Well, since the flashing LED's are clearly not a detonator as half the passenger traffic through Boston Logan (one of three leading education and technology centers in the US) could have told these idiot security hacks, then what is the purpose of the Play-Doh? I think they need to answer and explain their perfervid paranoid imaginings before she needs to say a word.
If I traveled with my 3-year old son (back when he was 3) with a Playschool radio (which is a whole lot more suspicious a decoy than a breadboard w/flashing LED's) and a can of playdoh, am I resposonsible for "causing alarm?" Or is the fault a bunch of sub 100 IQ security weenies who work security because they don't have the brains to get a job that is even slightly more interesting than rifling through bags of dirty linen.
I'm glad you have the ability to see through opaque objects to tell what is or is not fastened to the back of it. I'm one of the many folks in the country that can't.
And, by the way, glad to know that if you were running security, you would have let through the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 (a radio boom box and explosive).
On the other hand, if you pulled the stunt with a radio and Play Doh, if I was on the jury, you could expect a rather long time to contemplate your actions while enjoying federal hospitality.
“Or is the fault a bunch of sub 100 IQ security weenies who work security because they don’t have the brains...”
You, sir, are an elitist snob, and likely not fit to shine the shoes of these men and women who daily take their lives in their hands, and provide that fine line of defense between civilization and chaos.
I suggest it stems from a substandard IQ.