Same thing struck me. FWIW, there are several other shots circulating, one with what appears to be a UL certification number.
What next, serial numbered underwear, toilet paper, hell Bloom-booger wants to ration or license big gulps.
Probably capped off the vent with those.
Why would you say it’s odd?
Looks like common hardware store stuff.
Probably used to replace the pressure relief?
That’s nowhere thick enough to be a pressure cooker. It’s a soup pot. Cheap one.
I have and still use my mom’s pressure cookers - one a pot and the other a skillet - which she used when I was a child in the 1940’s. None of the pics I have seen even resemble either of those. In the first place, they are very, very heavy and thick and the lid and edge of the pot and skillet both have grooves which fit very securely together.
Although the new ones may not be as well made, they still have to be of sturdy construction to withstand the immense amount of pressure that builds up inside.
They may call these pressure cookers but they have to be something else more closely resembling a normal cooking pot.
Too mangled to make a guess at make, could be a Presto or any other pressure cooker. It’s definitely a pressure cooker lid though. Wouldn’t take much to block the pressure relief stem on top (cheap brass fitting would do it easily)
“It was not known what was used to set off the two explosives that killed three people Monday and injured more than 170 others.”
BS That is what would give us a clue as to the terrorist’s origin so naturally that info is classified.
Wait a second whilst I untwist my tin foil hat!
Now, I think that a pressure vessel - like a pressure cooker pot - could be the “modern equivalent of the Roman cannonade”. -—Put a bunch of nails, etc. into a directed pot, and BOOM all the deadly junk inside, is directed toward its target.
So, in my weird world, I see an open pressure cooker, vertical, within a nylon backpack, all the lethal junk inside, placed on the ground directly in front of a stable backdrop structure, detonated, to direct the force within a spray pattern toward the street!
Hit the normal runners, less hit to rear standing bystanders!