It wasn't a bomb. She took no steps to try to persuade anyone that it was a bomb, but because security folks deluded themselves into thinking it might be a bomb she gets to go to prison.
I just looked out the window to the street. My car has a blinking red light going on inside. I suppose I should be locked up because it could be construed as a bomb by an itinerant donut muncher. Of course, it might look like the standard security alarm that comes as standard equipment on all late model cars, but once terrorists figure that out they could take off the shelf autos and wire them up to be bombs we are all in trouble. Other than the fact that there is nothing to make you think it is a bomb, the flashing red light is a great disguise because it looks just like a normal car.
So our security folks should go around blowing up normal looking cars, with that blinking red security light, to assure terrorists that they cannot hide bombs in normal looking cars.
Then we need to arrest the owners for staging a hoax and causing our donut munchers to become "alarmed."
“My car has a blinking red light going on inside. I suppose I should be locked up...”
No. What this fool was displaying looked like a bomb, maybe not the best bomb, maybe not even a good bomb, but it could credibly be seen as a possible bomb.
The blinking red light in your car couldn’t; a pair of blinking tennis shoes couldn’t; a radio couldn’t; none of the other innocuous items you love to list could be credibly mistaken as a bomb by your average citizen.
What this girl was wearing, combined with the carrying of what could be mistaken for plastique? That looked like a bomb. Not a great bomb, but at first glance that would be the first thing an average person would say it looks like.
Allow me to reiterate. You are a moron.