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D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday evening in Washington D.C., police officers on routine patrol spotted an unoccupied car parked near the National Mall. They deemed it "suspicious," and took a look inside, where they found a pressure cooker. They also claimed to smell gasoline. The officers called the bomb squad, and at 7:45pm they initiated a controlled detonation of the car's contents. Afterward, a search of the car found no evidence that it contained explosives or any other hazardous materials. The car's owner was located and arrested for driving on a revoked license.
and if so, did they reimburse the guy?
If you can't take the pressure, you shouldn't be a cop.
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"...an odor of gasoline was detected"
In a fucking gasoline-powered car. Where do they find these geniuses?
You need a license to own a parked car? Was he seen "operating" the vehicle?
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Especially if the cops revoked the owner's driving license just to accuse him/her of something or other.
And was the owner also the driver? It would have been nice for TFS to mention that.
If your license is revoked, don't drive with a pressure cooker.
If your license is revoked, don't store a pressure cooker in your parked car.
about the same time when we regressed 10,000 years and began fearing any unknown object as it may be the end of our civilization as we know it.
blowing up peoples personal property because they have a pressure cooker.
Well, apparently it was an explosive pressure cooker, because they managed to detonate it.
Please don't give them any ideas.
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the BIG question is
"WHAT WAS IN IT !!!!"
i cook sauerkraut and sausage in mine for outdoor get to together's
and THAT keeps unrefrigerated in the car for a LONG TIME
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Any tank should work. A scuba tank for instance. There are no real laws regarding the transportation of compressed air, whereas there are laws regarding the transportation of various gases - inert or otherwise. So, grab a scuba tank, stow that on your back seat where it is clearly visible, and stow some flippers and a bouyancy belt in the trunk, out of sight.
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Assuming the cops had good cause to check his license, assuming there is little or no doubt about him driving with an expired license (maybe he foolishly admitted it, or maybe he was caught on camera), and assuming the offense is one that routinely results in arrest (vs. a ticket-and-tow as some jurisdictions do) then it's a good arrest.
Without evidence that a motorist with a revoked license would typically only be ticketed (and towed), or lack of evidence that he was the driver, it's premature to claim that the arrest was done to cover up the other issue. The only legal tie between the two is that the suspicious car - or perhaps the driver's claim that the car was his car - gave the cops probable cause to check his license for validity. Other than that, they are separate and should be treated as such.
Now, does there need to be an independent investigation to determine if these cops used prudent judgment (vs. "looking for trouble" "judgement") - yes. If they were not acting prudently, does the police dept. need to issue an apology and pay damages? Yes.
Memo to self:
If I drive a car without a license and park it, and I see police activity around my car, call a lawyer and have HIM arrange to recover the car.
Memo to self #2:
If my license is revoked, call a cab.
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Careful attention to terminology is important. In point of fact, they use an explosive charge of their own, carefully configured and arranged in a manner which they hope will touch off any explosive contained in the pressure cooker. Of course, the police spokesman used outlandish terms in her press release. They "disrupted" the pressure cooker? Jesus - I've never heard a military man use the term "disrupted". It's far more accurate when we say, "We blew it to fuck!"
In point of fact, the cops detonated their own charge, but failed to cause an explosive reaction within the pressure cooker. Maybe they should have used a bigger charge?
Idiots. Everywhere you look these days, idiots. Juvenile minded fools, trying to act like important people.
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Pressure cookers have also been used to cook delicious meals economically and quickly. That's actually why they're called pressure cookers.
So have cars.
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So you want to encourage people to think those of us using them are out to hurt someone?
You're doing the harm.
The risks of terrorism and illicit drug production are only two of the risks of allowing this dangerous 'dual use' technology to be sold on the open market! A far more insidious problem is the destruction of essential vitamins in the pressure cooking process. Some of these are required for higher brain functions, like the ability to parse textual data for abstract meaning. In one recent study, over 70% of regular pressure cooker users were unable to detect irony, satire or even obvious jokes in posts on internet forums. The end product may be delicious but, like cannabis or Snapchat, the long-term effects on the developing brain can be devastating.
What? I've never owned one with a clear lid. They've always been solid metal. You don't typically make pressure vessels out of glass. You're thinking of a crock pot/slow cooker.
Maybe culturing some schedule I mushrooms?
When achieving sterility is outlawed, will all the outlaws become sterile?
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