Well, I can't argue that point. What do you expect from the group who confiscated tons of ordinary, no nail file, nail clippers (I still haven't figured out how to use them as a deadly weapon, and that one stumped everyone I know).
Maybe it was not a ''stunt', maybe just unintended consequences.
But were I bent on mayhem and destruction, I'd use whatever worked.
I'd send up trial balloons and see what skated and what did not.
What, in your view, would be the purpose of flashing LEDs in a terrorist device?
If that meant something which looked so much like a hollywood bomb prop that it got dismissed as harmless, would get by security, I'd do whatever works if I were a terrorist.
That is the situation that leaves bureaucrats ordering their minions to detain and investigate things they may not understand.
Which keeps us waiting in line longer.
When I was in Grand Forks, every two or three years some college kid would get swacked on the weekend and go see what their tax dollars were doing out there on the praire.
They never made it to the fence around the silo.
The security team likely knew pretty much what they were dealing with, and after a very unpleasant (and likely hungover) weekend (for the nitwit), they usually released the nitwit to tell everyone not to pull that stunt, and were good to go without stupid, avoidable false alarms for another year or two.
It did not matter that the chances of one drunk on foot doing significant damage to a hardened nuclear facility were pretty slim.
They were armed, no doubt ready to shoot, but showed professional restraint.
Yes, I understand the difference. My bet is that she did not even realize that the 93% would get their selves all a flutter over what she considered art. But who knows?
Perhaps "upset" was a poor choice of words. It would indicate they are not in control, which they assure us they are.
When you have defense in depth, like you do at a nuclear facility, or at an airport the boobs and nitwits are caught many layers before they have a chance of posing a genuine threat, which as loan individual they don't really do anyway.
No professional security force outside of an active war zone, confronted by a lone individual, just "shoots first and asks questions later." Not if they want to avoid jail or a lifetime of indebtedness to their lawyer.