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Bomb squad removes pressure cooker from SLO sidewalk

April 26, 2015

bomb squadThe San Luis Obispo Police Department called in the bomb squad Saturday night to remove a pressure cooker someone left setting in front of the Del Monte Café on Santa Barbara Street.

At about 8:30 p.m., a passerby spotted the pressure cooker setting outside the restaurant and called law enforcement. Officers arrived, closed off Santa Barbara Street between High and Upham streets and called in the bomb squad.

Pressure cookers are often used as improvised explosive devices, such as was used in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, according to a SLO Police Department press release.

The San Luis Obispo County bomb squad determined the pressure cooker was safe and disposed of it.

Saturday’s incident is not the first time roads have been closed and the bomb squad has been called out to secure appliances found on the streets of SLO.

In Jan. 2014, a pedestrian spotted a dildo partially wrapped in black electrical tape on Chorro Street near Pismo Street and called the SLO Police Department. Officers arrived, closed streets in a one block radius and called in the bomb squad.

The bomb task force robot, Andros, put the dildo in a containment vessel and drove it to a secure location.

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a Dildo wrapped in black tape ????????


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Apparently intended for a single victim.


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Probably was just a PR stunt by a new punk rock act : “The Dildo Bomms”.


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In Jan. 2014, a pedestrian spotted a dildo partially wrapped in black electrical tape on Chorro Street near Pismo Street and called the SLO Police Department. Officers arrived, closed streets in a one block radius and called in the bomb squad.

OK I’m callin shenanigans


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Ring ring.. Hello?

Del “monte Cafe?

Yes?

Did you leave a pot outside?

What?

A pot

A pot?No, wait Yes there is a pot outside cooling.

Did it have delicious soup inside?

Um. ya , I guess

The bomb squad is coming right down, Sorry about the no tip.


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Ha ha ha ha. This is the best example of stupidity I’ve seen a long time ….. Kudos


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“The bomb task force robot, Andros, put the dildo in a containment vessel and drove it to a secure location”.


I know what “containment vessel” Andros secured that dildo in. Bad Andros….ooooweee…so BAD!


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Calling all cars…..calling all cars….be on the look-out for an unattended dildo…approach with caution.


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BIG 10-4 on that one!!!


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Mayor Jan will now outlaw Dildos and Pressure cookers.


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more drama than Days of Our Lives.


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It’s difficult to be anonymous under an assumed name when you keep using the same witty phrase in different places lmao.


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I would rather the police be safe than sorry, I don’t think the bit about the 2014 episode was necessary.


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It may not be “necessary”, but it certainly is relevant to discuss previous potential bomb threats that we have dealt with in this county and I appreciate being informed of them. Why do you have a problem with it being mentioned? Was it your dildo?


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Because not one single one of them was true. Better money spent on whats real


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And if the police treated it as a joke, and it did turn out to be a bomb, what then? We’ve been insulated, so far, from such things here on the Central Coast, a.k.a. Hobbiton, but we can’t count on being isolated forever. A pressure cooker along a marathon route, after Boston, and you think it’s not serious? How do we know without checking? I realize that the default position for many posters here is to assume that the police are automatically doing the wrong thing, but think about it. Can they really not treat such a thing seriously, in this day and age? All the people laughing at this now would be the first screaming for the police to be crucified if a bomb actually did go off. I’m fine with spending some time and money to make sure that everything is OK. One man’s opinion.


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I think they might have put more relevant information in the article than to mention the dildo. How about saying they found the pressure cooker on the route for the runners.


I felt it was more of a slap in the face of police, that they would close a street because of what appeared to be “just” a dildo in black tape.


We are to removed to think we might not have a bombing here. I feel the police depts are in a no win situation now a days. Damn if they do, damn if they don’t.


I for one appreciate what they do day in and day out.Had it been a bomb made to look like a dildo and it exploded you would have been 6itching about that too.


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