Fake Bomb Charge an Overreaction?

Should stupidity be made a crime? Should colleges and universities be required to offer courses in Common Sense 101? Star Simpson walks into an airport wearing an electronic device on her sweatshirt in the name of art and then doesn’t understand why cops arrest her.

(AP) Massachusetts Institute of Technology sophomore Star Simpson, 19, from Hawaii is arraigned in court…

BOSTON (AP) – The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.

Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a hoax device. Her attorney described the charge as off base and “almost paranoid,” arguing at a court hearing that she did not act in a suspicious manner and had told an airport worker that the device was art.

Okay, Mr. Attorney, had she walked into the airport with a “fake” gun, would you call the cops almost paranoid if they detained her?  After all, fakes aren’t necessarily apparent until investigated.  Are you saying that all murderers, bombers and kidnappers must act suspicious to be criminals?  Wouldn’t acting suspiciously be the last thing a bomber would want to do?

Authorities said they were amazed that someone would wear such a device eight months after a similar scare in Boston, and six years after two of the jets hijacked in the Sept. 11 attacks took off from Logan.

“I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport,” said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the airport’s commanding officer.

Simpson showed “a total disregard to understand the context of the situation she is in, which is an airport of post-9/11,” prosecutor Wayne Margolis said at a hearing where a not guilty plea was entered for Simpson and she was released on $750 bail. Margolis had asked for $5,000 bail.

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

Yup, performance art! Meant to insult, offend and upset as many people as she could just to draw attention to herself!

(AP) The front of a sweatshirt bearing a computer circuit board and wiring worn by Massachusetts…
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Associated Press writers Mark Jewell and Glen Johnson contributed to this report.

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