Police raid New York blogger’s home after she did Google searches for ‘pressure cookers’

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/01/police-raid-new-york-bloggers-home-after-google-searches-for-pressure-cookers/

Long Island resident said her web search history and ‘trying to learn how to cook lentils’ prompted a visit from authorities

A New York woman says her family’s interest in the purchase of pressure cookers and backpacks led to a home visit by six police investigators demanding information about her job, her husband’s ancestry and the preparation of quinoa.

Michele Catalano, who lives in Long Island, New York, said her web searches for pressure cookers, her husband’s hunt for backpacks, and her “news junkie” son’s craving for information on the Boston bombings had combined somewhere in the internet ether to create a “perfect storm of terrorism profiling”.

Members of what she described as a “joint terrorism task force” descended on Catalano’s home on Wednesday. A spokesman for the FBI told to the Guardian on Thursday that its investigators were not involved in the visit, but that “she was visited by Nassau County police department … They were working in conjunction with Suffolk County police department.”

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"What the hell is Quinoa?" they asked.

[Bunnahabhain]

1. If you're not guilty of anything

you have nothing to fear. Or so I've heard.

[hunter]

2. For your cooking enjoyment, a Quinoa recipe...

According to the website Nuclear Weapon Archive, inside the weapon, the uranium-235 material was divided into two parts, following the gun principle: the "projectile" and the "target". The projectile was a hollow cylinder with 60% of the total mass (38.5 kg or 85 lb). It consisted of a stack of 9 uranium rings, each 159-millimetre (6.25 in) with a 100-millimetre (4 in) bore of a total length of 180 millimetres (7 in), pressed together into the front end of a thin-walled projectile 413 millimetres (16.25 in) long. Filling in the remainder of the space behind these rings in the projectile was a tungsten carbide disc with a steel back. At ignition, the projectile slug was pushed 1,100 millimetres (42 in) along the 1,800 millimetres (72 in) long, 170-millimetre (6.5 in) smooth-bore gun barrel. The slug "insert" was a 100 millimetres (4 in) cylinder, 180 millimetres (7 in) in length with a 25 millimetres (1 in) axial hole. The slug comprised 40% of the total fissile mass (25.6 kg or 56 lb). The insert was a stack of 6 washer-like uranium discs somewhat thicker than the projectile rings that were slid over a 25 millimetres (1 in) rod. This rod then extended forward through the tungsten carbide tamper plug, impact-absorbing anvil, and nose plug backstop eventually protruding out the front of the bomb casing. This entire target assembly was secured at both ends with locknuts.

When the hollow-front projectile reached the target and slid over the target insert, the assembled super-critical mass of uranium would be completely surrounded by a tamper and neutron reflector of tungsten carbide and steel, both materials having a combined mass of 2,300 kg (5,100 lb). Neutron generators at the base of the projectile would be activated by the impact.

Oops, sorry, that's the nuclear bomb recipe.

[cthulu2016]

5. F'ing great... now I'll be arrested for looking at your damn post

Thanks.

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. Yet after an attack people wonder why no one ever got found out.

Sorry, not going to blame the cops for being cautious.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. thats weird. i have searched for pressure cooker recently quite a bit

and have a lot of islam related searches too

[NightWatcher]

6. if it keeps getting reposted, does it make it true?