Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage
Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage Rob Beschizza 6:00 am Fri Jul 31, 2026 Photo: TSA TSA staff found five Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's checked suitcase at Gulf Shores International Airport in Alabama. Investigators found that the munitions were missing from nearby Fort Morgan; a child supposedly pilfered them and sneaked them into grandma's luggage. Appearing as large opaque masses on the X-ray screen, the five well-rusted balls were wrapped in paper towels together in a bag, the largest roughly grapefruit-sized and the smallest about an inch across.
- ▪Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage Rob Beschizza 6:00 am Fri Jul 31, 2026 Photo: TSA TSA staff found five Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's checked suitcase at Gulf Shores International Airport in Alabama.
- ▪Investigators found that the munitions were missing from nearby Fort Morgan; a child supposedly pilfered them and sneaked them into grandma's luggage.
- ▪Appearing as large opaque masses on the X-ray screen, the five well-rusted balls were wrapped in paper towels together in a bag, the largest roughly grapefruit-sized and the smallest about an inch across.
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| Original publisher | Boing Boing |
| Canonical URL | https://boingboing.net/2026/07/31/1117952.html |
| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:00:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-31T15:03:09.041Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-31T15:03:09.041Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | g4mYHghc6Ile · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage Rob Beschizza 6:00 am Fri Jul 31, 2026 Photo: TSA TSA staff found five Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's checked suitcase at Gulf Shores International Airport in Alabama. Investigators found that the munitions were missing from nearby Fort Morgan; a child supposedly pilfered them and sneaked them into grandma's luggage. Appearing as large opaque masses on the X-ray screen, the five well-rusted balls were wrapped in paper towels together in a bag, the largest roughly grapefruit-sized and the smallest about an inch across. KSLA News reports that the officer at the scanner, Justin Dupree, thought he was dealing with a live explosive. "My first thought was, 'I couldn't see a fuse and need to get some help quick,'" Dupree said.
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