A courtyard next to the downtown San Diego federal courthouse was briefly cordoned off Thursday following the discovery of a device that quickly went from suspicious to salacious.

Someone spotted the suspicious object — an egg-shaped piece of aluminum attached to an electrical cord — in the patio just west of Edward J. Schwartz U.S. Courthouse about 10:15 a.m., according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

Federal officers closed off the area while a bomb squad investigated. The personnel soon realized that the device was a sex toy, SDFRD spokesman Lee Swanson said.

The area was open to the public again within an hour.

No one stepped forward to claim the device, Swanson noted.

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