I dunno about those tennis shoes. Maybe the blink pattern indicates the TATP charge is armed. Better call the SWAT team.
And as far as radios, one of these took out 270 people back in 1988:
Looks real dangerous, doesn't it?
“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.
You are a dolt. It doesn't look like a bomb. It has nothing that either resembles detonators or high explosives.
All of the above devices have been used by terrorists to infiltrate an IED into protected areas, EXCEPT a little electronic bread-board with flashing LEDs in the shape of a star worn around the neck.
A reasonable person fears things that experience has shown may lead to harm and does not fear things that experience has shown do not lead to harm.
Then there is the little problem of intent.
I dunno about those tennis shoes. Maybe the blink pattern indicates the TATP charge is armed. Better call the SWAT team.
And as far as radios, one of these took out 270 people back in 1988:
Looks real dangerous, doesn't it?