to Haleakala volcano and dangle hers toes in the lava?
Posted on 09/22/2007 5:22:32 PM PDT by syriacus
I have no problem with the TSA accosting her to make sure there was nothing untoward—indeed I’m glad they did. I do have a problem with pressing charges against someone essentially because she is a geek with way more of a clue about electrical engineering than social interactions or how things that are commonplace to folks in EE or computer engineering would look to a layman.
Why bother? We already have "anything liquid is a bomb."
-PJ
to Haleakala volcano and dangle hers toes in the lava?
10 YEARS HARD TIME for the artistic bomb girl who is definitely a slow learner.
Well, could it?
The problem is the circuit is unidentifiable, and when asked about is she simply walked away. That's suspicious behavior with an unidentified circuit attached to her clothes.
Oh, and the fist full of beige putty was also disconcerting.
Should they have detained and arrested her? Absolutely. Should they charge her with a felony? Nope, but they should send her a bill for a few dozen hours of police work on account of her stupid move...
It wasn’t a mistake, it was a criminal act and the stupid broad should spend SOME time in PRISON, not jail...Prison!
She's an idiot. Let her 'character' embrace prison.
It wasn’t a mistake, it was a criminal act and the stupid broad should spend SOME time in PRISON, not jail...Prison!This whole situation could have been taken straight out of the movie idiocracy. Americans need technical literacy and they need it fast. All this stuff with aqua teen leds and bread boards makes me embarassed to be american.
just one question....6 years ago ~ where did planes that caused so much death & destruction originate from???
No more suicide murderers in the US!!!
Describe for me what you think an improvised, expedient, expendable detonator circuit would look like and how you'd distinguish it from, say, a harmless circuit.
Here's a garage door opener I made at home. Does it look dangerous?
Engineering and science students aren’t traditionally known for artistic or humorous antics. However, an important part of the culture at MIT is “hacks”, for which there is even a museum and which have blended engineering and humor for many decades. Putting a circuit board on one’s t-shirt would be right in the tradition of making fun with technology. If we are so suppressed in our senses of humor that we condemn a 19 year old student trying to be a little humorous or artistic with technology then we have turned a once creative and innovative nation into a country of dour and fearful sheep. Some past MIT humor includes making a lightweight copy of a police car and planting at the very top of the domed building on campus, complete with a ticket on the window. Also, training a large flock of pigeons to associate a referee’s whistle with food—just in time for a big football game. Some past MIT creations have also included engineering creations such as the strobe lights used to photograph Normandy prior to the D-Day invasion, aircraft technology that keeps you safe, and many other things that make modern life good. Unless I hear something from this student that tells me she was trying to do something to hurt you or me, I won’t condemn her and I hope the culture of MIT doesn’t lose its sense of well-intended humor.
MIT grad
Art is a blast...hmmmph.
The stupid girl will get away with it, appear on all the talk shows, get a million $$ book contract, that the one clever defender of her here (another thread) will stand in line at midnight to get a copy of at $24.95. Notoriety does it in this crazy country! Soon, she’ll be touring the country selling her autographs with O.J. Simpson himself. Rosie Ruiz should have been so smart!
You made my point, unintentionally. A flashback...
| WASHINGTON -- Surveillance video from Washington's Dulles Airport the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, shows four of the five hijackers being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors but then permitted to board the fateful flight that later crashed into the Pentagon. The surveillance video, obtained by The Associated Press, shows an airport screener hand-checking the carryon baggage of one hijacker, Nawaf al-Hazmi, for traces of explosives before letting him continue onto American Airlines Flight 77 with his brother, Salem, a fellow hijacker. |
So, rentacops stopped, checked further into four of the five hijackers, and let them board. The security that existed provided zero safety for the aircraft or passengers. Since then, we've invested a billion dollars in security for our airports, and to show for it, we have zillions of stories of chefs being arrested after passing through screeners with their sets of knives, grannies being searched in the name of fairness, and no-fly lists that regularly tag the wrong people.
Sorry if I don't share your viewpoint, but airport security is the worst place to count on as a last line of defense. Do away with the TSA, make airlines responsible for their own security as a term of using their service, and use that money to hire real, professional investigators.
She looks like the kind of dork that thinks taunting security is great humor. She needs about 15 years at Graybar U to learn her trade.
[This whole situation could have been taken straight out of the movie idiocracy. Americans need technical literacy and they need it fast. All this stuff with aqua teen leds and bread boards makes me embarassed to be american.]
In the words of the Geico Neanderthal....HUH? What are you babbling about?
Oh, please! Doing an “MIT hack” at MIT is one thing; doing it at Logan Airport is a different matter.
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