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EAST BOSTON (CBS) The bomb squad destroyed a pressure cooker left unattended on a street in East Boston Tuesday morning.
Boston Police were called to a house on Lexington Street near the ODonnell Elementary School around 9:30 a.m. after the device was discovered on the sidewalk.
A member of the bomb squad set up a disruption device near the pressure cooker and a few minutes later it was blown up.
Police later said the pressure cooker was empty.
A spokesperson for Boston Public Schools told WBZ-TV the device was not on school grounds and students and teachers were not in any danger, but the school was put into safe mode as a precaution.
Police say a neighbor called them to alert them to the device. Theyre not sure yet who put it on the sidewalk.
Two pressure cookers were used as explosives in the Boston Marathon bombings last year.
People are sensitive to this. Weve had a lot of people go through a serious crisis this year with pressure cookers. Its no joke. We dont take it as a joke. Well never take it as a joke, Boston Police Capt. Kelley McCormick told WBZ-TV.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/03/11/bomb-squad-called-to-east-boston-school-after-pressure-cooker-found/
Either someone out there is really oblivious, or just trying to be a dick...
Cirque du So-What
(25,941 posts)and I'm betting that the dick responsible has already bragged about it on social media.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Hope their not around when I'm canning this summer.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)This close to St Pat's