Pressure cooker left at Everett gas station not a bomb
Sep 11, 2013, 9:21 AM | Updated: 10:43 am
It might have been somebody’s twisted idea of a joke on the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Customers at a gas station in south Everett called police at about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday to report a pressure cooker left near a gas pump. Officer Aaron Snell says the bomb squad checked it out and detonated the appliance, just in case there was an explosive inside.
“There were no wires, nothing associated with that pressure cooker, so it wasn’t even really intended to be much more than just something to cause fear and alarm,” said Everett police spokesman Aaron Snell. “I think the intent was to look real similar to the Boston Marathon bombing. It was out in the open, the vehicle just drove up, they placed it outside the vehicle and then they drove off.”
Police will interview witnesses at the Fred Meyer on the Bothell-Everett Highway and check surveillance video to find out who left the pressure cooker behind.
