So here's what this world has come to these days.

A funny and disturbing item I saw today about a bomb scare at the Philadelphia Phillies' home ballpark before Wednesday's game against the Atlanta Braves.

Apparently, hours before the game the team's green fuzzy mascot, the Philly Phanatic, was filmed shooting heavily-taped hot dogs for a commercial. A couple of those hot dogs, however, were accidentally left outside the ballpark and when someone spotted them wrapped in duct tape (I believe), the city's bomb squad was called in.

The bomb squad blew up the packages before knowing they were just hot dogs. So, no harm, no foul -- unless you really like hot dogs.

It's a funny image -- thinking about a bomb squad detonating hot dogs -- but in the world we live in today, it's equally disturbing that people have to be that careful -- or paranoid -- when it comes to things like this.