New York police question man after rice cookers placed in subway during rush hour

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Man taken into custody in connection with discovery of 3 rice cookers at New York City subway stations on Friday, officials say.

Elisha Fieldstadt and Jonathan Dienstduring Friday's morning rush hour and the finding of a third in another location a short time later.that"the individual has been located and the investigation continues."

The NYPD is looking to locate and identify this individual who's wanted for questioning in regard to the suspicious items inside the Fulton Street subway station Friday morning in Lower Manhattan.A passenger reported the two cookers in the Fulton Street station to police at about 7 a.m. Friday, police said. The NYPD had advised people to avoid the station and the surrounding area, but by about 8:20 a.m.

Miller acknowledged that the rice cookers could easily be mistaken for pressure cookers, and the man might have deposited them at the train station"to create fear and alarm in the public."

 

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I have three pressure cookers, two at home, one at the lake. I use them several times a week. I did NOT know they were contraband. I make deadly ribs, chicken and corn on the cob.

Pressure cookers!

You people just keep whetting their desire for notoriety by reporting on them!

He was testing our response to this I believe. Why?

PATscan needed....

The great NYC police force! 🍎🍎🍎❤❤❤🍎🍎🍎

Other sources report he is a homeless person with mental health issues who scavenges the streets and found these three rice cookers discarded in front of a sushi restaurant and may have left them in different places for delusional reasons

And let me guess, he's SHOCKED that the consequences are real

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