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09-21-2007, 12:04 PM
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Even M.I.T. has morons!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_r...irport_wi.html
MIT student arrested at Logan airport with fake bomb DAILY NEWS STAFF Friday, September 21st 2007, 10:57 AM A sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was surrounded by troopers carrying submachine guns and arrested after showing up at Boston's Logan Airport wearing a phony bomb, made partly from Play-Doh, strapped to her chest. "She's extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," State Police Maj. Scott Pare told a reporter. "And she's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue." Star Simpson, a nineteen-year-old from Hawaii, cobbled together a computer circuit board, wires, and the Play-Doh into a contraption that she wore in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt, Pare said. "In this day and age, the threat continues to be there," he said. "She certainly jeopardized her own safety by bringing this to the airport, as well as the safety of everybody around her." Simpson was allegedly at the airport to pick someone up. No motive for the fake bomb has been determined. Simpson was arrested around 8 a.m. at Logan International Airport's Terminal C, home to United Airlines and JetBlue, and was charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device. She was scheduled to be arraigned later today.
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09-21-2007, 12:06 PM
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What the FUCK??
Dumbest shit I've heard today. |
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09-21-2007, 12:23 PM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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It seems that the name Simpson is synonymous with stupid.
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09-21-2007, 12:26 PM
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Why are you guys being so harsh?
It's not like it was a real bomb. If you can't wear a harmless pretend bomb vest to the airport to pick up a friend, then the terrorists have won. |
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09-21-2007, 12:27 PM
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I'm thinking she might be mentally ill.
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09-21-2007, 12:29 PM
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09-21-2007, 12:31 PM
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Come on, cat.
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Why was she in the terminal if she was just picking up? At Philly you're not even allowed to stop the car at this point...
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09-21-2007, 12:46 PM
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I can hear my ears
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she looks like 9th Engineer's sister
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09-21-2007, 12:49 PM
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Yep, she is an idiot.
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09-21-2007, 12:50 PM
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My post above was sarcastic, and I thought she was stupid or mentally ill too.
But seeing the picture, it looks like an LED throwie. :ShakesHead: She's probably a science nerd who was wearing her latest contraption. I can see how the cops thought it was suspicious, but upon closer examination, that doesn't look like a bomb to me. They realize now it's not a bomb either. Still, after the whole LED throwie incident in Boston, you would think that she would show better judgment. The cops did their jobs, but I hope the DA handles this one better than the last one. |
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09-21-2007, 01:32 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Yeah. Desn't look like a bomb at all.
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I don't think the cops did anything wrong- she should have snswered immediately when a cop asked her what it was- but charging her with a "hoax device" is just as silly as when they did it to the Mooninite guys. How can something that doesn't actually look like a bomb, and was never described by the "hoaxer" as a bomb, be a bomb hoax?
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09-21-2007, 01:34 PM
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changed his status to single
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what is an LED throwie? asked the non-technically astute cellarite
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09-21-2007, 01:43 PM
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09-21-2007, 01:44 PM
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Those guys in Boston last time had a more advanced one to promote that TV show. And there are some people out there who are experimenting with putting LEDs in their clothes as a design. There's a whole culture of people who make homemade LED devices that blink and look cool and do stuff. She's probably like that, but showed poor judgment wearing one into a high security area. |
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09-21-2007, 01:47 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Technically, a "throwie" is an LED taped to a watch battery and a rare-earth magnet and thrown up to some high metal surface. Make a bunch of them and you can put a nifty little starfield.
These things that freak out Boston cops are more lite-brites than throwies. [edit] third...
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