Kicker - A liposuction bomb scare

NICK EICHER, HOST: The contents of a mysterious metal box shut down a major bridge in South Carolina earlier this month.

Authorities near Charleston closed down one of the state’s busiest bridges. This after someone saw suspicious box set up against one of the bridge’s support pillars.

Police inspected pictures of the large, locked metal box with red and green buttons. They then asked transit authorities to shut down traffic—including water traffic on the Cooper River.

A bomb squad then investigated and fortunately, they did not find any explosives in the box - or anything dangerous for that matter.

So what was inside the box? It was, of all things...

A liposuction machine.

REICHARD: The fat-sucking machine?

EICHER: I don’t think those work on concrete and metal.

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