The Media Drop

A Knoxville News-Sentinel staffer found himself in an odd position on Wednesday when a bomb squad detonated a newspaper coin box after it was reported as “suspicious” because of wires that were exposed. Robert Wilson reports that the newspaper coin box was located in a place where it was not “normally installed,” leading to concerns that the device was potentially dangerous. After assessing the situation and being informed that copy editor Keith Harville believed it may only have been a coin box, the device was destroyed for precautionary reasons.