{"id":6442,"date":"2014-04-09T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2014-04-09T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:11:50","slug":"world-war-i-artillery-shells-found-in-checked-baggage-at-ohare-after-trans-atlantic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/09\/world-war-i-artillery-shells-found-in-checked-baggage-at-ohare-after-trans-atlantic-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I artillery shells found in checked baggage at O’Hare after trans Atlantic flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CHICAGO – Baggage screeners at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have discovered two World War I artillery shells in checked luggage that arrived on a flight from London.<\/p>\n

The Transportation Security Administration says the bags belonged to a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old who were returning from a school field trip to Europe.<\/p>\n

TSA spokesman Jim McKinney says a bomb disposal crew determined the shells were inert and no one was ever in danger.<\/p>\n

The teens told law enforcement they obtained the shells at a French World War I artillery range. It was not clear how.<\/p>\n

TSA explosives experts believe they are French 77 mm shells.<\/p>\n

They were seized Monday evening while the teens were transferring to a flight to Seattle.<\/p>\n

The teens were questioned then allowed to travel onward. They weren’t charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: withGod \/ Shutterstock.com CHICAGO – Baggage screeners at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have discovered two World War I artillery …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1952,1951,1953,352],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-artillery","tag-ohare","tag-shells","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}