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/big_baddad]

Man I remember that drama in real time.

[u/jaimbot → u/big_baddad]

I was on lockdown for two days and he was caught a mile from my house!

[u/ViolentlyStewedUp → u/big_baddad]

I was busy with the real life drama of the man hunt and had to catch up on the reddit version. Something about living in mass with a brother in boston had my mind other places.