The Lite-Brite Boys might have a recommendation for a lawyer

By adamg on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 12:24pm

So this college student goes up to a counter at Logan with a blinking circuit board strapped to her chest and a blob of unidentifiable material ...

"She claims that it was just art and she was proud of the art and wanted to display it. I am not sure why she had the Play-Doh in her hands. She could not explain that," Pare said.

Channel 4 has more:

Simpson was "extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," Pare said. "She's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."

Except she wasn't wearing a hoax bomb. Joshua Glenn explains how she was basically wearing a light-up sweatshirt. The DA's office, of course, begs to differ.

Bonus: She's an MIT student who, according to her overloaded Web site (thanks, Google Cache) lets us know:

... I love to build things and I love crazy ideas. ... I lived for a long time in Hawaii, while traveling the world and saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets.

Comments

Uh...what rules? Oh..like

By Anonymous
Wed, 10/03/2007 - 8:25pm

Uh...what rules? Oh..like don't carry electronics into the terminal?
Since when is that a rule? You might want to run on over there and
start making citizens arrests of everyone with a cell phone or ipod

I'm sorry but exactly what rules did she violate?

Oh right..the unwritten rules..that only you are able to discern
through your god given common sense. Hey it worked back in the salem
witch trials didn't it..and everyone knows that we didn't come
from monkeys..it's just common sense..

Fact is she did nothing wrong except underestimate how stupid
people seem to think "Battery + Light" = Terrorist.

But then again, your magic feelings that god gives you mean that
you don't have to use reason now..do you? I mean if it vaugely
reminds you of something you saw on TV..i.e. a pile of wires
and the policeman saves the day by using his instincts to know
to cut the red wire before the black one..well if you saw it in
the movies, then it must be right..Oh yeah..but where was the
Red numbers counting down from :05,04,03...feel confused, but
still..wires bad..

If the back is missing from your radio..do you get real scared?

Jeesus...BATTERY + LED..!= BOMB. If it had been in a flash
light case then you morons never would have gotten confused, but
your small little minds didn't recognize it in unfamiliar settings
and still cant seem to grasp that "ooog..blinking lights look
different than magic lantern i use outside in dark, but basically
same thing"

oops I must have confused you..!= means "NOT EQUAL" It's a programming
thing from something called the "C" language. That's WAY above you..but
that's a start of how the magic keyboard with the magic screen you are
looking at right now works, but for now..lets keep it simple shall we..

BATTERY + LED = LIGHT... NOT BOMB"
.

I work, too

By BStu
Sun, 09/23/2007 - 8:12pm

I don't think kids who make light-up name-tags should be happy not to get killed. I don't think people should be arrested because other people are unjustifiably scared of them. I think people who are consumed with living in fear and criminalizing scariness don't deserve the safety they claim to seek.