[CPEO-MEF] Bend boys play with metal ball that could mean game of death

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Bend boys play with metal ball that could mean game of death 

Adam Petersen finds an object beside a street that turns out to be a 
deadly anti-personnel bomb 

Wednesday, May 10, 2000

By Gordon Gregory, Correspondent, The Oregonian 

BEND -- Thirteen-year-old Adam Petersen picked up a baseball-sized olive 
green metal ball lying beside a busy street in Bend two weeks ago and 
took it home to show his friends. 

He and his buddies tossed the object around and tried to break it open 
by throwing it hard at the ground. It was a puzzle. Adam stashed it in 
his room. 

Adam's mother, Sharon Petersen, saw her son showing the metal ball to
some friends Thursday and wondered what it could be. Monday she took it 
to work, thinking her co-workers at Design Lighting in Bend might know 
what it was. They didn't, but they were intrigued. They sketched the 
object and faxed copies around town, sending one to the Bend Police 
Department and another to a member of the Oregon National Guard. 

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