[AndyJackson]

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..

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.

[jim35]

“You are a dolt. It doesn’t look like a bomb. It has nothing that either resembles detonators or high explosives.”

You are mistaken. A detonator can be a wire inserted into a handful of plastique. Without searching this person, you can’t reasonably ascertain the true nature of it. And modeling clay very much resembles high explosive. Much like you very much resemble a jerk. Or as another poster put it, a “pompous windbag.”

“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...”

I don’t know why Washington hasn’t called on you for your bomb identification expertise. Unfortunately, we can’t all be such experts on instant bomb vs. hoax vs. art recognition.

“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.”

And just how would you know what a reasonable person would do? Read about one once?

“Then there is the little problem of intent.”

And just what inside knowledge do you have of the intent here?

Or could it be that you are just a pompous windbag?

[FreedomCalls]

You are a dolt. It doesn't look like a bomb. It has nothing that either resembles detonators or high explosives.

The Play Doh damned sure did look like high explosive. From one of the cops on duty there:

“What was the Play-Doh all about?”

The state cop who posed the question was not on duty at Logan International Airport on Friday morning when his colleagues trained their machine guns on Star Anna Simpson, a 19-year-old goofball genius from MIT.

But his intimate knowledge of Logan’s fail-safe procedures left him more disturbed by the Play-Doh than the circuit board or blinking lights fastened to the front of the sophomore’s sweatshirt.

“You train for hours and hours,” the cop explained, “you train against the possibility of numerous (explosive) devices. And when it comes to preparing for plastic explosives, what we use to simulate C-4 is Play-Doh. It’s the same texture.