A sharp-eyed deputy is being credited with finding a roadside “weapon of mass destruction” before anyone hit the tripwire, according to investigators in western North Carolina.
The discovery was made Nov. 29 near Marion, when the deputy stopped to do a property check and “noticed several monofilament strands stretched across the road,” the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office said in a Dec. 3 news release.
“The monofilament (wire) was connected to a device that was pointed toward the road,” the sheriff’s office said. “An investigation … determined it to be a destructive explosive device.”…