NYC transit station evacuated after police find two pressure cookers

[mystery-ak]

NYC transit station evacuated after police find two pressure cookers
By John Bowden - 08/16/19 08:22 AM EDT

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) evacuated a transit station at Fulton St. and William St. Friday morning after two pressure cookers were discovered at the station, prompting fears of explosive devices.


The city's police counterterrorism unit tweeted Friday that two devices had been discovered by officers and cleared by experts to not contain explosives.

Officers were searching nearby stations for similar devices after the discovery, according to the NYPD.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/457672-nyc-transit-station-evacuated-after-police-find-two-pressure-cookers

[mountaineer]

Matt Couch  🎙  @RealMattCouch
Bomb Squad on 16th and 7th Ave for 3rd suspicious package found in New York this morning!
9:01 AM · Aug 16, 2019·

2 suspicious packages in downtown New York were not explosive, the NYPD said. Now, a 3rd has been found
By Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN
Updated 9:02 AM ET, Fri August 16, 2019

New York (CNN)A third suspicious device has been found Friday morning in downtown New York, according to multiple law enforcement sources, shortly after police said two other suspicious packages were not explosive.

The third device was found near a garbage can in the vicinity of West 16th Street and 7th Avenue, the sources said. It appeared to be similar to the first two.

Minutes earlier, bomb squad officers with the New York Police Department's counterterrorism division said two suspicious packages found at the Fulton Street subway complex were not explosive.

The first two items were rice cookers, according to two law enforcement sources. They do not appear to be modified in any way, one of the sources said. Authorities are looking into whether the items were left behind.   ...  More at CNN

[Wingnut]

Rice cookers are not the same as pressure cookers.  Looks like a pressure cooker is as confusing to the reporters and writers as an "AK 15 automatic assualt weapon"

[mountaineer]

Looks like Carlos Danger.

Rice cooker bomb scare suspect Larry Griffin II has prior bestiality arrest
By Larry Celona, Craig McCarthy and Ebony Bowden
August 16, 2019 | 5:09pm

The suspect wanted for Friday’s rice cooker bomb scare is a 26-year-old West Virginia native who is facing charges in his home state for allegedly sending bestiality videos involving a chicken to a minor, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Cops believe Larry Griffin II, of Bruno, is the same man caught on CCTV leaving two rice cookers in a subway station, sparking an evacuation in Lower Manhattan around 7 a.m. during the rush-hour commute.

According to police in West Virginia, Griffin was charged in 2017 for showing a video to a minor that involved him having sex with a chicken. The case is still pending.

“There is some type of deviant behavior there, obviously,” a West Virginia police source said. “In technical terms, there’s something that ain’t right with him.”  ...

 More at NY Post

You can take a boy out of the country ...

[Wingnut]

Looks like Carlos Danger.You can take a boy out of the country ...

Boy, I said boy, choke the chicken. This boy’s more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind.

[PeteS in CA]

Will he be Wokking to New Orleans next?

[Applewood]

I guess this is the latest thing -- don't do anything harmful, but just scare the *bleep* out of everyone.  I also read where there was a cryptic threat on social media that there would be a shooting at Walmart this weekend. The post didn't identify which Walmart or where.  And before this, we had a guy show up at Walmart with body armor, firearms and ammunition " to test whether Walmart supports the Second Amendment.  Or something. 

It's getting to the point where people don't even want to leave their homes anymore.  Perhaps that's the point of all these scares -- to instill fear, which will in turn, destroy business and wreak havoc on infrastructure.  Or maybe there are just some sick people who get a thrill from watching others panic.

[mountaineer]

  Perhaps that's the point of all these scares -- to instill fear, which will in turn, destroy business and wreak havoc on infrastructure.  Or maybe there are just some sick people who get a thrill from watching others panic.

Yes, and there's something distinctly Alinsky- or Soros-like about it.