Police: Reported Civil War cannonball was actually a buoy
February 13, 2020
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The digging of a swimming pool revealed what could have been a dangerous discovery in South Carolina.
But, as news outlets report, the round object found by workers in Charleston on Wednesday afternoon was much less thrilling.
A reported Civil War cannonball turned out to be a wooden buoy, Charleston police spokesman Charles Francis said.
The workers weren't completely misguided by the solid object. A worker in Missouri discovered a cannonball lodged in a Kansas City area tree he that he was hired to take down last September. And, a Florida man digging a grave fo...
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