Assuming you are the same person that wrote the article, are you aware of something that happened about six years and 11 days ago, that originated from the same Logan airport in Boston? Two planes, destined for Los Angeles (my home city), that took a permanent and fatal detour into two very tall buildings that no longer exist (nor do the people inside them)?
I ask, because nowhere in your article is Logan Airport’s connection with 9/11 even mentioned.
Is it possible - since we’re talking about education and possibilities - that a place with such a history, whose calendar date has just been remembered worldwide, just MIGHT be justifiably edgy about someone doing what stated rules explicitly forbid - making a joke? Or, worse yet, “wearing” a joke?
To paraphrase a certain senator from New York, to expect the officials at the airport to do otherwise would require “the willing suspension of disbelief”.
Once again - she didn’t say it was a joke. The phrase “Socket to me” was supposed to be a play on words, but that’s the only humor associated with the known facts. What about a radio? A radio could be a bomb. The wrapping around a McD’s hamburger could be used as an insulator on a sophisticated device that’s being moved in piece by piece to assemble a bomb. There are batteries in iPods, cell phones, digital cameras ..... Why get upset over her piece of plastic? Is it just because news reports told you it was a “fake bomb” - Star Simpson never described it that way.
Any type of computer circuitry hooked up to a batter I’d want to have investigated and the carrier pulled off their intended flight.
This is especially important knowing the history of that group of “muslim musicians,” each of whom carried a component, who made a test run of assembling a bomb based on those components.