Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 4/16/13 | JAY LINDSAY and EILEEN SULLIVAN

[Kartographer]

The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.

[Marcella]

“Just tell them you lost it during that unfortunately boating accident. You know, the same one where you lost all your guns.”

But, I would have a Ruger 38 Special with P with hollow points with P, and a red laser, pointed at his head.

[Uncle Miltie]

If Pressure Cookers are outlawed, then only....

....never mind.

[ex-snook]

"My guess. The truck was the real bomb. When they couldn’t get close, they used the backup backpacks."

Depends on the objective. To kill a lot of people, you use a lot of bombs. To knock down a building, use the truck. Shrapnel? My guess - an expert lone bomber sending a message. Tough find - as they say lately 'he's in the wind'.

[Not A Snowbird]

Well, all but that one.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train.

How queer do you have to be to enjoy a cavity search?

[a fool in paradise]

Are there a lot of college students with crock pots in Boston?

[neefer]

I was thinking the same thing. And would it cause a red flash and smoke? Maybe it was steam but would steam linger that long in the air?

[a fool in paradise]

We must ban high capacity pressure cookers! For the children!

Forget it, Thane! It's Beantown.

[msrngtp2002]

We also need a new tax on ball bearings and shrapnel. I say we tax 25 cents per bearing and 50 cents for each piece of shrapnel.

Funds collected will go to “the children” everywhere...

[Blood of Tyrants]

My wife has one that will hold 7 quart sized canning jars!

[AppyPappy]

The more I think about it, the more it looks like a lone wolf but I’m guessing the guvmint knew a RP attack was imminent.

[HiJinx]

Oh, Carp, does this put all Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises out of business?

[bunkerhill7]

Were they plugged in?

[Blood of Tyrants]

They could, but that will take a while as the FBI tries to identify the brand and the stores that sell that brand and then go through all the stores’ records to try to find multiple purchases. If the terrorist was smart, and he probably is, he will have purchased them with cash or one at a time. The store may still have surveillance tapes if they can pinpoint the time of purchase.

[spotbust1]

I am sorry if this is a stupid question, but not being familiar with explosives, could a pressure cooker cause the fire ball that burned the victims? Again, this is obviously not my area of expertise. I’m a mom, the only explosives I have dealt with in the past had to do with diapers. :-)

[SoldierDad]

Holy Mary Mother of God! My grandmother had like four of those things when I was a kid. I always thought she used them to cook fruit for canning. This was during the dark days of the Weather Underground. One never knows.

[19th LA Inf]

Back in the '70s there was a good movie "Black Friday" and even better book by the same title. A "disturbed" ex-military pilot, played by Bruce Dern, flies a blimp for sports event coverage. He decides to make a statement by wiping out as many people as possible, so he designs a bomb to be carried beneath the blimp passenger compartment, where it will scatter a load of lethal shrapnel over a football stadium full of victims at the Super Bowl, where he will be the solo blimp pilot. I found the story and the movie to be very convincing, and sort of an eerie comparison to the amateurish Boston marathon event 40 years later.

[zerosix]

I'm fearful to admit it but I actually own three of those things (I won't mention the words in case my emails are being read) but Presto might have to close up shop and leave the country.

If I disappear on FR, it will be because I've been rounded up and put into one of those Homeland Security Camps for subversives.

Oh well, there goes my summer canning project!

[19th LA Inf]

Well, the title was "Black Sunday", not Black Friday.

[Gorilla44]

“explosives were put in 6-liter kitchen pressure cookers”

There couldn’t have been much left of the cookers yet they know they were 6-liter? That’s quite amazing.