She'll now be able to add a new word to her list of accomplishments: criminal.
The self-descriptive text and pictures at her web page makes her sound like an intelligent but goofy kid. Giving her a massive benefit of doubt for youthful immaturity, my sense is that the "device" was probably was meant to be a joke on the friend she was picking up.
Guess she failed to notice that jokes of this type are out in the age of terrorism. She's damn lucky, damn lucky not to be dead.
Your post is the kindest, gentlest take on this incident.
Go look at the pictures of the device. No, the cops are damn lucky they didn't shoot her, because it looks nothing like a bomb.