Police were called Monday to the post office in Petrozavodsk, capital of Karelia region in Russia's northwest, who arrived to check a suspicious parcel. But they found a sex toy inside.
The post office staff panicked on hearing a sound resembling a ticking clock and called the police.
The post office was evacuated and cordoned off by police. Bomb experts opened the parcel and found a sex toy inside.
"It (the sex toy) turned on accidentally and started vibrating," a police spokesman said, adding that the toy will be sent to its addressee.
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