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A Idiot Walks Into Logan With Fake Bomb
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Posted by  2007-09-21 11:42|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 "an idiot", not "a idiot". what, is English your second language or what...
Posted by oxford 101 2007-09-21 11:53||   2007-09-21 11:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Oxford 101 dear, when critiquing the language usage of others, 'tis best to be perfect oneself. Next time, please capitalize the first letter of the first word of each sentence. Thanks ever so!
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 12:02||   2007-09-21 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, there's one Star in the universe that's not very bright. If it was me, they're would be one bullet riddled MIT ditz blown all over the pavement at Logan.
I can hardly wait for her explanation. I'm thinking "performance artist" might be mentioned...
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-21 12:04||   2007-09-21 12:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Just remember, folks, this is the brightest of the brightest, the top 1% in their respective high school classes... taught to be complete idiots.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-09-21 12:05||   2007-09-21 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, and it may very well be [blank]'s second, or even nth language. A significant number of posters at Rantburg are neither native English speakers (whether American standard, British standard, or one of the many other accepted dialects), nor citizens of an English-speaking country, nor even resident in one. Or it might simply be a typographical error, to which imperfect persons are more or less prone.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 12:06||   2007-09-21 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Give that man a cigar!

BOSTON - An MIT student with a fake bomb strapped to her chest was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said.

Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport.

"She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day," Pare said at a news conference. "She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it."

The device had wires connected to a battery, allowing it to light up, he said. Simpson also had Play-Doh in her hands, he said.
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-21 12:07||   2007-09-21 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Fox video here.
Posted by mrp 2007-09-21 12:07||   2007-09-21 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 MIT. Home on the one hand to Lincoln Labs and on the other to Noam Chomsky.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-21 12:09||   2007-09-21 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Great. I hope she can someday say that she spent a few years in jail for the sake of her art.
Posted by DoDo 2007-09-21 12:10||   2007-09-21 12:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe she could hold art seminars in the slammer, whilst chowing down on three square meals a day at our expense.
Posted by Bobby 2007-09-21 12:15||   2007-09-21 12:15|| Front Page Top

#11 I can see that the silly girl did this in all innocence - and innocense in its other sense of unworldliness is the best explanation I think.

There is such a thing as circuit board art - when I used to go to computer swap meets there were sometimes people selling kits for these things. Its definitely a geek thing - as is carrying around play-dough. I doubt very much that she intended anyone to think that all this amounted to a bomb, rather I doubt that the idea that someone could take it for a bomb crossed her mind.

But the times are not right for such obliviousness.
Posted by buwaya 2007-09-21 12:19||   2007-09-21 12:19|| Front Page Top

#12 
Her best educational experience will be four years in jail. Bye, bye MIT.
Posted by Master of Obvious 2007-09-21 12:26||   2007-09-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Mod, sorry for the duplicate submission.

I flew through Logan last month on a trip to Europe and had to go through the checkpoint.
Wife, kids and myself. Coats and jackets, shoes and belts off, complete package and baggage search, walk-through detector; the whole lot. Multiple layers of guards and TSA staff to pass by.

Got bagged, because of a plastic bag containing liquid soap and mouthwash showed up on the scanner. TSA folks told me that I had to have removed it from the travel bag first before putting in the scanner.

This chick is a freakin moron!!!
Posted by Delphi 2007-09-21 12:31||   2007-09-21 12:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Bye, bye MIT.

I wouldn't count on it. This is Massachusetts. Deval Patrick will just call it another "failure of human understanding" and she'll end up making shiny light thingys for retarded kids with the Aquateen Hunger Force idiots from last year...
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-21 12:41||   2007-09-21 12:41|| Front Page Top

#15 As P.J. O'Rourke said:

"It takes an elite eductation plus years of psychotherapy to be this stupid".

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2007-09-21 12:44||   2007-09-21 12:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Waiting for the lawsuit from this ditzy chick:
"Yer Honor they wuz staring at my chest, and that offends me deeply, even tho' i am pretty proud of these babies(jiggles hooters)"
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-21 12:56||   2007-09-21 12:56|| Front Page Top

#17 excuse me, someone may already have asked, but why ISN'T she dead???

Posted by Justrand 2007-09-21 13:17||   2007-09-21 13:17|| Front Page Top

#18 A woman arrested Friday for carrying a fake bomb into Boston's Logan airport is an MIT computer whiz who loves "crazy ideas" and "saving the planet from evil villains," according to her blog on a Web site hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Get the coat with the long arms ready.

In her blog, MIT student Star Simpson says she is "currently studying computers and how they work." Simpson also participates in MIT's MITER project, a student run electronics engineering workshop. An MIT spokeswoman on Friday confirmed that Simpson is currently enrolled in the school's famed computer science program. The spokeswoman could not say whether the school is contemplating any disciplinary action against Simpson. "It's too early to say," she said. The spokeswoman said MIT is planning to release a formal statement on the matter.

"She's crazy, Jim"

Simpson's blog indicates she previously lived in Hawaii. It reveals a personality that could be described as quirky. She writes that she previously spent time "traveling the world and saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets."
Posted by Steve 2007-09-21 13:29||   2007-09-21 13:29|| Front Page Top

#19 Or it might simply be a typographical error, to which imperfect persons are more or less prone.

I blame Fred's spellchecker. Or my fat fingers, or global warming..
Posted by Steve 2007-09-21 13:31||   2007-09-21 13:31|| Front Page Top

#20 And just where does she get the large amount of cash to "Travel the World" not to mention MIT,
Betcha she turns out to be a "Inherited Rich", moron.
(Singing) You can rely on the old man's Money, You can rely on the old man's money, you're a rich girl, A bitch girl, yeah, you're a rich bitch girl. Say money, money won't get you too far, get you too far today.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-21 13:44||   2007-09-21 13:44|| Front Page Top

#21 More Coffee, can't even remember all the words.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-21 13:49||   2007-09-21 13:49|| Front Page Top

#22 Sitting here wondering how Star's gonna get home to Hawaii; 'cause the very, very least that should happen is her name should go at the top of the "no fly" list.
Posted by GK 2007-09-21 14:23||   2007-09-21 14:23|| Front Page Top

#23 an MIT computer whiz who loves "crazy ideas" and "saving the planet from evil villains,"

There is no possible way to spin this event into some sort of innocent act. Anyone as intelligent as this young woman must obviously be is fully aware of the current security issues at all major airports. Even if this was a publicity stunt, it still represents an abuse of the common weal. I can only call this "terrorism lite". Several years in jail are needed to ensure that no one else mimics this moron. Walking around with an intentionally simulated bomb simply has ZERO redeeming social value and only serves to desensitize the public regarding how important constant vigilance continues to be. Anything but a stint of hard time will be a total miscarriage of justice.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-21 14:52||   2007-09-21 14:52|| Front Page Top

#24 I also have to agree with Justrand. The police would have been fully justified in shooting this woman on sight to prevent her from detonating the device in public.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-21 14:56||   2007-09-21 14:56|| Front Page Top

#25 It is this leftist, and her fellow traveller George Soros, who are the REAL evil villians.

Two in the hat would have been a better way to deal with her.
Posted by no mo uro 2007-09-21 15:29||   2007-09-21 15:29|| Front Page Top

#26 "I blame Fred's spellchecker. Or my fat fingers, or global warming.. "

You missed the obligatory "blame Bush," #19 Steve. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-09-21 15:30|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-09-21 15:30|| Front Page Top

#27 I am going to say something totally different. Its okay as I already ticked off a lot of folks.

Without the DAMNED attacks by ISLAM this would be an OKAY BEHAVIOR!

Its good for students to experiment and new ideas and modes to be developed. This is ISLAM constraining our society!

Another reason why Zenster's responses look better and better to this citizen.

Its a freedom that as been lost because of the MOFOS in the MIDEAST!

Maybe Death to the great SATAN should be turned around.
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 15:37||   2007-09-21 15:37|| Front Page Top

#28 Needing to constrain and arrest her is an example of us falling into Dhimmitude
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 15:39||   2007-09-21 15:39|| Front Page Top

#29 From Dhimmi Watch

Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, is part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.

The dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today.

But in this era of global terrorism this silence and distortion has become deadly.


If we just said "NO MUSLIMS MAY FLY" %90 of this problem would go away.
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 15:42||   2007-09-21 15:42|| Front Page Top

#30 I had a girlfriend at Bell Labs who kept getting promoted up the management ladder because she could actually talk to normal people, she generally walked forward, and she came out of her office during the daytime. Her husband had to tie her shoes, though, as she'd never learnt how. Last I heard, she was a director. This poor girl probably is still confused about just what happened, and why.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-21 15:44||   2007-09-21 15:44|| Front Page Top

#31 
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-21 15:48||   2007-09-21 15:48|| Front Page Top

#32 I can tell ya a story about a famous MIT graduate. We'll call him Mr. K. I interviewed at his company one time and they said one of the great pastimes was telling Mr. K stories. One they told me was when Mr. K made it big he decided to celebrate and go out and buy a new top end Jaguar, which lasted him a year before he blew it up since he didn't know that you had to change the oil in it.
Just because they're geniuses don't necessarily mean they have a clue about anything else but what they're geniuses at...
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-21 15:51||   2007-09-21 15:51|| Front Page Top

#33 "an idiot", not "a idiot". what, is English your second language or what...

Just like a liberal. Worried about form over substance. Nice smackdown, TW.

Oxfraud: Here's a hint: Look at the meaning behind the werds, not the wurds themselves. If you have to resort to nitpicking about spelling and the like then that will be a barrier that keeps you from getting to the substance. Or maybe that's your hard-limit. My guess is that it's the latter because I haven't seen one word of substance from you yet even though you have had more than one good opportunity. Come to the party.
Posted by gorb 2007-09-21 16:00||   2007-09-21 16:00|| Front Page Top

#34 Simpson was charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device. A not guilty plea was entered for her and she was released on $750 bail.

During the hearing, Simpson smiled as she entered wearing a T-shirt and sandals. After she posted bail, she left in a taxi with a man who identified himself as her boyfriend, but neither would answer more questions from reporters.

Oh, yeah. I'm sure she'll be breaking rocks for years...
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-21 16:10||   2007-09-21 16:10|| Front Page Top

#35 Nice. All you guys come to ""'s defence after Frank G has wantonly picked at every nit I have ever posted. But did anybody ever come to my defence? Noooooo.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-21 16:11||   2007-09-21 16:11|| Front Page Top

#36 Weren't grammar and spelling flames banned during the Usenet years?
Posted by eLarson 2007-09-21 16:19|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-09-21 16:19|| Front Page Top

#37 a real circuit board fashion dress

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 16:19||   2007-09-21 16:19|| Front Page Top

#38 One of the evil things about the war on terror is that being pretty and young and blond and dumb and female, with a nice pair of hooters, is no longer a legal defense.

Does she want to be a Whitehouse intern when the Dems come to power next year?
Posted by whatadeal 2007-09-21 16:23||   2007-09-21 16:23|| Front Page Top

#39 Without the DAMNED attacks by ISLAM this would be an OKAY BEHAVIOR!

I could not agree with you more. Islam has imposed a fundamental loss of innocence upon our world that amounts to a crime against all humanity.

Its good for students to experiment and new ideas and modes to be developed. This is ISLAM constraining our society!

However questionable Simpson's incredibly stupid act was, it is far more damning that the bulk of Western civilization still refuses to demand an end to Islam's predation upon personal freedom. Constraints such as this one are but a tiny fragment of the overall damage being done to our world. I still maintain that a new 9-11 atrocity is caused by Islam every single day. The astounding amount of resources being diverted by the fight against Islam could be applied to far better causes such as ending world hunger, eradicating AIDS and polio, stopping illiteracy and many other such noble agendas. Instead, each day another 3,000 or more people needlessly die because we must direct our attention to thwarting a gang of religious bullies with delusions of global domination.

It is this totally unwarranted consumption of international resources that steadily erodes my opposition to first use of nuclear weapons to annihilate Islam. Muslims are bleeding our world white through the death of a thousand papercuts. It is a vampire culture that engages in the very worst abuse of human rights and remains entirely without even the least redeeming features.

Another reason why Zenster's responses look better and better to this citizen.

Thank you for your support, 3dc. The West needs to get over its admittedly civilized compunctions about permanently halting Islam's assault upon all that is worthy and decent about our modern culture. We are insane to put up with such a foul attack on individual liberty and the democratic process as a whole. One way or another, this farce must end.

Its a freedom that as been lost because of the MOFOS in the MIDEAST!

Le bingo. If there is a root cause of this civilizational conflict, it is Islam. Not Western intolerance or "Islamophobia" [spit]. As Crusader takes such great pains to point out, "Islam is the problem. Islam has always been the problem."
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-21 16:24||   2007-09-21 16:24|| Front Page Top

#40 Heh, How many of you even wear clothes with slogans on them?

How about a t-shirt with a collage?

Star Simpson has to be a little weak in the imaginnation dept to do what she did at an airport.

Airports, Nuke facilities, etc. are the last place to fool around acting like a kid pulling off stunts.

Why?

Police are very dependant on their leadership to set the correct group attitude when they are acting in group dynamics together.

Without good leadership, if y'all haven't noticed, Police under stress in a GROUP can act just like a gang ... true examples: 25 rounds through a single perp. single suspect is beat down by 15 officers etc.

Heh, to their defense, they deal with the scum of the Earth every day, so they get an attitude about the public.

LOL!

BTW, Her depiction of a bomb is so f'n bad, that if I were the head Airport cop, I woulda just given her a ticket for BAD ART!
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-21 16:32||   2007-09-21 16:32|| Front Page Top

#41 NS - that's because I'm teasing, or did you not notice the

/pedantic asshole

at the bottom? :-)
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-09-21 16:34||   2007-09-21 16:34|| Front Page Top

#42 O jesus om gawg

are you going to go on a Islam rant on this thread too

"stuck on stupid"?
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-21 16:55||   2007-09-21 16:55|| Front Page Top

#43 What are the airports to do when fabrics like this are all over:


Philips Lumalive textiles light up the catwalk
or her new fashion collection, the acclaimed German fashion designer Anke Loh has chosen to use the innovative light-emitting fabric from Philips called Lumalive textiles. Lumalive textiles contain LEDs that display full color moving images on clothing.

example:
or "Flexible Transistors for Your clothes" like
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 17:01||   2007-09-21 17:01|| Front Page Top

#44 wild electronic clothes stuff here

examples include: UV Detecting Bikini, Display Jacket, Wearable Computing, LED Shirt, Heated Gloves, Motorola/Burton Audex Jackets, Levi's iPod "RedWire DLX" Jeans, undershirts that have a panel of heating fabric, a shirt that is designed to register intimate words whispered into the wearer's ear.Wearable Displays

NOTE NONE OF THESE fashion statements can make it though an airport in these days of Dhimmitude.

The end result will be ALL NUDE flying with body paints quickly disallowed as they could be printed circuits.

Yuck.

Just put Islam in its place!
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 17:10||   2007-09-21 17:10|| Front Page Top

#45 BTW 3dc, I wasn't refering to you.

;-)
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2007-09-21 17:13||   2007-09-21 17:13|| Front Page Top

#46 Never mind.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-21 17:16||   2007-09-21 17:16|| Front Page Top

#47 Thanks Red Dog - But I am really worried that this PC correct response is already constraining our cultural growth and evolution options too much.
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 17:17||   2007-09-21 17:17|| Front Page Top

#48 Thank you for the snark, trailing wife. I see that Oxford 101 also busted the ellipses.

/Fail.
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-09-21 18:33||   2007-09-21 18:33|| Front Page Top

#49 I've been to MIT. Got thrown out of the MIT Bar.
There really are people who are very smart in mathematics, electronics, physics, etc. who really don't understand what goes on around them.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-09-21 19:04||   2007-09-21 19:04|| Front Page Top

#50 It has been incredibly stupid behavior since the 1970s to show up at the airport with ANYTHING that even resembles a bomb - or have all the complainers forgotten about all those hijackings back then? Also, people have been arrested and sentenced to jail for making hijack "jokes" in airports even BEFORE 9/11. Personally, I think the dumb bitch should have taken two to the head, just to be sure she wasn't a suicide bomber. This is the typical eroding attack behavior of fellow travelers to get the authorities to drop their guard and say "Jeez, another dumb student prank" just before the vest full of C-4 and ball bearings goes off in the visitors lounge.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-09-21 19:24||   2007-09-21 19:24|| Front Page Top

#51 She already made it to Darwin awards.
Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-21 20:40|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info]  2007-09-21 20:40|| Front Page Top

#52 But I am really worried that this PC correct response is already constraining our cultural growth and evolution options too much.

What part of 'war' are you having a problem comprehending?
Posted by Pappy 2007-09-21 21:09||   2007-09-21 21:09|| Front Page Top

#53 
Boston needs to switch to decaf.
Posted by DMFD 2007-09-21 21:21||   2007-09-21 21:21|| Front Page Top

#54 mmmm....donuts
Posted by Homer 2007-09-21 21:34||   2007-09-21 21:34|| Front Page Top

#55 Pappy.
That the response to Islam puts us into a constraining so many of our actions but no constraints are applied on the religion at fault.

Will we have to be constrained forever and always have the terrorists in the back of our minds?

If so then perhaps the suffering on the terror support side needs to be ramped up each year until it is never repeated. More than just what the military can do.

I don't know what the answer is but it really upsets me that this perverse religion can inflict constant trauma on the whole planet.
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-21 21:36||   2007-09-21 21:36|| Front Page Top

#56 Will we have to be constrained forever and always have the terrorists in the back of our minds?

6 years so far isn't 'forever'. This is the Long War - we either come to grips with that or we give up. Fighting this unconventional war without bringing the West to its knees economically, politically and socially is going to take patience, persistence and endurance.

The 'nuke them all' option is another form of 'give up', at least at this point. It will be a generation until this is played out.

That's the Joint Chiefs' take and I think they're right. We can live without mock bombs on overprivileged kids at the airport and not suffer too very much of our liberties and our creativity IMO.

On the other hand we had better keep a very close eye on Latin America because Islamicists aren't the only serious threat to us now that the 20th century geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting irrevocably.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-21 21:49||   2007-09-21 21:49|| Front Page Top

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