--- description: Terrorists used two pressure cookers as explosives during the 2013 Boston Marathon, but police confirmed that the device, found near an elementary school, was empty title: Boston Police Destroy Pressure Cooker image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [police](/tag/police/) ## police Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Boston Bomb Squad Blows Up Pressure Cooker  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Mar 11, 2014 8:57 PM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Mar 11, 2014 8:57 PM CUT Bomb Squad Destroys Pressure Cooker On East Boston Street [pic.twitter.com/zc2AAP6Dbw](http://t.co/zc2AAP6Dbw "undefined") — WBZ | CBS News Boston (@wbz) [March 11, 2014](https://twitter.com/wbz/status/443398069371944960?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") A bomb squad [destroyed an unattended pressure cooker](http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/03/11/bomb-squad-called-to-east-boston-school-after-pressure-cooker-found/ "undefined") in East Boston on Tuesday. Police were called to the location near an elementary school when the pressure cooker was discovered without an owner on the sidewalk. After blowing up the pressure cooker, police confirmed that the device was empty. Though the cooker was not placed on school property, students were still put in “safe mode” as a precaution, according to authorities. Terrorists used two pressure cookers as explosives during the 2013 Boston Marathon. “People are sensitive to this. We’ve had a lot of people go through a serious crisis this year with pressure cookers. It’s no joke. We don’t take it as a joke. We’ll never take it as a joke,” Boston Police Capt. Kelley McCormick told CBS local affiliate WBZ-TV. \[[_CBS Boston_](http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/03/11/bomb-squad-called-to-east-boston-school-after-pressure-cooker-found/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/20518/boston-bomb-squad-blows-up-pressure-cooker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/20518/boston-bomb-squad-blows-up-pressure-cooker/"},"headline":"Boston Bomb Squad Blows Up Pressure Cooker","datePublished":"2014-03-11T20:57:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:42:44.576Z","description":"Terrorists used two pressure cookers as explosives during the 2013 Boston Marathon, but police confirmed that the device, found near an elementary school, was empty","url":"https://time.com/20518/boston-bomb-squad-blows-up-pressure-cooker/","keywords":["police","Boston Marathon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/police/","name":"police"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/20518/boston-bomb-squad-blows-up-pressure-cooker/","name":"Boston Bomb Squad Blows Up Pressure Cooker"}}]}] ```