A 19 year old female M.I.T. student was arrested at gunpoint after entering Boston's Logan International Airport with what authorities claim was "a fake bomb" strapped to her chest, according to wire reports. The device is said to have been some kind of computer circuit board with Play-Doh and wires attached, strapped over her black hoodie. Link to AP report on her arrest.
The young woman is identified as Star Simpson, shown in the image above left, and she is a sophomore from Hawaii. Here is her MIT website, here's her homepage, here's one of her recent projects. She has a user account on Instructables.
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This poor girl was nearly shot with sub-machine guns for having a battery (d cell) a circuit board, some play doh and some wire, all no bigger than a piec of toast, inside her black hoodie that said "Socket To Me Course VI" in electro- luminecent paint. They tried to SHOOT her with SUB MACHINE GUNS over a T-SHIRT that lit up.
The TV news is making me sick. Comments like "She's lucky to be in jail and not in the mourge."
I want to stab someone.
~K
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