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NYPD detains men who had pressure cookers to 'prepare rice'
NY Post ^ | July 26, 2014 | Gary Buiso and Jamie Schram

Posted on 07/26/2014 9:47:48 AM PDT by whatexit

Police detained two men at a Midtown hotel late Friday after a doorman reported they possessed a pair of pressure cookers like those used to make the Boston Marathon bombs. But the men say it was a misunderstanding: They plan to use the pressure cookers to prepare rice, chicken and meat.

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To: whatexit
pressure cookers

Pressure Cookers? Confiscate all of them nationwide.

Establish a Senate investigative committee immediately if not sooner. /sarc

61 posted on 07/26/2014 12:58:31 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

Have any of you people making fun of this situation ever served? Do you have any idea of the homemade devices that can be made and kill you??

Now I agree that recently the police in places have become very aggressive and overbearing...But this situation so closely resembling what happened in Boston fully warranted the police questioning these guys...
They did NOT go in with armored vehicles and combat-ready SWAT teams...They questioned these guys...
Considering the circumstances and history, I think they did the correct thing by questioning them...


62 posted on 07/26/2014 1:20:13 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: JW1949
So you have no problem with two Middle Easterners entering an upscale New York hotel with a couple of pressure cookers after what happened in Boston???

You DO have a problem about the police questioning them???

I have a problem with enforcement agencies thinking that people carrying around common household items is enough probable cause for a questioning. People shouldn't have to worry about being detained over something so trivial.

Sorry, but the entire "War on Terror" paranoia is only serving to move America closer to a Police State.
63 posted on 07/26/2014 1:48:25 PM PDT by DarkSavant
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To: GeronL

Thanks!!

Freegards


64 posted on 07/26/2014 1:48:57 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

no problem


65 posted on 07/26/2014 1:51:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: DarkSavant

Common household items in a posh, upscale New York hotel???
C’mon...use a little common sense....


66 posted on 07/26/2014 2:12:24 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: whatexit
They should have been ask if that was kosher and observed the reaction.
Or if they needed a Rabi for prayer for being ignorant.
Maybe offer some free pork and ...

I don't go with the police state BS at all.
Just common since works.

I shall raise you one.
Why not ask boy zero point blank why he wishes to do this country more harm than all terrorism in the past combined?

67 posted on 07/26/2014 2:12:55 PM PDT by Tigen (I shall raise you one .)
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To: DarkSavant

Do you understand the word “vigilance”????


68 posted on 07/26/2014 2:16:16 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: JW1949
Common household items in a posh, upscale New York hotel??? C’mon...use a little common sense....

I've made my own meals in upscale hotels before while on travel. It saves a lot of money.

More than a dozen cops responded

You don't think this is an overreaction?
69 posted on 07/26/2014 2:37:44 PM PDT by DarkSavant
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To: Cry if I Wanna
I BELIEVE YOU. you HAVEN'T LIVED UNTILL YOU HAVE SEEN FOOT PRINTS ON THE TOILET SEAT.
70 posted on 07/26/2014 2:42:19 PM PDT by Domangart (Tho I walk Through the valley of Wall Mart, I fear no man.)
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To: DarkSavant

Considering what happened in Boston and the aftermath, no, I don’t think it was an overreaction...If they’d called in a SWAT team and armored car and snipers, yes...If they’d beat them and hauled them off, yes...But questioning them and the, you HAVE to admit, unusual circumstances around this, I don’t see anything wrong with what occurred....


71 posted on 07/26/2014 2:43:52 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: DarkSavant

“...More than a dozen cops responded...”

Considering this is New York City, I’d say this was about right... 2-3 cops to do the questioning and check things out...9-10 to secure the area and hold back the crowd that more than likely gathered hoping to see some action....


72 posted on 07/26/2014 2:49:14 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: DarkSavant

You ever see (on TV) the crowds that gather when someone threatens to jump off a building in NYC??? They are shouting...egging the on....Incredible!!!!!


73 posted on 07/26/2014 2:50:50 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: All

In most instances I prefer “first preventors” ahead of “first responders”...


74 posted on 07/26/2014 3:20:47 PM PDT by JW1949
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To: DarkSavant

I had an assistant district attorney tell me “It’s legal for us to kill you”, and yes the police tried it.

Trust me that’s something that sticks with you.

Start down the road that having a pressure cooker can get you questioned by police and what’s next?

You bought nails you might put them in a bomb you need to be questioned.

You bought some pipe, you can make a bomb, you need to be questioned.

Police have a job to do but questioning someone simply because they have a pressure cooker isn’t it.

I have a pressure cooker I sure don’t want to have the police come and question me.

I drive around with a 55 gal drum of diesel in my truck sometimes.

I don’t want to be stopped and question by police every time I do it because I might be another Tim McVeigh.


75 posted on 07/26/2014 3:55:26 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Ransomed

“In any case, to be so offended after the cops filled them in on what they were supposedly ignorant of doesn’t seem to be the reaction of a reasonable person.”

Yes it’s reasonable.

This is the United States, that crap isn’t supposed to happen here.

Things like having to explain to the govt/police why you have a pressure cooker happens in other countries, not here.

Would it be reasonable for the police to come to you house and question you maybe even search your house simply because you bought a pressure cooker?

Of course not.

As you say there is nothing to indicate they had done anything wrong other than having pressure cookers.


76 posted on 07/26/2014 4:12:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: M1911A1

Truth be told, there is no such thing as trading freedom for security.

Give up your freedom you give up your security.

Freedom and security means the govt is scared of the citizens, citizens aren’t scared of their govt.

The govt has to justify what they are doing and that means they have to create new threats and new solutions for the threats.

Perfect example. Over 20,000 gun laws the last I heard, and that’s still not enough.


77 posted on 07/26/2014 4:31:43 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Moonman62

My wife (MA in Home Economics) said you never cook rice in a pressure cooker. Rice foams up. And if a grain riding the foam gets lodged in the Rocker port, BOOM!!.


78 posted on 07/26/2014 4:40:07 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy

My pressure cooker has a small rubber pressure relief stopper that will blow before anything bad happens. Your wife is missing out on some great rice.


79 posted on 07/26/2014 6:07:15 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: JW1949

Yes, and why TWO pressure cookers for a little rice? If they were really using it for cooking, wouldn’t ONE be enough?


80 posted on 07/26/2014 8:26:11 PM PDT by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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