paper napkin said that the mother cat, named Sprinkles, went into labour on 17 Feburary at 2pm

The police department assured the public the "momma and babies are warm, cozy and fed" and had been transferred to an animal shelter.

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Bomb squad called to defuse bag of kittens left outside church in Ohio

‘They didn’t hear ticking, they heard purring’

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[EdibleKnife]

Somehow 14 people still died

 

[Christian]

Aw, Sprinkles! Good mommy.

 

[super-famicom]

So, a cuteness explosion

 

[Reym]

:(
I know they were found quickly and brought to a shelter, but stories of abandoned pets always break my heart.

 

[Indy in the Fridge]

 

[Weebos]

At least the person who left them there gave them a pretty cozy looking bag.

 

[Billfisto]

It's a really good thing they didn't do a controlled explosion. That could have been harrowing.

 

[Cosmic Schwung]

Is this some marketing for Exploding Kittens?

 

[HeySeuss]

I thought Dwight killed Sprinkles?

 

[PuppetMinion]

Somehow 14 people still died

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lol, you got me, now I feel bad for laughing.

 

[BioDigital Jazzman]

People love doing the whole cat drop off box. I remember one night I'm sitting in bed and I hear a car speed down the street, stop and drop something in the middle of the road and drive off. It was a box of kittens

 

[Doggg]

Should still wear a bomb suit, just to be safe.

 

[Chopchop]

The cutest suspicious package.

 

[Psychotext]

It's a really good thing they didn't do a controlled explosion. That could have been harrowing.

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Exactly what I thought. Yikes.

 

[PuppetMinion]

Exactly what I thought. Yikes.

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Sprinkles indeed but horrible joke aside, they would have to check(which they also did in this case) before doing that right. What if someone did the literal leaving baby at church doorstep.

 

[Thorn]

Poor Mama. I'm sure the person had some good intentions leaving it at a church but maybe next time make the note bigger?

 

[JoseDFrog]

Not a bomb, yet still a catastrophe.

 

[JustAnotherMike]

Somehow 14 people still died

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Their little claws are so sharp!

 

[nihilence]

Unexpected? I guessed kittens. Happens too often.