She isn't being charged with having a bomb -- she is being charged with having a hoax device that was intended to resemble a bomb to non-experts in order to create a panic among the travelers at the airport. If you were to bundle some road flares together with duct tape and put an LED blinky on it would you be let go if you were caught placing it on the steps of your local courthouse or would you be charged with a crime?
Oh really. You know that was her intention how? She screamed I have a bomb and will blow the whole place up? She ran around waiving her arms around like a mad mozzie gurgling boom sounding sounds? Please tell me. I really want to know.
Furthermore, it sounds as though she did a really poor job at creating panic since it sounds as though no one panicked except some state troopers on the safe end of a lot of firepower.
If you were to bundle some road flares together with duct tape and put an LED blinky on it would you be let go if you were caught placing it on the steps of your local courthouse or would you be charged with a crime?
Suppose instead of deliberately concocting something that looks like it is composed of sticks of TNT, I do something that does not really look like a bomb. Suppose I put one of those blinking buzzing christmas card things on the courthouse steps singing Merry Christmas? Am I guilty of a crime? Suppose, even though no expert thinks it is a bomb, and I didn't think it was a bomb, but merely wished to entertain the local bums, you think it is a bomb because you don't know what a bomb looks like. Is it a crime?