Student was sent gun instead of MP3 player
A Canadian student who bought an MP3 player on the internet auction site eBay, was sent a handgun instead.
Brandon Buchan, an English student at the University of Saskatchewan, was sent an unloaded .22-calibre Smith & Wesson gun and a licence by mistake.
A Canadian customs official said not all parcels coming from the US were X-rayed at the border.
The package, sent by courier, was labelled as containing an MP3 player, says BBC News Online.
Mr Buchan told the Star Phoenix newspaper: "I was really shocked to see it was a gun. I'm not a hit man. I was mostly confused about it all. I thought 'How did this end up here?', and I figured it must just be a mistake."
The third-year student called the police, who removed the weapon. He also e-mailed the shop, who are arranging for his MP3 player to be sent to him.
Mr Buchan says he'll keep a photocopy of the gun licence as a souvenir of the incident.
