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MIT student goes to Logan Airport with fake bomb - IDIOT!

September 21, 2007

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The headline says all you need to know. This morning an MIT student went to Logan Airport in Boston with a fake bomb strapped to her back.  She said it was a piece of art.

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 battery-powered rectangular device had nine flashing lights, he said. Simpson also had Play-Doh in her hands, he said.

The phrases “Socket to me” and “Course VI” were written on the back of sweat shirt, which authorities displayed to the media. Course VI appears to be a reference to MIT’s major of electrical engineering and computer science.

Simpson pleaded not guilty to a charge of possessing a hoax device at her arraignment in East Boston District Court Friday afternoon. She was released on $750 bail and ordered to stay away from Logan Airport.

I’m assuming that she is pretty intelligent as she does go to MIT. However, she is defintitely libNOT.com’s idiot of the day! She’s lucky she’s in a jail cell and she wasn’t shot.

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One Response to “MIT student goes to Logan Airport with fake bomb - IDIOT!”

  1. Nico on September 21st, 2007 3:22 pm

    “Airport Employees, Police Mistake Electrical Artwork on Sweatshirt for Bomb, Call It ‘Fake Bomb’ to Spread Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt”

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