"...pressure cookers with metal and ball bearings. ?

[Contrary1]

Are they referring to the kind of cooker I have in my pantry, or something else? If so, it would have been pretty large for a backpack. How would it have been detonated?



"BOSTON - A person briefed on the probe into two explosions that killed three people and injured more than 150 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon said the devices were made of pressure cookers with metal and ball bearings, the Associated Press reported..."

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/u-s-world/feds-seek-suspects-motive-in-boston-bombings

[justiceischeap]

1. Like this?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. And cue the gun enthusiasts "Let's ban pressure cookers" snark in 3, 2, 1.....nt

[Glassunion]

3. But then only the bad guys will have pressure cookers.

The only person who can stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker is a good guy with a pressure cooker.

[datasuspect]

8. better ban ball bearing and nails too

[madinmaryland]

22. Wait a second, there, buddy. I AM a responsible pressure cooker owner.

[oneshooter]

25. You are...................untill you aren't.

Since you admit to owning one of these dangerous devices you are responsible for the deaths.

[madinmaryland]

28. Actually...

My mother gave it to me.

[oneshooter]

30. Even worse, a second generation possable terrorist!

Mom left me 3 14" cast iron skillets, 30+ years olod and well seasoned.

However they are only good for domestic violence.

[slackmaster]

16. The anti-gunners' snark would be "If only the victims had all had pressure cookers..."

Wait for it.

[Bake]

27. Frankly I don't find any of the snark the least bit funny.

Not in this context, for damn sure.



Bake

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. The one in your pantry

One scary thought, at home you got all you need to make a bomb, you also got what is needed for low grade mustard gas.

You can find instructions on how to on the www.

Oh and to the folks in the gub'mint who will read this... Fuck Hoover.

[hobbit709]

7. I learned how to make all sorts of things back in the 60's at my local public library.

[JHB]

10. Where I grew up every house for several miles around had "bomb making materials"...

What's a Molotov cocktail but some glass booze bottles filled with gasoline (lawn mowers, outboard boat engines, minibikes) with an oily rag (vehicle maintenance)?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Molotovs are damn effective

Take my word on that.

Won't say how to make them even nastier

[Drew Richards]

24. Palmolive and styrofoam comes to mind...

Used to have anarchist cookbook back in the 70's.
All kinds of nasty stuff in there.

[UncleYoder]

15. That's exactly

how my Grandfather would answer the phone.

Fuck Hoover indeed.

[JHB]

5. Depends on the size of yours.I think the smaller ones are about the size of a gallon milk jug...

...which would fit in most typical backpacks.

[JaneyVee]

6. Yes, the inside of the pressure cooker is filled with extremely hot BB's & nails.

[Kolesar]

9. They sell little ones so people who live at high altitude can get their rice right

Water boils away at low temperatures at high altitudes and some foods won't come out right.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. macaroons, and even that can be adjusted for

it makes no difference with rice

I lived in and around Vail Colorado for ~15 years and was in the restaurant business, in the kitchen mostly, for the entire time. I also have an AOS in culinary arts, trust me.

[Kolesar]

21. I am going to be camping near Vail some day

I would like to know more about this stuff. I was thinking of getting a pressure cooker for the RV.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. Funny

I would go camping at Flat tops or Moab when living in/near Vail.

[Kolesar]

31. My wife and I are going to tour the whole country when we retire.

We backpacked into Salt Creek canyon in the Needles district ten years ago. I want to get into the Maze, but that is some fierce country there and my knees aren't getting any younger. Have you been to the Maze?

[pinboy3niner]

11. AP source says 6-liter pressure cookers placed in duffel bags

By AP / Eileen Sullivan April 16, 2013

(WASHINGTON) — A person briefed on the Boston Marathon investigation says the explosives were in 6-liter pressure cookers and placed in black duffel bags.

...

http://nation.time.com/2013/04/16/person-briefed-on-probe-bombs-in-pressure-cookers/

[Ian David]

12. I'm surprised they weren't made out of Lite Brites...

[rocktivity]

17. Yes, I remember it well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x95773


rocktivity

[kestrel91316]

18. Pressure cooker, not pressure canner. I have a pressure cooker that is only slightly larger than

my largest saucepan, and it would easily fit into a backpack.

[Contrary1]

19. These were about the 6 quart size...

according to a UK article I read. If they were set off via cell phone, they could have been planted hours before.

I was curious as to how the pressure would have been contained that long, but the husband said it was probably a chemical reaction, not steam, which first came to mind from my experience in the kitchen.

[FreeState]

20. CNN is reporting it was a timer not a cell phone activated blast

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-investigation/index.html

(CNN) -- One of the deadly Boston Marathon bombs was apparently placed inside a metal pressure cooker and hidden in a backpack, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.

A timer was likely used to activate one of the bombs, rather than a cell phone, another law enforcement official said.

Details began to emerge as investigators combed through shreds of evidence in what Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis called "the most complex crime scene that we've dealt with in the history of our department."

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. Cell phone activated and planted hours before would have gone off as winner crossed

No question. These things were planted between the time the winners crossed and when they went off. They were set by timer, probably after the winner crossed.

[Demo_Chris]

29. I believe the point is not....

That they are holding tremendous pressures or any pressure at all. It's a strong container that would fragment more or less evenly, allowing the explosion to expand and carry shrapnel in all directions rather than being channeled (as can happen with, say, a pipe). Ideally you would want the projectiles (nails smeared with feces, BBs, coins, whatever) packed around the explosive, and the entire thing contained in something that would basically shatter once the pressure grew too great.

In my inexpert opinion.