Here's a new one... from the same city.
This EE student, obviously afflicted only by bad taste in fashion, made a lighted design with LEDs and taped it to her sweatshirt. See below for the picture.
Now, maybe her only mistake was walking into an airport with this, but please people. I have probably 20 breadboards like this covered in much more bomblike circuitry. Am I going to be arrested now for being in possession of a "hoax device"? Everyone says that people need to be more aware, we all need to help look out for terrorists. Fine. How about people also need to be educated on the basics of what terrorist activities really look like?Here are a few starters:
1) The circuitry involved to make a real bomb that runs on a 9 volt battery will be MUCH more complex than the one pictured above.
2) Terrorists don't scotch tape their bombs on the outside of their clothing.
3) There are a lot of gift shops in the Boston airport that sell cheesy light-up clothing that is scarier than her sweatshirt.
I would put these up on a readerboard somewhere for the general public to see, but I don't want to get arrested for planting a lighted bomb. Oh the irony!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/us/22airport.html?ref=us
-The Krunchy Krab
2 comments:
But what was the Play-Doh for? And why, if she was proud to display this particular work of art (as she said she was), simply turn and walk away when asked about it by the airline clerk? For a student at MIT, she sure doesn't seem very bright.
That's true, but then, most college freshmen aren't very bright. I suspect that yes, the play-doh was intended to make it look like something suspicious, perhaps she just didn't think about the possible implications if she really freaked someone out at the airport.
It sounds like she just tried to get out of the airport as quietly as possible after that.
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