Posted on 09/22/2007 8:55:30 AM PDT by RogerFGay
I think the only idiot here is Star Simpson.
Roger F. Gay
yes, he sounds gay...
anyone this stupid should be held in custody for their own protection.
does he really think in the day and age it is OK to walk around with a printed circuit board and battery- because it is obviously not a bomb? how dumb can you get?
Maybe the right shirt, but wrong place to wear it. Too many itchy fingers in the airport, she is lucky she is not worm bait.
This kind of crap adds more aggravation to an already long as^ lines we travelers experience going through security.
Someone explain to that idiot bombs can be brought in pieces and then assembled.
Duh.
Yeah, I feel the same way. Like, I don't get people who do stupid things in airports and then say it was just a joke....
susie
I recall standing in line at a TWA check in back in 1985 while the man in front of me argued with the agent because they wouldn’t let the man’s 10 year old son carry on, as hand baggage, a replica arab rifle that he was carrying. Their argument was that it was too fragile (it was plastic) to check as baggage so they want to put it in the overhead.
While this argument was going on, the TV behind the agent was showing the TWA Beirut hi-jacking in progress...
Some people have no sense.
radio shack breadboard with a dozen LEDs, probably a 555 timer, and some play-dough.
nonetheless, this alleged whiz-kid knows perfectly well what this stunt signifies, as well as her disdain for security, and her warped and cynical sense of humor....which may all combine to produce an adult with real or imagined grievances. As such, she must be placed on every terror and travel watchlist that exists. She has victimized everything necessary for safe air-travel in (perhaps, perhaps not) a cynical act, so let her live with the consequences.
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Even our liberal local news talking-head said “She’s normally very bright, but yesterday did something very stupid”...
Hey gang. She didn’t say it was a joke. She just went to the airport to pick up a friend. She’s a girl - the sweat shirt was probably for her friend’s benefit.
Assuming you are the same person that wrote the article, are you aware of something that happened about six years and 11 days ago, that originated from the same Logan airport in Boston? Two planes, destined for Los Angeles (my home city), that took a permanent and fatal detour into two very tall buildings that no longer exist (nor do the people inside them)?
I ask, because nowhere in your article is Logan Airport’s connection with 9/11 even mentioned.
Is it possible - since we’re talking about education and possibilities - that a place with such a history, whose calendar date has just been remembered worldwide, just MIGHT be justifiably edgy about someone doing what stated rules explicitly forbid - making a joke? Or, worse yet, “wearing” a joke?
To paraphrase a certain senator from New York, to expect the officials at the airport to do otherwise would require “the willing suspension of disbelief”.
Star Simpson (No relation to Bart)
This all happened at Logan International in Boston?
Is this the same Logan International that 9-11 flights originated from?
Is this the same Logan International that allowed the terrorist muslims to
commandeer flights that were used as missiles to launch an attack on the USA?
I would have to say, if the answer to any or all of the above questions is "YES" then:
Maybe shes a freakin' idiot that needs
to be locked up for her own good.
They didn’t overreact, because she’s still alive. And lucky in that.
In the instant that an officer notices her “artwork” on her hoodie there is but a mere flash of a moment to decide what to do. He doesn’t have *time* to carefully inspect the circuit board, wiring and battery and assess whether it is really a bomb, or just looks like it might be one.
That he didn’t instantly opt for a head shot is really lucky for her, but it was a huge risk taken by the cop on the chance that ~maybe~ it wasn’t an immediate threat. So he was lucky too.
The next cop in a similar situation may not be so lucky.
“some play-dough.”
And why the play-dough? I spent two years in electronics classes. I don’t recall us ever using play-dough.
The play-dough blows her story apart, no pun intended.
Shes described as a supersmart student, athlete and inventor, but even her mother said Star Anna Simpsons circuit-board stunt at Logan International Airport yesterday was as dim as it gets.
It was a stupid kids prank, Stephanie Simpson told the Herald by phone from Hawaii. While the maneuver almost landed her daughter in a body bag, Simpson insisted Star had no ill intent whatsoever, but declined to comment further.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology classmates described the 19-year-old brainiac as a strange, kindhearted character who walks city streets barefoot and shaved her head last year so she could donate her hair to charity.
After being nabbed at gunpoint, Simpson told authorities she created the piece of art so shed stand out at MITs career fair, and shed been wearing it for days.
She marches to the beat of her own drum, said Caine Jette, 19, an MIT sophomore and member of the schools Hawaii Club. I dont think this was intentional.
Simpson told authorities she had gone to Logan to meet her boyfriend, Tim Anderson, 42, a retired 3-D printer inventor who lives in California. His father, James Anderson, said he spoke to his son, who told him Simpson was transporting an art project.
I suspect shes frightened to death, James Anderson told the Herald. She seemed like a very timid, quiet kind of person.
James Anderson said his son met Simpson while she was interning at Squid Labs in Alameda, Calif. Tim Anderson invented a 3-D printer with a partner at MIT, formed a company to market it and later sold the company, his father said.
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http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/5af98d8426_prof09222007.jpg
Once again - she didn’t say it was a joke. The phrase “Socket to me” was supposed to be a play on words, but that’s the only humor associated with the known facts. What about a radio? A radio could be a bomb. The wrapping around a McD’s hamburger could be used as an insulator on a sophisticated device that’s being moved in piece by piece to assemble a bomb. There are batteries in iPods, cell phones, digital cameras ..... Why get upset over her piece of plastic? Is it just because news reports told you it was a “fake bomb” - Star Simpson never described it that way.
Never assume goobermint employees are smart enough to get a joke.
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