We have become a society of paranoid assholes

Thank you, Republicans for that. First Harry Lee was blowing up frozen gumbo in the bathrooms of MSY, now Fort Wayne, IN is hosing down turnips:

Terror came to Fort Wayne, Indiana, late last week as a suspicious package arrived at the offices of a local law firm in a move that seemed to presage a deadly bomb outrage slaughter campaign. After a tense operation by robot and human bomb-disposal operatives, however, it was discovered that the infernal device was in fact - in the judgement of the local bomb squad - a potentially exploding turnip. ... According to remarks by Fort Wayne police spokesman Michael Joyner, as reported by Slutsky, the bomb technicians - having had a look at the X-ray - "were certain the package did not contain an [ordinary] explosive device". Nonetheless, they "opted to err on the side of caution and decided to try to detonate [the turnip] with a water cannon".

Of course, the Anthrax terrorists and anti-abortion terrorists who sent white-powder envelopes to abortion clinics in 2001-2002 are still at large while we blow up vegetables.