# Breaking News: NYPD investigating who placed pressure cookers in Fulton Street Station

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**Created:** [August 16, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-nypd-investigating-who-placed-pressure-cookers-in-fulton-street-station/838743 "2019-08-16T15:05:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-nypd-investigating-who-placed-pressure-cookers-in-fulton-street-station/838743/1 "2019-08-16T15:05:02Z")

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AP via [Time](https://time.com/5653967/new-york-fulton-subway-pressure-cookers/):

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> Two abandoned objects that looked like pressure cookers prompted an evacuation of a major lower Manhattan subway station and disrupted the morning commute Friday before police determined they were not explosives.
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> Authorities were investigating whether they were deliberately placed to frighten people.
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> “The suspicion is that they were placed there to suggest that they were electronic devices and possible bombs,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on WCBS-AM.

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-nypd-investigating-who-placed-pressure-cookers-in-fulton-street-station/838743/2 "2019-08-16T19:02:31Z")

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It appears the devices are in fact rice cookers, which don’t operate under pressure - though they may have been intended to invoke a response as if they do.