Posted on 05/24/2015 10:23:51 PM PDT by bob_denard
Probably the dude was just using the pressure cooker to fetch gas from the gas station for his lawn mower because his regular gas container was leaking. I know that’s how I always do it.
all these hazmat folks have very little to do. Mass listeria sweeps them easily just for something to do besides watching Oprah. Well, I got a good laught over this fiasco. Thanks.
But We Had To Arrest SOMEONE!
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230162
One person was arrested Sunday evening after a bomb squad detonated a pressure cooker that was found in a vehicle near the U.S. Capitol building.
U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Lt. Kimberly Schneider said in a statement that Israel Shimeles of Alexandria, Va. was arrested and charged with “operating after revocation”. She did not elaborate on the nature of the charge.
The bomb squad was called because there was a pressure cooker and, apparently, a propane tank in the car. They destroyed the windows of the vehicle, extracted the evil pressure cooker and found that it contained..... nothing.
Oh, and before blowing it up they managed to check into the ownership and it apparently belonged to a food truck vendor for the rather ordinary use of cooking food; said trucks are pretty common around the downtown DC area (I’ve had a bite from one in the past.)
But, having decided that irrespective of the owner’s story checking out as valid they blew it up anyway, they did serious damage to the vehicle and they arrested the owner for “operating after revocation” despite the fact that the car was parked; in other words, nobody was operating anything.
Look, I get it — terrorists have used pressure cookers as bombs, specifically in Boston. But before blowing this one up they found the owner, checked it (and him) out, and discovered that he had a perfectly legitimate reason to have a pressure cooker. Why not simply ask him to open it up at a reasonably safe place instead of blowing it up?
I’ll tell you why — then the “Rambo” boys in blue costumes would be all sheepish, would have had to apologize (and perhaps pay for the windows they broke in his car) and they wouldn’t have gotten to play with their explosives yesterday. Never mind the obvious risk that could have been avoided and transferred to the owner alone if they had simply asked him to open it in a safe place — if there was a bomb in there he would have been the only one blown to bits.
As for the “arrest” isn’t it interesting how suddenly after you destroy private property for what turns out to be no valid reason you have to search and search and search until you can find something to hang on the guy, even though he wasn’t driving when you encountered him?
Yeah.
And an Islamic convert...
Or maybe for an Ethiopian for such day it could of be a miracle and in his pressure cooker he would find a great “pot au feu” by the place he left it for a short time
The Tsarnaev Clan at it again?
Say bob...
Tell us - your dead namesake converted to islam. Is that true of you also?
Or are you in the Judiasm or the Roman Catholic mode presently?
Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition", Robert Young Pelton, Collins Reference, 2003, p.270
Just because the Boston bombers was used pressure cookers for bombs the police apparently think pressure cookers are now a “weapon of choice” for terrorists.
LOL
Well now that clarifies everything.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
No nothing happen in my life in this world what is you want to be you have to sell your stuff
You sell your stuff to an undercover narc and you'll be wearing chrome bracelets in no time.
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