Posted on 09/21/2007 7:56:37 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
(AP) BOSTON An MIT student has been arrested at gunpoint after allegedly walking into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest this morning.
State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing.
Stay with wbztv.com and WBZ-TV for the latest on this developing story.
This is a wicked and malicious stunt. MIT students are supposed to be intelligent. This horrid young woman needs to spend a year or two in prison.
If I was driving into the airport and she was standing outside the terminal, she would have tire marks on her blood-soaked "art".
She wanted to stand out? At the airport?
B.S.
I have no way of knowing for sure, but a mixed-race female from Hawaii would certainly be a desirable candidate in the eyes of the MIT admissions board.
I wonder if she was “affirmative actioned” over her head?
MIT - Chomskyite?
Like putting blinking devices on traffic lights, polls, bathrooms, and subway stops to advertise a movie using illegal posting “guerilla tactics”?
“That girl hasn’t earned the right to the title “engineer” yet.”
Thank you for pointing that out....C
Mutually exclusive.
Just got this from a friend of mine: If the student claims the fake bomb was art work, would the law enforcement personnel involved in her arrest be considered art “critics”?
LOL. Anyone been roaming the DU/Kos areas today? What are the BDS sufferers saying today?
Put me down for jail time for this frivolous little girl.
BTW, Does anyone have a link to an article that talks about the high MIT suicide rate referenced on the first page of posts?
She should have gotten a bullet to the head. That would prevent any other liberal loonies from attempting this same nonsense. You can’t do this stuff in the era of terrorism.
She should have gotten a bullet to the head. That would prevent any other liberal loonies from attempting this same nonsense. You can’t do this stuff in the era of terrorism.
That’s a protoboard, for prototyping electronic circuits.
Crude but quick and easy to change the circuit.
Also easy to see why it caused alarm, especially when she’s carrying a lump of some putty-like stuff. It looks “improvised” and “expendable”. The flaming running man is another atention-getting factor.
The mooninite boards were professionally spun PWBs with a polished look otoh.
I think she meant well, I doubt her intent was to frighten people. She probably was jazzed that she could put together some LEDS and resistors and make it light up.
Study finds MIT, Harvard have highest rates of student suicide
thanks:)
And what was the role of the play dough? It would have been a more interesting, uh, artistic statement to have had the LEDs in a line, displaying a binary value being counted down, and a cable running into the lump of dough.
Of course, a real suicide bomb would have been hidden under the shirt with no lights, just a concealed pushbutton.
"Sir, could you please direct me to gate C4?"
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