FBI surrounds house of Saudi student following sightings of him with pressure cooker pot, only to fi

[jakeXT]

FBI surrounds house of Saudi student following sightings of him with pressure cooker pot, only to find he was cooking rice


A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police.

Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friend's house.

According to reports in a Saudi newspaper on Friday, the FBI are increasingly vigilant about 'pressure cooker' home-made bombs after the Boston bombers used one to make an explosiv

The Saudi journal, Oukaz reported on the story of the Saudi student who had FBI agents come to his home, following a tip-off from neighbours that he was seen moving about with a pressure cooker bomb.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323316/FBI-surrounds-house-Saudi-student-following-sightings-pressure-cooker-pot-cooking-rice.html

[Cobalt Violet]

1. I think I'll buy a pressure cooker before they become illegal or impossible to get.

Been meaning to get one anyway. I just haven't had any luck finding a large non-aluminum one.

[Enrique]

7. full disclosure

you work for the National Pressure Cooker Association

[Cobalt Violet]

78. If pressure cookers are outlawed only outlaws will have pressure cookers.

And the only way to stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker is a good guy with a pressure cooker.

[DirkGently]

89. A lot them are really just crockpots with aesthetic enhancements anyway.

[JDPriestly]

92. Yes. I plan to stick with my crockpot.

My mother cooked with a pressure cooker. Scared me out of the kitchen.

Crock pots are safer. Use the right spices and they make the house smell good too.

[DirkGently]

95. Ours has a laser sight & tactical grips. But it's only for cooking

posole, we swear.

[Mojorabbit]

103. They have electric ones now

that are very safe. Put on the lid, set the times and dinner begins cooking.

[JDPriestly]

109. As I recall, the frightening part was the steam when you took the lid off.

My mother had to rinse the entire pot (which was very heavy) in cold tap water before starting cautiously to take the lid off. Pretty scary.

[Mojorabbit]

134. Those were the very old ones! I have one like that I do canning in.

There is nothing like them for certain dishes so I was so happy when they came out with the electric style you don't have to babysit.

[LiberalFighter]

99. A lot of grandmas will be terrorists.

[bananas]

118. Army cooks died for your right to keep and bear pressure cookers! nt

[Javaman]

139. First they came for the pressure cookers and I did nothing...nt

[BlueStreak]

38. Does anybody have a program to print a pressure cooker on a 3D printer yet?

[KansDem]

105. You might be able to buy one at a pressure-cooker show...

...or perhaps from a private party where size doesn't matter.

Check the Internets!

[FourScore]

122. Only a good person with a pressure cooker can stop a bad person with a pressure cooker. n/t

[Javaman]

138. STOP HER BEFORE SHE COOKS!!

[Javaman]

137. They'll have to pry my pressure cooker out of my cold dead hands...

If I'm not able to make my mom's recipe for stuffed cabbage anymore!

[graham4anything]

2. Of course, after Cleveland, the altmedia bashed law enforcement for not being proactive

seems in the hate everybody world of the media, the media will bash law enforcement for saving a little kitten in a tree if it fits their soundbytes.

can't win no matter which way it is done.

better a little inconvience than a million dead.

[toddaa]

9. Pressure cookers and naked women on leashes are pretty much the same thing

[Logical]

11. LOL, so true. He is on a roll as usual! n-t

[graham4anything]

12. The people in Boston might say the pressure cooker was a helleva lot worse

After all, in 2000, if someone said can I fly a Jet into the top floors of the WTC, they would have figured one was talking about going to JFK, taking a cab to manhattan and a train downtown to the WTC and an elevator to the top floors

who in their right mind would have concieved that 19 people would be able to carry out the plans of one terrorist OBL and his orders?

If the police department busted down doors in Cleveland, the same hate the police people(though they call them cops), (including the Oliver-North Freeing ACLU)would have screamed bloody murder.

If something seems wrong, report it.
Then don't bash the police/law enforcement for doing their job.

the life it saves may be yours.

[toddaa]

18. Calling the police RIGHT NOW

There's one in my cupboard, and I've got a copy of the Quran on a bookshelf in the basement.

HOLY SHIT, I'M A FUCKING TERRORIST!!!


"Land of the Safe and the Home of the Meek."

[Half-Century Man]

48. Oh Crap

I can find pressure cookers and the Q'ran on the internet, am I a cyberterrorist?

[toddaa]

57. Did you just google "pressure cookers quran"?

Nice knowing ya.

[Half-Century Man]

67. .......no.........

I just know I can. I guess this is bomb making materials for becoming a cyberterrorist?

[zerosumgame0005]

22. um, anyone paying attention could have predicted it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-25_Empire_State_Building_crash

[nebenaube]

25. Fox television did...

.......Anyone who watched the X-files did...

[graham4anything]

28. I didn't watch the XFiles, They stole it from Kolchak the conspiracy theorist

can you believe Kolchak found a monster a week, every week?
Sheesh

maybe one conspiracy but one a week, every single week???

[Cal Carpenter]

115. I find it ironic that you can't suspend disbelief

about a TV show but can do so quite readily when it comes to reality.

[Bonobo]

127. Conspiracy like the "libruls r gonna buy all our bullets!" one you pushed?

You were on here trying to insert the idea that we should buy up all bullets to "thwart" the NRA...

Miraculously, a week later, I heard on Rachel Maddow that Rightwingers were advancing the Conspiracy Theory that liberals were going to buy up all bullets.

Until then, it was a little less clear what your game and agenda were.

In other words, people who plant CT's have no place to really complain about CT's do they?

[graham4anything]

131. Reintrerpret the 2nd. ALl it takes is ONE vote. In President Obama I trust

That was a sane suggestion

can't help it if Rachel reads here and parrots my views ( I don't listen to Rachel and that red faced guy who is going to have a stroke if he don't calm down, Ed the republican),anymore as she and Ed lost me after the first debate.

I only listen to Rev. Al Sharpton, who has never lied to me.

But, what is wrong with that idea?
There is a finite # of bullets manufactured, and they could be all bought up.

Though reinterpreting the 2nd is easier and shall happen when Hillary45 is president.

But Rush once said, President Obama is going to annhiliate the republican party at the polling booths.
Damn right he is(and all the extremist no matter what political party).

After all, it's 80-20.
President Obama ran on someday putting the people back in unity.
80-20

and let's all render the extremists politically obsolete.

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In President Obama, I trust.(pun intended.)

[graham4anything]

132. btw, this is ad hominem redux.however, if you want me to say my angle-(thought i had)

however, my angle (we all have angles, what's yours?)
Is to render the 50-50 a media and alt-media 100% lie

America can and will be an 80-20 society

so again, render the 50-50 a lie, and make the 20% extremists obsolete in the voting booth,
so that the 80% can live in peace from the draconians who the people time and again have voted they are not interested in.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton have a 90% plus favorable rating in the democratic party
and the vast majority of America supports both

It's time for positive outlooks and let's all work together for peace love and harmony
(which is after all what the Summer of Love was about.

It was together and unity, not negativity and obstruction

It was working together

and it takes a village to make it happen

Agenda? Sure, working to make Barack Obama's agenda last forever.

What democratic supporter wouldn't want that?

After all, the democratic supporters and core voters like myself elected President Obama to landslide victories twice

And Hillary45 will win 100million votes and 475plus electoral votes.

[Ezlivin]

75. "[W]ho in their right mind would have concieved that 19 people would be able to carry out..."

Pretty much everyone who briefed Bush before 9/11.

Yet the man and all of his cronies are free to walk the streets.

[bananas]

119. Gary Hart did

http://www.salon.com/2004/04/02/hart_4/

Richard Clarke was not the only national security expert who warned National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials about terrorist threats before 9/11. Former Democratic Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado also directly told senior Bush officials loudly and clearly that, in his words, “The terrorists are coming, the terrorists are coming.”

Hart was co-chair (with former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H.) of the U.S. Commission on National Security, a bipartisan panel that conducted the most thorough investigation of U.S. security challenges since World War II. After completing the report, which warned that a devastating terrorist attack on America was imminent and called for the immediate creation of a Cabinet-level national security agency, and delivering it to President Bush on January 31, 2001, Hart and Rudman personally briefed Rice, Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. But, according to Hart, the Bush administration never followed up on the commission’s urgent recommendations, even after he repeated them in a private White House meeting with Rice just days before 9/11.

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[graham4anything]

133. Gary Hart proves here that OBL and the 19 did it. End of conspiracy theories. OBL did it.

One thing interesting in-

the alt-media says 9-11 didn't happen by OBL,

here is proof it did.

NO conspiracy theory. Just fact.

OBL hired 19 people to crash into the WTC, the capitol and the White House.

no conspiracy.

Just no connecting the dots.

So Gary Hart himself proved OBL did it.

[CincyDem]

61. I have a naked pressure cooker on a leash in my backyard - any issues ? n/t

[toddaa]

66. Yes, I believe you have serious issues

[CincyDem]

83. Who are you...

...to judge how I dress my pressure cooker ? I thought this place was accepting of diversity !

[toddaa]

86. Who knows what evil plot lurks in the mind of a twisted BDSM foodie?

One day you are flogging a pressure cooker, the next you are wrapping your microwave in latex.

[awoke_in_2003]

91. My typical Saturday night

[CincyDem]

111. Yep - we've always said pressure cookers were gateway appliances. Stop them and it all stops. n/t

[msanthrope]

96. What you are doing is appliance porn, and porn is a bit of hot-button topic here....nt

[Logical]

10. A million dead from a pressure cooker bomb? Where do you come up with this crap? You....

love police authority way to much. You might be on the wrong forums.

[graham4anything]

14. I don't like my friends and neighbors getting blown up or shot

just to play highschool debate?

Many others agree, however, they just ignore and won't argue with me.

[Rex]

27. Really? When did your freinds and neighbors get blown up or shot?

You have no argument, just some silly statements that people are calling you on. But you knew this already.

[graham4anything]

34. Our neighborhood lost many from 9-11. Do you want to visit their memorials and graves?

sheesh
ad hominem me again.

and my sister lived in one of the towns in Boston where those fameseeking thrill killers died.
NO they were not admirable. Just two losers looking for 10 minutes of fame like the man who killed John Lennon

[Heidi]

77. Yes, I would like to visit those memorials and graves,

as would many of your DU friends, I'm sure. Please list them or PM them to all of us. Thank you in advance!

[Logical]

17. Under your twisted logic, if I see a middle eastern man walking out of the Bed, Bath and Beyond....

today with a 2 Pressure Cookers I should call the police JUST IN CASE he might be a terrorist. And the police should pull him over and investigate. And when the police pull him over his response should be "None of your fucking business officer, am I being detained?"

How do you function being that paranoid all the time?

[Rex]

30. I think it is all an act.

I've never seen anyone purposely make such silly statements.

[Logical]

36. Great point. It seems so out of touch that maybe he is just messing with us. n-t

[toddaa]

41. Are you calling Poe?

It's pretty hard to tell, anymore.

[Bonobo]

128. .

[Democracyinkind]

87. Being due beer, travel money and experiences helps...

[HiPointDem]

88. you can buy pressure cookers at bb&b?

[Chan790]

100. I'd presume. They sell kitchen items there.

They have an extensive kitchenware section...it's where I bought my Wusthof professional-grade knives. I also have bought an espresso machine, a sodastream, a wok, two rice cookers, a deep fryer and some harder-to-find types of pans there.

[Logical]

113. Here you go.....

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?sku=18415860&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&device=c&network=g&matchtype=&gclid=CMyTv7bKkbcCFYPd4AodVWsAKQ

[Rex]

24. "better a little inconvience than a million dead."

Wow you really ARE on a roll today!

[Apophis]

47. Yes, let's call the cops every time someone walks outside with a pressure cooker.

My grandma uses one. She'll bring it to our house to make her famous chicken.

Go ahead and call the cops on my grandma.

umb:

[Jim Lane]

73. Your grandmother is safe unless she looks like -- you know -- one of THOSE people.

If the guy in the OP hadn't had an Arab appearance, I don't think anything would have happened.

[Apophis]

120. Well, my grandma is black, so yeah.

[Brigid]

110. Your grandma's chicken sounds yummy!

[rhett o rick]

80. "better a little inconvience[sic] than a million dead" I think that's a Georgie Bush quote.

I am surprised you didnt say, "better a little inconvience[sic] than a mushroom cloud".

[DirkGently]

94. "A million dead?" Just how big was this fucking pressure cooker?

[woolldog]

3. I think I'm going to start

baking my rice in the oven.

[LisaL]

4. We blast people for not paying attention.

In this case it seems they did-although they did turn out to be wrong.

[Tarheel_Dem]

81. I'm glad they were wrong, but can you imagine the uproar had the situation been real....

and they didn't investigate these tips? Law enforcement is sometimes in a lose-lose predicament. Like the tips on the recently freed hostages, that apparently went uninvestigated, they'd be facing a torrent of criticism and probably disciplinary action.

[Lars39]

5. Quickly adding that dish to "must try" folder.

Recipe pics look delucious!

[surrealAmerican]

79. Same here.

That sounds suspiciously tasty.

[pinboy3niner]

6. "Uh, sir? The WMD appears to be full of...rice."

New threat: WMD pilaf.

[Hayabusa]

20. Depending on what he's cooking,

it could considered a WMD.

[Aerows]

53. If it's my red beans and rice

well, let's just say I use Scotch Bonnet peppers and Tabasco.

[krispos42]

21. "Uh, sir? The WMD appears to be full of...rice 'n beans."

"Ricin???????"



<insert massive police freak-out here>

[pinboy3niner]

23. "Ricin beans? Quick, check his Elvis impression!"

[DirkGently]

97. Or his Taekwondo skills?

[krispos42]

135. *groan*

[Half-Century Man]

42. ?

Rice = shrapnal?

[Logical]

8. Here we fucking go. How long before needing to show ID to buy one? Over reaction as usual! n-t

[Posteritatis]

62. Been seeing calls for them to be tracked or licensed even around here

And that's before getting into buddy upthread who seems to think a pressure cooker is a nuclear weapon.

[Logical]

65. It is crazy! n-t

[bemildred]

13. And this kind of stupidity is why they are incompetent to protect us.

They are good at entrapment, good at harassing people based on how they look, but finding the smart ones, the ones that don't look funny, that nobody reports, that know the score, the ones we REALLY need to find, not so much.

[graham4anything]

16. Boston started with somebody buying and on the street carrying two of them

yet the police and law enforcement were bashed by the alt media in Boston and Cleveland and everywhere else

I guess in the altmedia world, anarchy and no rules and no lawenforcement would work fine
(the NRA would love it, only guns by anarchists would decide in the no law enforcement world of anarchy and protest and anything goes

[bemildred]

35. If "police and law enforcement" want a better rep with the unwashed masses,

they need to treat the unwashed masses better than they currently do. As long as they make it their business to suck up to the rich and abuse the safely non-rich, you can't really expect the non-rich to be that enthused about them.

But in any case, that's not my problem, I'm just trying to help them understand where they are going wrong in combatting terror, letting all these mass killings and attacks happen.

[graham4anything]

37. More security everywhere would stop more things. Of that we agree on.

[bemildred]

45. Well, not "everywhere", but we agree it has it's place.

I expect to be watched when I'm out in public, or on the Internet. You should put your public face on and behave in public, if you can.

The internet is a very useful cesspool, which makes it an interesting problem too, but I don't have an answer to that one. When I consider the love-hate relationship we have with it, I think of the story about the monkey who won't let go of the rice to get his hand out of the cocoanut before the human comes and catches him. We love the money, we hate the transparency and inability to control the flow of information.

At my home minding my own business is a different matter, there I expect to be left alone (unless I'm keeping a few girls in the cellar or something of that seriousness, not just for jerking myself off in any of the many theoretically illegal ways our society is so eager to provide.)

It's not that I cannot sympathize with LEO in this country, but they need to suck it up and take some responsibility for their situation too, it is their doing too, if they want to fix their image, they need to step up, just like anybody else.

[Orrex]

15. Rather like the time Frank Burns spotted some Koreans burying a kimchi pot

When pressure cookers are outlawed, then only outlaws will use pressure cookers.

[burnodo]

90. +37

[wandy]

19. Why do you need a pressure cooker to make rice?......

This question has nothing to do with weponising pressure cookers.
Why are we making rice so complicated.

Place 1 cup of rice in small pot.
Add water sufficient to reach from the top of the rice to the first joint of you're index filter.
Cover and heat on high until boiling.
Keeping covered reduce heath to minimum.
Wait seven minutes.

I'll confess to being one of those people that think things like deep fryers and pressure cookers should never be used indoors.

[csziggy]

39. You don't have to use a pressure cooker - but for the recipe he was using

A pressure cooker can be used, probably to speed up the time needed:

Meat for kabsa can be cooked in various ways. A popular way of preparing meat is called mandi. This is an ancient technique, whereby meat is barbecued in a deep hole in the ground that is covered while the meat cooks. Another way of preparing and serving meat for kabsa is mathbi, where seasoned meat is grilled on flat stones that are placed on top of burning embers. A third technique, madghūt, involves cooking the meat in a Pressure cooker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabsah

[truth2power]

129. You are the FIRST person, in all this rice/pressure cooker insanity, to inquire as to why

anyone needs a pressure cooker to make rice. Thank. You.

I eat a lot of rice, and I just cook mine in an ordinary saucepan, as you've described. Easy peasy! Sometimes I just can't understand why people make things so complicated.

In addition, NO ONE to my knowledge has mentioned that in order to can low-acid foods (vegetables/meats) you have to use a pressure canner. Otherwise you put yourself at risk of all kinds of nasty things like botulism.

Homeland Security is going to have their hands full this fall when people are canning the harvest from their vegetable gardens.

[burnodo]

26. looks like the terrorists won

this is the country we've become...frightened little people looking for monsters everywhere

[SoCalDem]

29. Confession time:

I own THREE pressure cookers..Two them have been in use since the 1940's

[dairydog91]

40. Why does anyone need a pressure cooker arsenal? nt

[Half-Century Man]

44. Uh?

High capacity pressure cookers?

[Retrograde]

56. I have a huge one I use for canning

Never measured the capacity, but it's about 2 ft tall and can hold 2 dozen pint jars. It scares me sometimes, since it needs near constant attention when in use to keep the pressure in the right zone. But it's too big and ungainly to use for nefarious purposes, even if I were so inclined.

[Ednahilda]

64. I've got one about that size for canning

and it weighs a ton. It would be an extremely hard to avoid attention lugging that thing around, even empty.

[Mojorabbit]

106. I have four! Two I inherited. nt

[SoCalDem]

123. The 8 qt I bought..the 4 & 6 I inherited too

I did have an extra 4 qt one that my oldest son absconded with when he got married

I don't can, but when I make soup, I get out of control and before I know it, I have enough to feed an army

I use the big one when I get in the mood to make egg rolls.. It;s perfect for cooking the pork so it's super tender/juicy..

and I use it when I make beef & noodles/chicken & dumplings

It's odd... I bought a crock pot back when they became popular and I have NEVER cooked in it.. I have loaned it to people and have used it for transporting & keeping stuff warm, but I never cook in it

[MADem]

117. We've got at least three, too.

One of 'em is short a few bits, and isn't used as a PC anymore, but the rest are in good nick and they get a workout several times a week in the "indoor" months (fall through spring).

Come summer, we're usually cooking/eating al fresco, so it's most often just grilled stuff and lots of cold things in the warm weather.

[Iggo]

31. .

[treestar]

32. white person with pressure cooker

not suspicious. I wonder if they'd have reported or investigated?

[elleng]

33. Good thing, I guess, that my Pakistani friend bought one 6 months ago.

[dairydog91]

43. Racism and Security Theatre

As American as apple pie.

[graywarrior]

46. ruh roh, those macrobiotic people better watch themselves

[Schema Thing]

49. Humans really aren't smart enough for life, generally speaking.

[RetroLounge]

50. Was it an Assault pressure cooker?

RL

[BeyondGeography]

51. Famous But Incompetent

is what the police have been known to call them.

[Half-Century Man]

52. I'd love for this to make me feel good.

I just feel sad. I cannot justify fear as impetus instead of evidence. "Cooking while Arabian" should not be the new "Driving while Black" (which should have been crushed to a paste by now).

[Betsy Ross]

54. When pressure cookers are outlawed

Only outlaws will make pot butter.

[Voice for Peace]

55. Now we won't be able to take PRESSURE COOKERS on airplanes for crying out loud

[pinboy3niner]

59. Not even my carrion pressure cooker?

Darn!

[Voice for Peace]

63. your carrion has to fit under your seat, or be in the checked luggage.

if you ask at the boarding gate, they'll confirm this.

[truth2power]

130. I had a cartoon once....there was some sort of vulture walking toward an airport boarding gate

carrying two suitcases, and the gate agent says, "Sorry sir. no carrion luggage allowed".

Cracked me up!

[Jamastiene]

58. Cooking While Saudi.

Are they at least leaving the Czech people alone? Or are they stalking them too?

FFS, the paranoia has taken complete hold.

[riderinthestorm]

69. +1. Crazy icky paranoia... nt

[DreamGypsy]

60. Don't know for certain, but to me this looks like a possible explosive..

...of great flavors, Kabsa:

[Half-Century Man]

71. 2 questions

1: How do you get the stuff out of the middle?
2: How many cans of non-stick spray do you think this takes?

Great pan though.

[Brigid]

112. Kind of looks like paella.

And it looks delicious, too.

[MADem]

124. OMG--that 2nd pic!!! They're doing the right hand bread dip routine!

They also make one with lemon and fenugreek, very tasty that...

Here's the poor kid, courtesy of the UK Daily Mail:

[NoPasaran]

68. We would not want the smoking gun to come in the form of a pilaf

[DirkGently]

98. Thread win. (nt)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

70. Well, everybody knows that nobody but crazed Arabian Jihadis eat rice.

[Buns_of_Fire]

72. I have a crock pot. I think that's only a misdemeanor.

Although, when I use it to make chili, the first words out of people's mouths are usually "Are you trying to kill me?"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

74. It only rises to a felony and a trip to Guantanamo if you cook rice in it.

[Politicalboi]

76. Wow!

Good thing they didn't use a car for a bomb. The FBI would be surrounding each of us who own cars.

[get the red out]

82. Message to Muslims

Eat out.......

So stupid.

[BainsBane]

84. So was it a rice cooker?

Because one doesn't cook rice in a pressure cooker. You might cook beans or meat, but not rice.

[MADem]

108. Very common in SW Asia to use pressure cooker for rice if one doesn't have reliable electricity.

I would imagine the Arab world has the same tradition.

Rice cookers are electric. A pressure cooker works on propane or gas which are common cooking fuels in the region. Plus, it is a VERY quick method to make rice. The metal container placed inside is most common in my experience.

Recipes:

http://www.gopresto.com/recipes/pressurecooking/steamedrice.php

http://www.food.com/recipe/pressure-cooker-rice-164741

http://fastcooking.ca/pressure_cookers/how_to_cook_rice_in_a_pressure_cooker.php

[orleans]

85. well, i hope this guy learned an important lesson

while it's important never to go to a friend's house empty handed it's safer to stick with chips and dip--or maybe a cake.

[DonCoquixote]

93. what's funny is

Throughout the Mid-east and Asia, pressure cookers are common, as people make a lot of stews and beans.

[liberal N proud]

101. Guns good - Pressure cookers bad!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

102. Did he carry it in a backpack?

[MADem]

104. Pressure cookers are VERY POPULAR in southwest Asia and in the Arab world.

Why? They cook things quickly (which is important in hot, humid environments), and they use less fuel, precisely because they cook things quickly. They also take sketchy and tough foods and make them very tender, so they absorb the spices and flavors more readily.

It is not uncommon for a family to have several of varying sizes.

[GentryDixon]

107. I was looking online for a replacement rubber ring

for my Cook's Essential pressure cooker yesterday. I suppose I am now on the "watch list" of suspicious persons.

The 'War on Terror' has become a nightmare. Our civil liberties are in grave jeopardy, and most people are too busy keeping up with Dancing with the Stars or American Hoggers to even notice or care.

[MannyGoldstein]

114. This thread will probably tie up a half-dozen FBI agents for the next three weeks

Can you people stop posting about this stuff, so we don't waste federal tax money on investigating your lives?

I have two pressure cookers of my own, one with interchangeable bases. But you don't see *me* posting about them on the Internets. I keep it to myself.

Stick to safe topics that won't rile the authorities, like automatic weapons and Pit Bulls.

[toddaa]

116. That makes the whole thing worth while

Let's up the ante...

I use my pressure cookery as a target for my BB gun.

[pinboy3niner]

121. Good plan

It's very smart to keep you pressure cookers under your hat. (But you might think twice about going out in public like that.)

Have no fear. No one will hear a word from me about your pressure cookers, on the internets or anywhere else. Your secret about your Warming Meat Devices is safe with me. Shhhhh! Mum's the word! The guy with the WMDs? I never heard of him.

[MADem]

125. Oh shit, back on the list for me, then...

I spent eight years being badgered at the airport under Bushco. Really onerous shakedowns, ALWAYS. There was no "random" about it. Those Tub Stacking Assholes went out of their way to make my life miserable. I had to always arrive VERY early because I was guaranteed a bit of "extra" screening. I started sending my clothes ahead of myself so I didn't have to deal with the "suitcase toss." I got to know the trains just to avoid the bullshit, and I did a lot of driving, too, rather than deal with those basstids.

Ever since Obama was elected, I'm no longer an airport pariah. I get the same lousy treatment as everyone else. I felt like I got out of jail...

[defacto7]

126. I'm not worried about pressure cookers

It's those automatic bread machines that have me worried. And those pop corn poppers, you know, the ones that use hot air! It keeps me up at night to know that a bread machine is near by!

[jakeXT]

136. Man from Saudi Arabia arrested at Detroit airport with pressure cooker

DETROIT — Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.

Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.

Al Kwawahir arrived at the airport Saturday from Saudi Arabia, via Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court.

He told agents he was visiting his nephew, who attends the University of Toledo.

http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_23232063/saudi-arabia-man-arrested-detroit-metro-pressure-cooker

[Fire Walk With Me]

140. TERRORIST rice. You can never be too safe.