ORLANDO, Fla. -- A child's toy sparked a bomb scare late Tuesday morning. The Orange County Bomb Squad was on scene investigating a suspicious package, which was a toy pony, on Whisper Glen Court in Orlando. Just before noon it was blown up. Officers told WFTV that a concerned citizen called it in.
No one knows where the toy pony came from, but it was found in a cul-de-sac near Waterbridge Elementary School.
It's not something you see every day, a child's toy treated like a terrorist's weapon. But investigators said they could take no chances with a toy pony equipped with wires and batteries.
"We're just not taking any chances at all. We're just making sure everything is fine," an officer said.
"Then my mind started racing with all the terror threats and all the crazy people in the world, how crazy it potentially could have gotten," eyewitness Scott Kilwine said.
Waterbridge Elementary school was less than 100 yards away from the strangely-placed toy. The scene took on an almost comical tone as a real bomb robot faced off against what turned out to be a Hasbro toy robot called Butterscotch that sells for about $350.
"It was crazy! When I first saw it my wife was like, 'I think there's like some wild animal in the cul-du-sac,'" Kilwine said.
When it was all over, all that was left was a charred area of the cul-du-sac, small pieces of the toy, plastic, wire and fur.
But the incident made for excitement in the neighborhood.
"The guy said, 'Fire in the hole, fire in the hole!' And then boom!" Kilwine said.
The sheriff's office says it doesn't keep track of how much an incident like that costs taxpayers.
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