IT WAS a little three-inch piece of fluted dowelling rod, about the thickness of a pencil and with a loop of string through one end.
I saw it on the desk of a police officer in the training centre in Maydown in Derry. I used to go there to chair discussion groups with young constables finishing their probation period.
And I was curious.
The officer told me that if I ever saw such a thing beside my car I should keep well back and call the police...
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