I think the only idiot here is Star Simpson.
Even our liberal local news talking-head said “She’s normally very bright, but yesterday did something very stupid”...
And the guy who wrote this article.
She IS an idiot. If you cannot even make a bomb JOKE for fear of being taken seriously, or use a fake gun because police will ASSUME it is a gun, how about making the assumption that Security WILL respond to a (maybe) fake bomb? Sheesh, what DO they teach them at the U these days? Money well spent, Mom and Dad.
Ah yes - takes me back to my college days when we would hang out with our vacuum tubes and leaky cardboard batteries and impress prospective employers waving our slide rules shouting “Engineers RULE!”
She will go to jail...
If I were a guard or cop in this situation I couldn’t feel certain that the components weren’t a timer, the battery a voltage source and the “bread board” the molded explosive itself.
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