{ 2008 03 14 }

Fort Wayne, Indiana bomb squad called out to defuse a turnip

An employee at Haller & Colvin Attorneys at Law called 911 Thursday after opening a U.S. Postal Service box and finding a suspicious gift bag inside, police said.

Officers then called the city’s bomb unit, which brought in a robot to carry the package outside to a parking lot. X-rays showed no signs of an explosive, but bomb technicians decided to detonate the package with a water cannon just to be safe, police spokesman Michael Joyner said.

After that, they opened the box and found the turnip, wrapped in lettuce-green tissue paper inside a sandwich bag.

Full article can be found at IndyStar.com

Posted by jeff on Friday, March 14th, 2008, at 5:06 pm, and filed under In the news.

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