MIT Student Arrested For Fake Bomb At Logan

WBZ TV ^ | Sep 21, 2007 | AP

[Erik Latranyi]

(AP) BOSTON An MIT student has been arrested at gunpoint after allegedly walking into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest this morning.

State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing.

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[Erik Latranyi]

Liberal loonie, most likely.

[Al Gator]

15 minutes of fame?

[Rummyfan]

State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing.

Plainly put, she's nuts!

[PAR35]

A token of affection from a muslim boyfriend?

[Erik Latranyi]

A link to the student’s profile.

http://mitathletics.cstv.com/sports/w-swim/mtt/simpson_star00.html

[NativeNewYorker]

http://stars.mit.edu/me.html

[marvlus]

I’ve got to believe there will be major repercussions for her for pulling this kind of a stunt!

[tsmith130]

Beat me by THAT much! ;o)

How does someone that stupid get into MIT?

[Erik Latranyi]

Student’s MIT profile.

http://stars.mit.edu/me.html

[TChris]

"In a sentence, I'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas. "

Well, that was sure a crazy idea, wasn't it? Hope you feel fulfilled.

[evets]

Play bomber!

[Al Gator]

There has just GOT to be more to this story.

Her profile saya a lot, but nothing about wanting to do a dime for the state.

[Artemis Webb]

To get into MIT she must be very smart. She also has zero common sense and I have no doubt it will cost her dearly.

[VOA]

“Plainly put, she’s nuts!”

She’s on the swim team...maybe it’s water on the brain.
(/sarc)

[F15Eagle]

boy, (girl) was *that* stupid ...

[ketsu]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled MIT Student Arrested For Fake Bomb At Logan, tsmith130 wrote: Beat me by THAT much! ;o)

How does someone that stupid get into MIT?

Have you ever met an MIT student? Super high IQ, "special needs" EQ.

[Erik Latranyi]

Parents names her Star.....child of hippies, most likely.

[Jeff Head]

She can dream up her “crazy ideas” for the next 20 in the gray rock resort.

[shankbear]

Maybe she is just a crazy bitch.

[minus_273]

actually MIT has a VERY high suicide rate.

[colorcountry]

....I love to build things and I love crazy ideas.

Well THAT explains it!

[CougarGA7]

Oh, I can’t wait to here her excuse as to why she did this.

It should be a goodie.

[Beelzebubba]

[F15Eagle]

In a sentence, I'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas.

Well, honey, you just cornered the market on "crazy" today ...

[r9etb]

There has just GOT to be more to this story.

Why? She's a 19-yo MIT engineering student. They're big into "engineering pranks." I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that it was nothing more than that ... a really, really stupid prank.

[nhoward14]

GUILTY!!!!!!!!

[ketsu]

To get into MIT she must be very smart. She also has zero common sense and I have no doubt it will cost her dearly.

That kind of civil disobedience performance art won't mean a whit in silicon valley. As hard as it is to believe she'll always be employable.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

MIT?

She’s not gonna like how THIS experiment turns out.

[Cvengr]

Judge should give her max sentence with the option to suspend if she joins the Marines, goes to Iraq and dismantles IEDs.

[SuperSonic]

From her student page:

In a word: Star.

In a sentence, I'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas.

In a paragraph; I'm currently studying computers and how they work at MIT. I play at a student-run machine shop called MITERS. Before that, I lived for a long time in Hawaii, while traveling the world and saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets.

You too can fill my email lint-trap - stars at mit dot edu

[Erik Latranyi]

If I had seen her walk into the airport like that, she would probably be very disfigured or worse.

[F15Eagle]

dang I was busy highlighting and underlining the same quote and you beat me to it

[Hoodlum91]

fake bomb in boston? Aqua Teen Hunger Force comes to mind.

Or a crazy lady.

[evets]

[Erik Latranyi]

You too can fill my email lint-trap - stars at mit dot edu

It's a good thing she is going to have a lot of free time to read all the e-mail she is going to get.....

I wonder if Larry King has already sent her an invitation?

[massgopguy]

Sometimes the little genius’ die because they cross the Charles when it is “frozen”. Then they find their bodies in Cohasett. Star should have about 90 days at Bridgewater State to tell the doctors about her “crazy ideas”.

[Al Gator]

These engineer types sometimes are very, very confused politically.

Maybe she was showing solidarity with jihad mommas who’s definition of a strap-on has a different meaning.

IMHO

[Procyon]

Is she going to look this hot after she gets out of the ‘pen? What a waste of good genes.

[nhoward14]

That girl hasn’t earned the right to the title “engineer” yet.

[MinuteGal]

Her photo sure fits the profile of a liberal hippie flower child......all hair and no boobs.

Leni

[Sloth]

As hard as it is to believe she'll always be employable.

After she gets out of prison.

[tsmith130]

Have you ever met an MIT student? Super high IQ, "special needs" EQ.

I have actually and you're right.

BTW...Why does your quote of my post appear that way? I've never seen that before on here.

[mollynme]

actually MIT has a VERY high suicide rate.

My first thought was that this was an attempted suicide by cop.

[Tijeras_Slim]

White play dough looks a lot like C4.

[dmz]

Parents names her Star.....child of hippies, most likely.
________

LOL. So your parents were Vikings?

[ketsu]

I have actually and you're right.

BTW...Why does your quote of my post appear that way? I've never seen that before on here.

I use the blockquote html tag. old habit. Give it try :)

[Al Gator]

“BTW...Why does your quote of my post appear that way? I’ve never seen that before on here.”

BaHa! the mysteries of HTML!

[Roberts]

So smart, and yet so dumb.

[massgopguy]

I hope she’ll enjoy the Machine Shop at MCI-Framingham

[OCCASparky]

The main difference between her and ATHF is her walking into an airport with plastique-looking material and the other was a few flashing lights.