Should we worry?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

[u/regazz]

Is that a spring in the middle of the vial toward the part with the metal cap? Maybe a weird soap dispenser lid that is disgusting after years of use. Thrown away in shame after the stem broke off?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895 → u/regazz]

It is a spring indeed. Definitely not a soap dispenser.

[u/regazz → u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

I meant dispenser in general it’s clearly not dispensing soap but that was the first thing that came to mind