Now We Know Why Googling 'Pressure Cookers' Gets a Visit from Cops

[a2j]

Update: Now We Know Why Googling 'Pressure Cookers' Gets a Visit from Cops - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

[Alan92RTTT]

The Suffolk County Police Department released a statement this evening that answers the great mystery of the day.

Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.

IN short former employer points cops are former employee drama ensues.

[j2k4]

Lesson:

Don't be curious, especially if you have the means to satisfy your curiosity.

[B-Man]

IIRC the Boston Marathon bombs were pressure cooker bombs.

[j2k4]

IIRC the Boston Marathon bombs were pressure cooker bombs.

True, but being curious about how they work might be considered an adjunct to "If you see something, say something".

Pressure cookers are rare enough these days that many people have never even seen one, but even if you have, recognizing a pressure cooker that has been converted to explosive use may not be a matter of intuition.

At least, that would be a plausible explanation for a Google search - the story's particulars aside.

[Echo419]

we should wait for all the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions

[j2k4]

we should wait for an explosion before jumping to conclusions

/fixed

[Echo419]

/fixed

even then the reason why is still there. could have been a white supremacist group or maybe our foreign policy made them mad at us and thus making them do this. it could be our fault.

[j2k4]

even then the reason why is still there. could have been a white supremacist group or maybe our foreign policy made them mad at us and thus making them do this. it could be our fault.

Your post brought to mind something that occurs to me occasionally.

With all the background noise and rhetoric constantly spewed about white supremacist groups, the skinheads, etc., I've wondered what the 'news-worthy' reaction would be if an event like the bombing in Boston was traced to some oddball group of pale-faces.

One's imagination is sometimes not enough...