Not So Cuddly: Newspaper Delivery Man Finds Teddy Bear Stuffed With a Bomb!

A NEWSPAPER delivery man was shocked to find a teddy bear he picked by a roadside in America was stuffed with a bomb inside.

DEADLY TOY: A newspaper delivery man found a teddy bear with a bomb stuffed inside it [YOUTUBE]

Anthony Cannon found the cute toy animal on Thursday along his route in North Carolina which had an improvised explosive device (IED) inside it.

When the 42-year-old picked the teddy bear up a container fell out, which he took to his cousin's house to have a closer inspection of.

After examining the cylindrical item, which was a liquid filled bottle with wires coming out of it, he suspected it was dangerous and called 911.

DANGEROUS: Anthony Cannon found the toy with an IED inside it along his usual route in North Carolina [YOUTUBE]

Mr Cannon said: "I thought it was real unusual to be sitting in the middle of the road.

"It was pitch-black out there. When I picked the bear up some sort of container fell out."

A bomb disposal squad from the nearby city of Gastonia came to Lattimore where the house was cleared and the bomb was deactivated.

The device was sent to federal investigators to be examined for evidence on who could have made the IED.

SCARY: A bomb disposal squad deactivated the device and it has been sent to federal investigators to be examined [YOTUBE]

Mr Cannon added: "Within about two minutes of walking up, they said it was an IED and cleared us out of the house."

Cleveland County sheriff Alan Norman said Mr Cannon was lucky not to have been seriously injured or killed after picking up the IED.

However, Mr Cannon said he is happy he picked the bear from the road and saved a child from grabbing the dangerous device.

He said: "If a kid had walked down the road and seen that bear, I’m pretty sure they would have picked it up." A Daily Star UK report.