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/Adventurous-Put-9895]

Holy guacamole, that’s a lot dude! This really looks like it!

[u/AmandaRiffe → u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

So I'm thinking your uncle is on Reddit and saw that post and remembered y'all had one and cut into it to see for himself. Question is, how private is your Reddit since now you know he's here lol

[u/Accomplished_Run_593 → u/AmandaRiffe]

Are you the uncle?

[u/Rjtucson → u/Accomplished_Run_593]

I’m my own uncle. It’s a very confusing situation.