MIT Coed's "Art" Thought Explosive

[Jon]

Star Simpson, an MIT sophmore, was arrested while in Logan airport. She had a circuit board and battery stuck to her shirt, which she later claimed was "artwork", but initially airport personnel thought it might be a bomb.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

She must have had a big bowl of stupid for breakfast.:roll:

[VaughnMichael]

wow omg i better watch out if i have a flash drive with me any place it could be a bomb.:roll:

[愛]

You're gonna tell me that a circuit board and battery strapped to your CHEST isn't any sort of suspicious? In an airport? With all that has happened? Give me a break.

[VaughnMichael]

no because I've known about people who have shirts, bracelets, and earings like this.

[Jon]

no because I've known about people who have shirts, bracelets, and earings like this.


Huh!? Ones where they basically glue objects to them? As this is the case here; she put an actual circuit board and a battery onto a shirt she had.

[VaughnMichael]

yes people have been doing this since the 80's it's nothing new.
It was even bigger in the 90's.

[Drtooth]

While not smart, this goes to show how we're readily prepared to go out and pretend to fight a war on terror we're losing by making retarded choices. By "we" I mean our privillaged brain dead turdwipe leaders. On Both sides.

But hey, a ton of fevered overprotection is worth a fraction of a milligram of it being prevented in the first place by not hiring minimum wage rent-a-cops.

[jeff the cheff]

An MIT student who is a genius but has no common sense.

[KROW]

Star Simpson, an MIT sophmore, was arrested while in Logan airport. She had a circuit board and battery stuck to her shirt, which she later claimed was "artwork", but initially airport personnel thought it might be a bomb.

Well, at least we know that Darth Vader won't be able to hijack a plane...

[BubblyShell22]

Whoa! That's messed up! Why would anyone want to do that with what's been going on? It may have been harmless, but this student should know that one can't be too careful in the times we live in now.

[Drtooth]

I also think it's funny that these people think Terrorists would do something OBVIOUS. But, hey, that's the times we live in. What's giving up all our civil rights just to pretend to feel an iota safer?

[愛]

You can try to be angry about the government keeping your creativity and individuality down all you want, but going into a public place with something that could POTENTIALLY be a bomb is not smart. People are just trying to keep the country safe. Is there something wrong with that? I'm sure if you had a relative or someone close to you die from the 9/11 incident, you would feel differently. I'm sure of that.

Here's another example that may not be very good, but it's something to turn heads. What if I were to take every Bible in the Barnes and Noble and put them in the fiction section? Yeah, bash quote, I know, but work with me here. Hey, it's what I believe, so why are people telling me not to do that? Tell me. Why? Because maybe it upsets someone? It's simply to keep the peace. Again, something wrong with keeping the peace?

I'm all about being myself and expressing myself in my own way, but doing something like that doesn't seem very smart to me.

[VaughnMichael]

People are just trying to keep the country safe. Is there something wrong with that? I'm sure if you had a relative or someone close to you die from the 9/11 incident, you would feel differently. I'm sure of that.

Um yes there is actully when they are going after things like this when it's not even an issue. I feel very stongly about protection of the people but that's not what they're up to here.
And I had 2 friends die in the bullsh1t that was 911 and I feel exactly the same about the government and it's lies the day before it happend as I do today.
You can call me whatever you like but just keep your eyes open and maybe some of your brain.
It doesn't take to much to see whats going on around us.

[愛]

I didn't call you anything. And I was being nice about my explanation. I guess you didn't deserve that.

And I do have my eyes and mind open. Don't f*cking act like you know me. I just don't whine and complain about it every chance I get. I have my own problems to deal with. And seriously, despite the lies the government feeds all the time, you won't find a better place anywhere else, with the possible exception of Canada. So you can bash the government all you want. You still live here and have to deal with it.

[Mecha Cow]

Come on, Ai is right here. It's really not hard to mistake something like that for a potentially dangerous object. She just should have known better, it has nothing to do with freedom of expression or 9/11 or any political nonsense. You can't just claim you're being opressed because you don't like how the basic rules of society work. That's not what liberty is about at all.

[Cure]

Seriously, trying to justify "wearing" something like that is just foolish. People that see government conspiracies in anything and everything also need to give it a break.

[愛]

Agreed on both fronts. That's what I was going for, but I guess I didn't convey that very well.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

I also think it's funny that these people think Terrorists would do something OBVIOUS. But, hey, that's the times we live in. What's giving up all our civil rights just to pretend to feel an iota safer?

It's not a civil right to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded auditorium. And terrorists can be obvious. Remember the recent doctors' terrorist plot in Britain?

[VaughnMichael]

I didn't call you anything. And I was being nice about my explanation. I guess you didn't deserve that.

And I do have my eyes and mind open. Don't f*cking act like you know me. I just don't whine and complain about it every chance I get. I have my own problems to deal with. And seriously, despite the lies the government feeds all the time, you won't find a better place anywhere else, with the possible exception of Canada. So you can bash the government all you want. You still live here and have to deal with it.
I didn't say you did I said you could ;)
And AI I wasn't talking directly at you I was making a statement.
So please don't get your digital panties in a bunch.
I just thought people where a little more over this entire "terrorist" thing but I guess I'd be wrong.
Has everyone forgotten about how everyone went nuts over the Mooninites Box's not to long ago it's just proof that they're going over crazy about things.
I mean sure it's ok to question some one over a thing like that but to say some one is stupid for wearing something stupid if you ask me.
There's being protective than there's being over protective nothings even come about since the buildings fell.
Yeah but I plan to do something about it not just whine and complain like most people do I love my country just not how it's run I see a change coming in the next few years for many things.
EDit: you know I'd really like to see what this person was wearing my opinion may be a bit differnt then.

[Mecha Cow]

I mean sure it's ok to question some one over a thing like that but to say some one is stupid for wearing something stupid if you ask me.
There's being protective than there's being over protective nothings even come about since the buildings fell.
Yeah but I plan to do something about it not just whine and complain like most people do I love my country just not how it's run I see a change coming in the next few years for many things.
EDit: you know I'd really like to see what this person was wearing my opinion may be a bit differnt then.

I don't think it's stupid at all; like I said in my previous post, it doesn't seem like a stretch to mistake a circuit board and a battery stuck to someone's chest for a potential bomb. It would be like waving a toy gun around. It might be obviously harmless at close inspection, but would you really want security guards to take that chance? To raise the red flag in such situations isn't being overly protective, it's common sense. Better safe than sorry.

[VaughnMichael]

I don't think it's stupid at all; like I said in my previous post, it doesn't seem like a stretch to mistake a circuit board and a battery stuck to someone's chest for a potential bomb. It would be like waving a toy gun around. It might be obviously harmless at close inspection, but would you really want security guards to take that chance? To raise the red flag in such situations isn't being overly protective, it's common sense. Better safe than sorry.
I'm sorry but I'm not going to live in fear of circut boards and toy guns.
That's what they want people to do even the government everyone thinks I'm bashing says the same thing you're own giving in to what the "Terrorists" want.
Sure it's great to be protective but theres a fine line and I believe it's crossed allot that's all I'm saying.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

No, but you'd better be afraid of real guns and bombs. What do you do if you don't know if a threat is real or fake? Sit and smile and hope for the best? I wouldn't want to trust my safety to people who do that. I expect these things to be checked out.

[VaughnMichael]

No, but you'd better be afraid of real guns and bombs. What do you do if you don't know if a threat is real or fake? Sit and smile and hope for the best? I wouldn't want to trust my safety to people who do that. I expect these things to be checked out.
Like I said I'm fine with Safety but when it comes down to peoples freedoms being taken away from them I don't like that one bit because we're headed down a bad road.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Like I said I'm fine with Safety but when it comes down to peoples freedoms being taken away from them I don't like that one bit because we're headed down a bad road.

It can be a thin line between necessary restrictions and genuinely harming freedoms, and this country has debated about it since its founding, one early example being the Sedition Act passed in 1798, the idea being to protect the new nation against anarchy, though there was plenty of controversy about it at the time.

I fail to find it an illegitimate restriction of freedom, however, to disallow people to bring what appear to be bombs or other weapons to an airport, school, etc.

[Mecha Cow]

Like I said I'm fine with Safety but when it comes down to peoples freedoms being taken away from them I don't like that one bit because we're headed down a bad road.
This has nothing to with freedom, or even fear. When someone poses a plausible threat to you, you react. Security officers will respond to the slightest hint of such a threat because it is their job, and it has been their job long before 9/11. They will not takes chances because there could potentially be human lives at stake, is this so hard for you to understand?

You do not have the 'freedom' to fake a threat to human wellbeing. You do not have do not have a 'right' to stir up fear (Which -make no mistake- is the case in the situation we are discussing and in the hypothetical one I mentioned; whether this is intentional or not is absolutely irrelevant as far as this discussion is concerned). It is the people who believe this is acceptable that are the 'terrorists'; not your government or the people that risk their lives to protect your true freedom and your actual rights.

*E* This (http://graphics.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/09/21/1190396807_0814.jpg) is what it looked like.

[jeff the cheff]

Even though I'm someone who is skeptical about the threat of terrorism, and thinks that people are more scared then they should be, this is clearly a stupid move. The person obviously did this to be a smart ass. Being a smart ass can be funny, but its an airport and they have to be extra secure. If she walked around campus with this on, it wouldn't be a big deal. An airport is extra secure, though, and you shouldn't act like an idiot there.

[Drtooth]

I'm sorry but I'm not going to live in fear of circut boards and toy guns.
That's what they want people to do even the government everyone thinks I'm bashing says the same thing you're own giving in to what the "Terrorists" want.

You know what ELSE the terrorists want? Them to check out someone who obviously doesn't want to do anything, and just gets mixed up in crap like this, while they can easily sneak through carrying stuff.

Plus, they just love to see us running around like chickens with our heads cut off when someone finds a signal device from a street light attatched to a street light. That has happened.

Dispite the fact they are too damn stupid to realise they are pawns in a game of world domination, they aren't stupid about how they can attack.

But hey, that's what we get for f*&^&%ing around in that area in the 80's, and giving weopons to these people to stop those big scary Russians.... ooooh....

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

And the Cold War is what we got for helping the Soviet Union defeat those scary Germans...

[Mecha Cow]

This has nothing to do with terrorism. For f*ck's sake, people.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Somebody walking into an airport with a bomb isn't necessarily a terrorist. They could just be a suicidal lunatic with no political motivations, like the man who shot up Virginia Tech.

[Krang]

Thread re-opened. Let's please get back on the original topic rather than veering into political discussion, since that causes nothing but problems. Also note that personal attacks will not be tolerated, and we are taking steps to improve on keeping them from happening in the future.

[KROW]

Even though I'm someone who is skeptical about the threat of terrorism, and thinks that people are more scared then they should be, this is clearly a stupid move. The person obviously did this to be a smart ass. Being a smart ass can be funny, but its an airport and they have to be extra secure. If she walked around campus with this on, it wouldn't be a big deal. An airport is extra secure, though, and you shouldn't act like an idiot there.

I agree with Jeff, here. If she wanted to make an artistic expression this way, then she should have taken precaution. Walking through an airport while wearing a t-shirt with a circuit board and a battery attached is like strolling through Harlem wearing a KKK outfit -- dumb, hazardous, and likely to cause a major repercussion against you.

I don't know what kinds of precautionary measures she could have taken per se, but just waltzing in like that was clearly a bad idea. Perhaps organizing a demonstration with a police escort or something... I don't know. The whole concept is pretty much a failure. In an American airport, wires = bad news. Hell, they won't let you take a knife on board, and even making jokes about hijacking or bombs can get you detained. I don't know what she was trying to accomplish, but I don't think it worked.

[VaughnMichael]

After seeing the image the only reason I could even see them making a big deal about it is because of the stinking battery I think that if the person didn't have that a big deal wouldn't really have been made over it.
I didn't realize it had a Battery on it and after seeing the image it looks as i they did do it just to get a rise out of them.
I still stand by my comments of being overly protective though.