Home searched after googling a pressure cooker

[Fusion]

An anti-terror squad raided the home of a New York family weeks after random Google searches for “pressure cooker”, “Boston Bombing” and “backpack” turned into “a perfect storm.”

...the police revealed in a statement they had been acting on a tip from a local employer who noticed the search history on a work computer

yeah... right... noticed search history :|

http://rt.com/usa/googling-bomb-feds-raid-suspicious-925/

[Poorboyz]

So I'm guessing this lady, her husband and son were all doing Google searches from the mother/fathers workplace computer? Give me a break...

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[Cletonius]

Sad that's where we are today. What if she was searching for bomb pressure cooker recipes? You know, like an explosion of flavor in your mouth.

[lambo]

Not so fast...

As a result of numerous media inquiries, received today by the Suffolk County Police Department regarding an internet blog posting, the following statement has been made available.

Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.

http://www.bnowire.com/inbox/?id=1953

[Dozyproductions]

So the police are finally concerned with what the government does ;)

[Exodus_2pt0]

“They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week,” she said. “And 99 of those turn out to be nothing. I don’t know what happens on the other one per cent of visits and I’m not sure I want to know what my neighbors are up to.”

Wow, openly admitting their incompetence and over use of force.