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MIT Is In The News Again...This Time, For Fake Bomb At Logan Airport!

wbztv.com — A woman who walked into Logan International Airport allegedly wearing a fake bomb strapped to her chest was arrested at gunpoint Friday, officials said.

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  • derekbalsam, on 10/10/2007, -23/+59This wasn't a fake bomb. I think it was simply a robotics project.
    I strongly suspect that the "fake" bomb worn by the MIT student was actually her school project: a "wearable posture sensing device".
    From her resume:
    http://stars.mit.edu/resume.pdf
    MIT Media Lab, Personal Robots Group - Present
    Designing a posture sensing device to encourage healthier back positions, and to explore
    responses to tactile feedback.

    She wore it openly and obeyed the police because she knew it wasn't a bomb, and probably never even considered it could be mistaken for one.
    • derekbalsam, on 10/10/2007, -6/+30Hmm. Digg me down. She is later quoted as saying it was a "piece of art". If that quote is true, then that's just whack
      • pyrotix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Why doesn't anybody understand
        THE ONLY THING THAT WAS SHOWING WAS A BLINKY LED STAR
        The photos you keep seeing were the INSIDE of her shirt
        Welcome to Boston, city of infernal devices
        • Dewhead, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2She's probably bummed that she wasn't "tasered" . She seems an attention seeker.
    • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -7/+35It wasn't even a robotics project. It's a prototype board with a bunch of BLINKING LEDs on it.

      Thank you for protecting us from this dire threat, genius cops.
      • LocalDocal, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8If you watched the video, then it would seem as if the cops weren't the only people who thought it may be a bomb. Apparently, an attendant who was talking to her right in front of her thought it might be an explosive device too.

        You know, this may end up being Boston/LED II and all of Digg is going to be rooting for the girl, but honestly, I'm going to go ahead and voice my support for the airport (especially in the case of what I perceived to be excellent efficiency in airport security). More than that, I believe this girl knew exactly what may happen. After 9/11, the country has been on the edge about airport security, and this has been doubly enforced by the incident in Boston (the city in the state in which she goes to college), which was plastered all over the news.

        For her to truly believe that there wasn't a chance of this causing a commotion seems highly unlikely to me.
        • Luminoth, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Even with all your reasoning, it still doesn't make the reaction appropriate.
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11"After 9/11" - i stopped reading right there. 9/11 is no excuse for irrational behavior.
          • DanThePainter, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Irrational behavior would have been not to challenge her with force.
          • LocalDocal, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1If you stopped reading, then you're an idiot. Sorry I had to be harsh, but it's true.

            I'm not making excuses for the security's actions, what I'm saying is a fact. People are on edge about airport security. I'm not saying 9/11 is the sole reason this happened (I'm willing to bet it would happen too pre-9/11). all I'm saying is that 9/11 caused people to be more cautious about things. You may not like it, you may think it's moronic, but it is nonetheless reality.
      • datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It would really suck if the cops didn't stop someone with a godammed circuit board around their neck and blew up your plane. Dude get a brain.
    • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -6/+20"This wasn't a fake bomb."

      In Boston, if it's not a real bomb, it's a fake bomb.
    • deadowl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19The City of Boston vs. Electrical Engineering Part II

      Okay, now I'm going to have to take that hour drive to go protest.
    • deadowl, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2The City of Boston vs. Electrical Engineering Part II

      Okay, now I'm going to have to take that hour drive to go protest.
    • Roger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Look at the pictures, its just one of those wearable animated LED array things (albeit crudely constructed).
      • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1Right. And she said it was art. Art my ass.
        • Roger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Well its not exactly practical, so "art" isn't too much of a stretch.
          • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Non-practicality is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for being art.
    • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19If it was a bomb, a person wouldn't be wearing a bunch of flashing LED's which attract attention.
      • MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Unless she was making demands and was trying to attract attention? Not everyone with a bomb strapped is TRYING to commit suicide.
        • Brand83, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If they weren't they'd leave it in the car, not have it 3 inches from their heart.
      • skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Unless the person was crazy.

        /ducks
    • liquidice, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5I'm no fan of hasty police reactions, but comeon, this girl was asking for it. She's a freaking student at MIT, she's smart, she knew what was going to happen. She was HOLDING PLAYDOH! How is holding playdoh part of her "artwork"

      I think the police reacted appropriately, they didn't shoot her, they didn't abuse her. They took the appropriate action for someone suspected of wearing a potentially dangerous device.
    • MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6I'm completely with Logan Airport on this. A majority of people don't know what LEDs or a circuit board is. Its electronics strapped on her in an airport. Think about it?
      She's an idiot for wearing it.
      • datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The fact that you got dugg down really shows the intelligence and maturity of the majority of digg users. I weep for the future.
  • datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -23/+51Apparently you don't need to be smart to get into MIT.

    "She claims that is 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.And no, it wasn't a posture device..

    http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14171964/deta ...
    • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -8/+6Way to display your ignorance, thanks!
      Look at the photo. It looked like she was wearing an electronics experiment. Since when does breadboard=bomb?
      The average chump watching the six o'clock news might think that anything with wires on it is a bomb, but don't you think the context would be a little different at Massachusetts Institute of TECHNOLOGY?
      Much technology does, indeed, include wires...
      • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5Way to display your ignorance, thanks!
        Why would she go to Logan ***** Airport for this "experiment"?
      • geekee, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7a breadboard would be an easy way to construct a home-made electronic detonator for plastic explosives.
        • barbobot, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5And a cell phone would make a good casing for a small nail bomb, what's your point?
    • busket, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Nope, i think you don't have to be smart to work as law enforcement in massachusetts. ***** moononites.
    • skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3She is a idiot alright. That person could just as well be a real bomber and people would die because they thought "Hmmm, a real bomber would hide the bomb." If I was airport security I wouldn't hesitate to pop one in her cervical vertebrae. Talk about a darwin award nominee. I hope she learned her lesson.
    • JEdwardFuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A ***** breadboard with some leds = fake bomb? *****.
  • TheEditor1, on 10/10/2007, -48/+14I hope this stupid ***** bitch gets jailed for life and is required to reimburse all the cost for her little 'art' stunt. She is a direct example of the stupidity that is ingrained in college students in this country. May she rot in jail for being such a dumb bitch.
    • cheeseysynapse, on 10/10/2007, -27/+5amen
    • nblsavage, on 10/10/2007, -10/+14Die in a fire, preferably without breeding.
    • TheRealToma, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16And youre a shining example of the fear driven morons that would report such a thing. May YOU rot at home behind your 6" steel door holding your shotgun, waiting for the terrorists to come. Jerk.
      • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -8/+6Okay... so you are suggesting anyone wearing a suspicious device should be allowed to waltz right onto a plane just in case it is only an art project? Stopping this girl wasn't fear driven it was COMMON SENSE driven. If she had walked onto the plane and it HAD been a bomb you'd be here bitching about how security let her walk right through. Which is more inconvenient one stupid girl gets arrested for being stupid or 200+ people die a horrible death because the security team didn't want to risk being wrong?
        • Luminoth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Do you really think arresting her at gunpoint is the proper way to handle this? There's a thick, dark line between stopping someone to find out what the circuit board on their shirt is and treating them like an armed criminal before they've done anything.
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4When you think there might be a bomb involved and peoples lives are at stake you don't just waltz up to them and say hey that's an interesting device you have there.
          • Luminoth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You know what the problem with your ass backwards logic is, noahhoward? There was no reason to think it was a bomb. None, whatsoever. A real terrorist could have laughed his way passed the entire scene with a real bomb, no wires, no LEDs, no breadboard, stuffed away in a McDonald's cup that no one would have payed any attention to. This constant, ignorant knee jerking is just making it harder for innocent people to go about life while doing absolutely *nothing* to solve the problem.

            Sorry about not replying directly to you, but the comment system is giving me a session expired error when I try for some reason.
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Luminoth do you know what plastique is or what it looks like? And specifically what it takes to detonate it? Walking around with putty, wire and a battery is not going to look good to anyone who knows what to look for. What may seem obvious to you could be a serious problem and the security at an airport exists to check for those problems
          • Luminoth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do you know what the contents of a modern cell phone can be made to do under the right circumstances? How do you justify arresting someone at gunpoint over a breadboard and some wires, but not a cellphone given that? The security at an airport does not exist to point guns at innocent people. If they wanted to check for a problem as you say, they should have asked her to step aside to talk about what she was wearing.
        • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4What's wrong with an "Excuse me ma'am, what is that on your shirt?"
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6"Stopping this girl wasn't fear driven it was COMMON SENSE driven." using drawn weapons, arresting this girl for a "hoax device", and proclaiming that she's lucky she didn't get taken down with deadly force is entirely a fear driven response.
    • Divals, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12I, for one, welcome our new paranoid police-state overlords. Wait, no I don't, you're an idiot.
    • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4i believe the stupidity falls on the lap of the people who throw around catch phrases like "post-9/11 airport" and support the notion that people need to change their behavior "post 9/11". it's really sad to see how fast people will crumble when faced with any kind of opposition.
    • crushfan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You made me one step closer to give up on humankind.
  • DanThePainter, on 10/10/2007, -8/+39Smart? Perhaps, but with only a microscopic bit of common sense.
    • cdawzrd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14I think you just described half of all MIT students. Or at least the ones living in EC...
  • realityhacker, on 10/10/2007, -17/+53If she was trying to make a point, she was right. OBVIOUSLY a real bomber wouldn't walk around with a half-assembled bomb in her hands. It makes me sick anytime that anyone tries to justify things by we being in a "post 9-11 world". ***** grow up.
    • jobenly, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16"OBVIOUSLY a real bomber wouldn't walk around with a half-assembled bomb in her hands."
      Unless the bomber was insane. I don't have a problem here. If she can convince a jury that she had a good reason, she'll go free.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Or that she didn't have an intent to cause others anxiety, unrest, fear or personal discomfort.

        Since... you know... that's what the law is.
    • jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6if everyone thinks that a bomb wouldn't be out in the open, a smart extremist will keep it out in the open.
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12You think so? You can prove that can you?

      Stop and think for a second, which has worse consequences if you happen to be wrong. If you think is is a bomb and it turns out to be a nut with a lite-brite no harm, no foul, if you think it is a nut with a litebrite and it turns out to be a bomb you just got a bunch of people killed.
      • airwalkery2k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Let's see here--they could have stopped her, and had her demonstrate it was not a weapon. They could have stopped treating her like a criminal when they realized it was just an electrical engineering project. Or after arresting her, and observing the object, they could have dropped the charges after realizing the mistake they made.

        Instead they are pressing charges and making her into a criminal because if it has wires in Boston, it's a bomb.
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3"Let's see here--they could have stopped her, and had her demonstrate it was not a weapon."
          And she could have demonstrated that it was. You approach situations like these with a weapon drawn because if the subject reacts by quickly moving for what could be a detonator it saves time when you have to shoot. I've trained on this crap.


      • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8nobody's saying you shouldn't check to make sure people don't have bombs. you shouldn't react like they reacted though, and there certainly should be no such charge as a "hoax bomb device".
      • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Do you guys ever go to an airport? Even before 9/11 it was illegal to say the word bomb. You could get arrested for that. It doesn't matter if you were joking. So a device that could be construed as a detonator for a bomb should deserve a bigger punishment. And she had a chance to talk to the person that questioned her instead of blowing him off. So for idiots scoring at home: "DO NOT WEAR EXPOSED WIRES TO AN AIRPORT"
    • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Except that suicide bombers DO do just that you ***** idiot.
    • skd283, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1So, if I were a hijacker, it sounds like all I would need to do is dress up like some idiot college student and I would have a whole army of cop hating bonehead diggers there to defend me from any kind of law enforcement intervention. I would even bet that if Mohamed Atta or any of his cohorts had failed and been arrested, all of you people would be up in arms about some insignificant asinine aspect about the way in which they had been apprehended.
  • kamel, on 10/10/2007, -10/+7Hmmm, the Simpson name isn't doing so well.
  • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -10/+38The "fake bomb" in question:

    http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/cfa ...
    http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/break ...

    In other words, one of these:

    http://www.west.net/~science/protoboard_w_sequence ...

    "Thankfully because she followed our instructions, she ended up in our cell instead of a morgue,"

    That's great, guys. Way to keep us safe from the threat of electronics projects.

    "The major praised the booth attendant but said the incident is a reminder of the terrorism threat confronting the civil aviation system."

    • cheeseysynapse, on 10/10/2007, -14/+7WTFever.............wear it to the ***** mall, or starbucks. But where did she wear her "art"? to the ***** airport. This was a stunt, she did it to get a rise out of security and the press. Got an A+ in that dept. And because of this stupid bitch, security at all the airports will be just that more anal retentive. I hope the bitch goes to jail.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15She was picking up a friend on her way to an MIT career fair. Stuff like this is totally the norm around there. So she should get machine guns pulled on her?

        People are ***** ignorant and paranoid. Get a grip.
      • BGog, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You are a fool. A breadboard with blinky lights would not be mistaken for a bomb by anyone with a sixth grade education. What else should we ban cause some ignorant moron might mistake it for something dangerous. How about cheese wedges. What right do you have to have something wedge shaped in a post 9/11 airport.

        Good lord. People like you ARE the problem. They need to send their security people to highschool.
      • gimpbully, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3So you're willing to be apathetic and condemn this girl for something that, even in the worst, was civil disobedience? Something that you seem to admit you have no problem with in other venues. You're the problem.
    • theinept, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4The fact that it's a breadboard doesn't make it any less of a legitimate medium for the sort of electronics that might control a bomb. In fact, it'd be ideal. Naturally, a cursory investigation of the circuit reveals that it's both exceptionally simple and totally harmless but you can't expect airport security to have any circuit prototyping knowledge or even really know what an LED is.

      The chick is a doofus and her artwork sucks. At least make an interesting circuit... Or make it look neat.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I thought she was kinda cute. Circuit is simplistic, but come on, she's a sophomore.
      • stealth210, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"you can't expect airport security to have any circuit prototyping knowledge or even really know what an LED is"

        Yes! you found the weakness in our terror-fearing society. A dedicated bomber will not use all these "exposed wires and LEDs", but will instead use something "normal" like a 10 pound laptop (that a lot of people bring into airports). ***** idiots are policing this country with only the ability to take down anything that doesn't fit the norm -- no common sense. Add that with the media not knowing what the ***** they are saying, only worrying about making the biggest story out of something. Watch the video, the reporter says she was wearing a "circuit breaker"; I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
      • icaruscoil, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1As art I'd grade it a C but I don't know jack about art.
        As an electronics project I give it a D and only because it actually turns on, at least I assume it turns on.

        Breadboard is for testing your circuits, the next step is to make a real printed circuit. Then I guess you'd pin it to your chest or something if that's what turns you on.
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2That looks close enough for me to not want to take a risk of being wrong.
      • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Every backpack in that airport is just as likely to be a bomb.
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2You are right, however you can't check every backpack can you. They screen backpacks and they do actually scan every backpack. That doesn't mean you shouldn't check suspicious objects.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Close enough to what? A prop in a movie?
    • stealth210, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You know what? That's ***** stupid. If I she wanted to bomb something, she could conceal all the appropriate electronics cased in a consumer grade cell phone. She obviously wasn't going to any lengths to hide it by going to the information desk. What bomber do you know of that would go to an information desk and alert people to potential threat? People have gotten ***** stupid (or at least the media has amplified them) and have lost common sense.
      • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Are you ***** kidding me? What kind of bomber? The kind with ***** demands you moron!
      • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It could have been a suicide bomber with a crisis of conscience before they triggered it. I unfortunately don't know what goes through suicide bombers minds before they do it. I DO know that anyone walking around with exposed wiring at an airport needs to have their head examined,
    • bingobongony, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2why bring your "electronics project" to the airport that two of the hijacked planes took off from on 9/11? No matter how you look at this, this bitch was a ***** idiot.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Because she had been wearing it for days and didn't think of it? Because it's completely normal to see stuff like that around the MIT campus? Because she never considered that it might look like a bomb?
    • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1That's a stupid decision and anyone with common sense knows it. I swear, Digg is full of the most idiotic people around. She's lucky she wasn't shot and killed, and she deserved to have it confiscated.
      • adnams, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1i totally agree with all of you who are saying she is stupid. I do believe that the terrorist threat is hyped out of all proportion and people need to stop jumping at shadows...but this, she was asking for trouble, if i walked into an airport with a suspicious device and refused to explain what it was, i would expect to be taken down. If she had any sense she could have taken this off before entering somewhere where people are likely to be nervy about situations like this. As it was there was no harm done, it could have ended like the situation in the UK, where that poor Brazilian was shot with no warning whatsoever. The terrorist threat is overblown, but please people, use a little common sense!
        • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"and refused to explain what it was"

          An offhand remark with no context. Probably just blustering by the security officials to cover for their overreaction.

          "As it was there was no harm done, it could have ended like the situation in the UK, where that poor Brazilian was shot with no warning whatsoever."

          He shouldn't have looked suspicious then! He should have expected to be taken down.
  • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -4/+31Another picture of the supposed "fake bomb":

    http://blogs.usatoday.com/.shared/image.html?/phot ...

    Looks reaaaal dangerous, guys...
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -8/+5Are you not familiar with the phrase 'better safe than sorry' that is a close up still photo, what do you think that looks like from 10 yards while someone is walking with it? Are you going to be willing to bet your life and countless others that it is as innocent as it looks?
      • statrick, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3haha you're life must be fun
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2My life? It's great actually but I'm not a law enforcement officer who doesn't have the task of sorting ***** like this out.
      • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5If we are this terrified than the terrorists have already won.
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1What part of my comment makes me sound terrified? I
      • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5wow, noah, you're an idiot. problem solving isn't your strong point, is it? do we a.) investigate further and calmly take the person aside for questioning or b.) draw the big guns and make a huge scene arresting a person for something that turned out to be harmless. well, if it was a suicide bomber, do you think the threat of guns would matter? if they had the intent of blowing themselves up anyways, why wouldn't they just blow their self up when the ruckus began taking out everyone around them?
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2you're the ***** idiot.
          You approach an armed suspect (they don't have the luxury of assuming it's a lightboard, lives could be at stake) with weapon drawn. You know why genius? Because if they reach for a trigger you don't have the luxury of time to draw. If it was a suicide bomber you are right they would have tried to set it off anyway, however if you already have your gun drawn and pointed at them you may be able to shoot them before the kill a ***** of people. You do not approach someone you suspect might be wearing a bomb, it is common ***** sense.
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5fear driven sense is not the equivalent of common sense. i suspect a person with a laptop at the airport to have a bomb inside it, what should we do? WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Laptops are common items obviously you couldn't check every one if you wanted to (oh wait, they already do that so a laptop in the terminal is no problem). However when someone walks in with breadboard and putty, that is something out of the ordinary and merits investigation.
        • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well, you *can* take out a suicide bomber with a head shot, if they don't have a dead man's switch. Of course in America it would just be a harmless civilian who looked suspicious.
      • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Someone tried to talk to her and she brushed them off. THEN they got the guys with guns. She also was holding playdoh in her hand like it could have been a trigger. Legimate threat. The cops reacted to it like they would have reacted to a person that they thought had a gun and did their jobs right.
    • tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3I'd be nervous if I saw that *****, and I know a thing or two about computers. Stop acting high and mighty and being a bunch of *****. She shouldn't have been wearing it, and that's that.
    • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Its more or less an empty board.

      Bomb? You Americans are a bit too paranoid I think.
  • bpapa, on 10/10/2007, -17/+6Man, she would have been a shoe-in for the Darwin awards if they pulled the trigger (which they probably should have).
  • chroko, on 10/10/2007, -11/+46It wasn't the smartest thing to do - but the only danger here was the authorities. I propose a new warning sign at airports that should actually help keep people safe:

    "WARNING: BRUTAL RETARDS WITH GUNS. NO BRIGHT OBJECTS, SUDDEN MOVEMENTS, NONCONFORMIST ATTIRE OR CREATIVE THINKING IS PERMITTED."

    For the 9/11 shills, bear in mind that this girl was 13 years old when that happened. The "war against terror" has already destroyed the world for our children in far more effective ways than the terrorists could.
    • cityhuman, on 10/10/2007, -9/+6Are you trying to say she should have been left alone? So anyone wearing electronic devices on their chest should be allowed to freely walk into airports because they are expressing themselves. I'm completely against police brutality but I dont think they had any other choice. How the hell do you get into MIT and not know what the outcome of that situation was going to be.
      • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Scared pussy.
      • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5there's a slight difference between asking someone to step aside for questioning and rushing in with automatic weapons with the intent to kill. it's slight, i know, but it's there.
        • YourDoom123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4exactly... and even that might be excusable had they just dropped the charges after realizing what it was...
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Yeah the difference is one is suicidal the other uses sense.
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5no, the difference is action driven by reason and action driven by sensationalized fear.
    • geekee, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4Yes, because a reasonable person would never assume that putty and homemade electronics was a bomb. That would just be silly. That's impossible. Oh wait.
    • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1How about a sign that says "NO EXPOSED WIRING". Shirts, boxes, bags, etc... If you have lose wires coming out of something prepared to be searched. And if you wearing that on your chest, prepared to be searched at gun point.
  • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -8/+10Is there anyone here, honestly, who, if we were there, and I would have said to you beforehand "I'll bet you fifty bucks she can wear that thing to the airport and NOT get arrested" ... is there anyone who would not have taken the bet? No ... anybody would know how that was going to end.
    • BGog, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Just because we can predict that the uneducated meat-heads who work airport security will act foolishly doesn't mean it is right.
      • geekee, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4I think an educated person couldn't say it wasn't a bomb without investigating. The putty in her hand was the tipping point.
        • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Nobody is going to show you the god damned bomb!
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4of course, but it comes down to the means of investigation. what if she twitched her arm and some asshat opened fire? if it was a suicide bomber, what difference would being surrounded by armed people really matter if he had planned on dying anyways?
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2"if it was a suicide bomber, what difference would being surrounded by armed people really matter if he had planned on dying anyways?"
          Him dying alone vs. him taking hundreds with him perhaps?
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4noah, do you seriously think that a suicide bomber would hesitate to blow everyone up the second he saw people rushing at him with guns? do you know how fast it takes for an electrical signal to detonate a bomb?
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1It isn't the electrical signal you are trying to stop, it is the person that may not already be holding the detonator. Of course that will only be a few situations but if you aren't prepared for it you will miss the opportunity.
      • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Yet an MIT educated meat-head couldn't predict it?
  • nblsavage, on 10/10/2007, -5/+40Ah Boston strikes again. Good thing she didn't have a Lite-Brite.
  • SwissCamel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18MIT really needs to start focusing on making a penis pump which actually works.
  • ironhide, on 10/10/2007, -6/+29Of course the cops overreacted. All those sparking lights must have confused the poor brutes.
    • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2No, they didn't. She's extremely lucky she wasn't shot. Just because they do and their is a bunch of hate going around and crap about excessive force, doesn't automatically mean these cops overreacted. Get off the bandwagon and use your damn head.
      • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Would you like to make a list of other things that idiots with guns might mistake for a bomb or a weapon? I would like to be lucky not to get shot, too.

        I guess anyone carrying or wearing anything other than clothing and accessories pre-approved for police comprehension ought to consider themselves lucky every day they aren't shot.
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Those cops finally did exactly what they were trained to do without any over-reaction at all. Good for them.
    • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4again, to the people who think the cops really did something here... would a p90 rush really matter to a guy that planned on nade-ing himself anyways?
      • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Yes, it matters, for ***** sake are you really that stupid? Do you just let him blow himself up or do you attempt to stop him? He doesn't care about himself dying the whole ***** reason he is there is to take people with him.
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4i'm sure with all your personal experience you're well aware of the reaction time and trigger time that a detonation device requires. it's quicker than the time it takes to realize that a person is detonating a device and to shoot them. you see, i have this thing called intelligence that you seem to be lacking.
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1In some cases yes you won't have a chance, in others you do. The point is if you already have your gun drawn your chances are vastly improved. You may have intelligence (doubtful) but you seem to lack common sense.
  • CookieDuster666, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3Not bright.
  • Tabou, on 10/10/2007, -13/+4Now the question is "how did she get into MIT?"
  • RedStateRetard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26I'd better not wear this shirt at the airport.
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/8a5b/
    • 6scarface6, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4But... how do you wash it?
      • stealth210, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I was wondering that myself. Do you remove the electronics?
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1You probably wouldn't actually. There is a difference between that shirt and cobbled together electrical components + putty.
  • dunderballer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Great hack!

    /sarcasm
  • BGog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24I ALWAYS put blinky lights on my bombs.
    • cityhuman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You forgot the loud ticking clock!
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Real critical thinker you are. Not many people deliberately flew jetliners into tall buildings... seems to have something to do with why we weren't expecting it.
      • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3...? and your critical thinking comes where? there is no real relationship between blinking lights on bombs and flying jetliners. poor attempt at rationalizing your flawed point of view.
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Oh my ***** god you really are that stupid. You want to know what the relationship is genius? They are both things no one expects. In the original posters view, it seems, that means no one would ever do it. Just because no one has done something before doesn't mean it will never happen.
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4as i said, that's not a real relationship. if you see a person walk up to you with LEDs on their tshirt do you expect a bomb? if you're flying a plane and someone comes up to you with a weapon and hijacks the plane do you expect roses and flowers?
        • kh99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0noahhoward, you are a moron. Using your logic anything could be a fake bomb. No one's expecting a bomb hidden in a banana, let's arrest everyone with those. Those people carrying bananas are idiots who should have realized that it's not expected, and therefore a likely bomb.

          Moron.
  • swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Buried for using the term "fake bomb" to describe a circuit board with flashing LEDs on it.
  • Obligation, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18It's a breadboard ffs. God, how can so many people think that anything with LEDs and a battery is a bomb?
    • mookiemookie, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6Because it's not something usually found on clothes. Wires are associated with bombs. Which headline would you rather see? "Cops arrest student for suspicious device" or "100 killed in suicide bomb. Cop says he didn't THINK it looked like a bomb"
      • swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10"Wires are associated with bombs"

        We truly have become a Kingdom of Fear, and you sir are a perfect example.
        • swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5To paraphrase the late Hunter S. Thompson
        • mookiemookie, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3How many items of clothing do you have with wires coming out of them? How many do suicide bombers?
        • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Pre-September 11th. I was told never to open packages with lose wires coming out of it. So Post Semptember 11th. I definately would worry about lose wires on a shirt.
    • Roger, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Its not a breadboard, its a "white computer circuit board".
      • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Or, as any electronics hobbyist will tell you, a breadboard.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's a breadboard. Has nothing to do with computers. Don't believe everything the incompetent journalists spoonfeed you.
    • cityhuman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I highly doubt most cops and security guards even know what a breadboard is much less how a circuit works. Plus putting LEDs on a device for killing others is taught in Bomb Making 101 everyone knows that.
    • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5ohhhh a breadborad, of course. Any idiot would obviously know that...
  • tim507, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I wish I was as smart as she is.
  • AzleGamer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23And the terrorists win...
  • nusuni, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4MIT will forever be remembered as the place that makes both toy laptops and fake bombs.
  • e3boy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11she's kind of cute.
    • shogun042, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2i hope you're not serious
      • e3boy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4what can i say, got a thing for geeky girls.
        • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Me too. Too bad she was picking up her boyfriend... :'(
  • soot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13B-B-B-BUT IT HAS SCARY WIRES STICKING OUT OF IT
    • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Umm yah that sounds about right if you had been there. Use your head. Not everyone is a gd electronics/bomb expert.
      • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No, but I would hope the police who are trained in airport security would be.
        • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I would too but I bet that's not the case in reality.
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2What good does it do them to be trained, people bitch anytime they follow their training anyway.
          They are trained to not take undue risk. If you suspect a bomb you react to a bomb.
    • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1You can say "B-B-B-BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS FAKE" to the families of the dead after being wrong about the detonator being a toy.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3When it really happens, the detonator will BE a toy. Real bombs don't look like bombs.
  • MrESaulved, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Slowly, surely, one willful person at a time blessed with the combination of foolhardiness and bravery will save us all from self destruction by pointing out the utter folly of our held positions. This girl is just one of the early adopters of the hopefully new found common sensibility that has been missing in our day to day lives for some years now.

    What are you afraid of, and why?
    • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1"new found common sensibility"

      Yeah. She looks the part too.
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Then at the party someone will set off a bomb. No one suspected it, it just looked like a case of beer.
      • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5a bomb disguised as a case of beer with wires sticking out of it and covered with LEDs, or a bomb disguised like a plain case of beer? think about that one for a bit.
        • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2You think about it I'll watch the explosion from a distance. Police are trained to disarm a situation not stand around second guessing it.
        • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4of course police are trained to disarm a situation, and when the police are holding an innocent girl at gunpoint, the person with the bomb that looks LIKE A CASE OF BEER will be causing the explosion. oh, thanks for digging me down just because i disagree with you. it shows character.
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I dugg you down because you don't seem to know what you are talking about. I disagree with you because I've seen the training for this stuff. If police had ESP yes they would have know this girl was jst ***** stupid and they'd know where every real bomb in the nation is, since they aren't they have to act on a case by case basis. There is no room for second guesses when lives are on the line.
        • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So police aren't supposed to respond to obvious situations. Just respond to something out of a movie?
  • Fizban140, on 10/10/2007, -7/+11What an idiot, from a distance it could look like a bomb. With a little common sense she could have avoided the whole incident. If you think she shouldn't have been stopped or even questioned as to what she was wearing than you are an idiot.
    • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Agreed, wtf did she think would happen. Everyone here bashing the cops for this would have done the same thing if you were in their position.
      • adnams, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1im pretty sure none of you lot saying the police overreacted would have got on a plane with this girl without getting someone to check for you!!!!
    • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Except why would a hidden bomb have a ton of flashing LED's that attract attention?
      • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3You could ask "why" this or that about a million things that have happened. I could ask why wouldn't someone crazy enough to try and bomb an airport walk into it with flashing lights. Why are their suicide bombers? Why would someone murder someone and eat their brains? It all happens. There's some crazy people out there.
        • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Why are you so scared?
          • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Why are you so ***** stupid? I'm scared because there are people with your level of intelligence that still manage to breath and sometimes get elected to public office.
    • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Stopping and questioning is fine.

      But holding her at gunpoint, pressing charges, and holding a press conference bragging about how you protected the populace from some blinking lights, and using it to catapult the constant threat of terror is ridiculous.
  • geekee, on 10/10/2007, -12/+10The police did the right thing this time. This is not the same thing as the ATHF boards. The woman had electronics strapped to her chest and was carrying putty in her hands. It's doubtful any electrical engineer could tell at a glance that this wasn't plastic explosives and a detonator.
    • swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -8/+8Yeah, aside from the ***** FLASHING LED LIGHTS on it. No, not the same as the ATHF boards at all.
      • geekee, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6ok, if I ever make a bomb I'll put flashing LED's on it to confuse you. A 555 timer and a counter will make a nice pretty display to distract you. The ATHF boards didn't have anything that looked like an explosive material on it. Logic really eludes some people.
    • swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Oh yeah, and the phrase "SOCKET TO ME" in large text on the shirt. I doubt an electrical engineer would comprehend what was going on with that.
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Every year myself and some other people from our airline volunteer at a Young Eagles event as aircraft marshalers (we direct the planes around the ramp as the kids leave and return from their rides and there are a ton of aircraft). Anyway, we have to wear these bright orange t-shirts that say 'AIR MARSHAL' on the back in large bold letters. I think if I wore that shirt at Logan, I'd probably get arrested for impersonating a Federal Air Marshal by some ***** who doesn't know what the alternate definition means.
    • skd283, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Solution: Listen to the common sense that made you think that and don't wear it.
  • pferdestarke, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21If i hear the term "post 9/11 world" again I swear I'll go postal in the inf. corridor
    • Mothrog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Post 9/11 world.
    • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, shouldn't it be the Post Bush Inauguration World?
  • gquaglia, on 10/10/2007, -16/+15Moronic Digg users coming out in force on this one. Anyone who justifies what this clueless ***** did is just a stupid. How do you think the cop would feel if he had to pull the trigger on this bitch only to learn that it was a stupid college stunt portrayed by some immature idiot. She is just another shinning example of the jerkoffs being cranked out by today's colleges.
    • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Your mastery of obscenities has convinced me. I used to be "a stupid," but you have made me into a smart.
    • ryanisnotsuper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The cops should feel bad now because they are retarded.
    • saintdesy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It wasn't a stunt, you *****. She is one of those smart people with no sense of how stupid people react to stuff. I'm sure that to some EE nerd, that circut board represents some kind of artistic statement, much like a normal person would wear a t-shirt with some sort of phrase on it or something.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not really "artistic". But "decoration" or "badge of nerd pride", sure. I'm sure it's completely normal around the MIT campus. People need to get a grip.
    • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It wasn't a stunt, *****.
  • ronin2040, on 10/10/2007, -15/+10Did all you geniuses miss the part where the cops asked her to explain what the device was, and she DID NOT RESPOND?

    At that point, the situation escalated--as it should. Anyone walking around with loose wires sticking out is slightly suspicious. That same person who asks about flight times, is a little more suspicious. When that person does not reply to inquiries as to what the device is, then it becomes a possible threat. Action needs to be taken, because it could very well have been a bomb.

    ***** any points you guys have about "everyones so paranoid these days, oh noes", fact remains that she could easily have had a bomb. Any comments about "a terrorist would have hidden it" are ***** retarded, because you never know WHAT a terrorist will do--they try to outwit the system, do the unexpected.

    Feel free to ignore my post and continue your inane comments about how orwellian our society is.
    • swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Reading comprehension FTW. An airport employee asked her what the device is, and she said it was "artwork." At no point did she fail to comply with police.

      • LocalDocal, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Er, you may need a bit of reading comprehension yourself, sir.

        Ronin is referring to the part in the article in which she was approached by a Massachusetts Port Authority staffer and asked what was she wearing. At first, she did not respond. When he asked a second time, she merely said artwork, then left abruptly.
        • Lyianis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Parent stated that she failed to respond to the "cops"
          • LocalDocal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My mistake. I searched out the part where she said artwork and I read the employee instead.
    • Lyianis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7She responded immediately when the cops asked, it was only when the employee asked that she did not immediately repsond
      From the article
      "She did not respond when the employee asked her about the device she was wearing, so the employee repeated the question, police said.
      Simpson then said the device was artwork and left the counter and walked around the terminal area, causing some employees to leave the building in fear, police said."

      The employee asked her once, then again and she responded. Most people will not respond to an out of the blue question at first, especially in a situation where they are waiting on a SO. If you, a stranger, ask me whats in my briefcase and I don't immediately respond, does that mean its a bomb?
  • 6scarface6, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8... If you believe the "Osama was the mastermind behind 9/11" theory, then he's accomplished his goals. People ***** themselves any time they see anything electric at airports thats not "supposed" to be there.
    • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Not electric, exposed wiring. Exposed wiring implies home made and home made can be anything.
  • zachshmack, on 10/10/2007, -8/+5Attention whore. C'mon, you're already a girl at MIT. How much attention do you need?
    • LordVoldemort, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Girks at MIT probably need all the attention they can get.
  • brett.evans, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Pretty crazy, I went to high school with her. WTF!
    • franklymister, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4You're like, a celebrity! Can I tell people I responded to one of your comments? Ohmigod so cool!
    • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're almost an internet person now, your right up there with the mother of the zombie kid who said "I like turtles"...

      Look out for the papparazzi now.
  • vtnerd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7She did something clearly stupid.

    However, stupidity in and of itself is not illegal. The police acted appropriately and now that we all know it wasn't a bomb that should be the end of things. Drop the charges and continue being vigilant.
  • Yoda916, on 10/10/2007, -8/+11Uhhh, I can't understand why anyone on Digg is even supporting the cops/troops on this one. For any news organization, police officer, or security personnel to call the tiny little breadboard she was wearing a bomb is beyond me. How do we know she didn't answer questions? Is this the same people telling me she was wearing a bomb? Please! Give me a break!

    The best part out of all of this is that she was there to meet her boyfriend. She wore the thing for the career fair which MIT already confirmed existed. The airport authorities made a mistake. Let her go. It's not about saving face. However, she will be prosecuted. MIT won't step up to the plate and ask the tough questions needed in this over-reaction. So who will be the first to write a letter to the editor of any/all Boston newspapers? What about the D.A. prosecuting it?

    Maybe Colbert was right. We are a bunch of mouse clicking pussies.

    • tommy7154, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6It's not too hard to understand that not everyone knows what a breadboard is. Even a news organization, the police, or security personnell. They are apparently "ignorant" on the subject of breadboards. Your inability to comprehend that not everyone knows what a breadboard is is "stupidity".
    • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2*click click*

      Dugg.
  • Qtip42, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Nice to see the airports totally unsafe due to the mp5 toting pigs. Remind me not to bring my led shirt to the airport. ***** idiots!

    She does look pretty odd though and so is playing with playdough at an airport.
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Yeah I know, no one ever bombs planes what the ***** are they worried about. Oh.. hang on a sec.
    • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2[sarcasm] Yes, those damn pigs. Trying to asses a million different situations knowing that they only have to be wrong once and people die. ***** them!!! [/sarcasm]
  • Snowbo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9My to-do list:
    * Take off IED sweatshirt before going to airport so that I don't get shot
    * Change my major and leave MIT because my "art" used scotch tape instead of electrical tape
    * Visit hairdresser
    • acceleriter, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7IED? I assume you meant LED? Or was that a Freudian slip, there, Akmed?
  • transitive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5they should really start testing the sanity of cops. if she walked into the airport with a bomb in her backpack and dropped in a garbage can and walked away she could have killed dozens of people. but she walked into an airport with a circuit board on her sweatshirt....why are they wasting their time on the obviously non-bombs when they could be digging through garbage cans instead?
    • noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4If I presenter a fairly ordinary device to you, lets say a cell phone and told you you needed to decide whether it was a bomb or a cellphone what would you decide? If you chose cellphone, you are either very brave or don't care about your life which is perfectly fine. Now, if you were a security guard in an airport with thousands of people about and I asked you to decide if a battery, a circuit board and what appears to be plastic explosives was what it appeared to be or something harmless what would you decide? If you said harmless you just gambled with thousands of lives and when someone is trained in security that is unacceptable.
  • RebornInFlames, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Wow, MIT students sure are bright
  • pyrotix, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Why doesn't anybody understand...
    THE ONLY THING THAT WAS SHOWING WAS A BLINKY LED STAR
    The photos you keep seeing were the INSIDE of her shirt. She didn't have a circuit board and battery exposed at all.
    Welcome to Boston, city of infernal devices.
    • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2And putty in her hands. Putty. Electronic Device. Airport.
    • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Where did you get that idea? Look at the pictures.
  • YZBot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Does anyone have any common sense any more?
  • evanpugface, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6yo... if i wanted to walk around with a bomb.. i'd dress like your average joe, and i'd put the bomb in a freakin suitcase or duffel bag or back pack, and smile at the cops.
    • ppineda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2And that is you, but there are a few billion other people on the earth that might do different things. Cops have to try to anticipate all of their actions.
  • nonrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It looked more like a breadboard to me, not a circuit board. Although the police acted on what they believed to be the safety of citizens, it's the aftershock that should be monitored closely. Please fellow Americans, innocent until proven guilty, until PROVEN guilty...
  • acceleriter, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Wow, way to throw your student under the bus, MIT -- from the article, MIT PR flack Greg Frost said "MIT is cooperating fully with the State Police in the investigation of an incident at Logan Airport this morning involving Star Simpson, a sophomore at MIT. As reported to us by authorities, Ms. Simpson's actions were reckless and understandably created alarm at the airport."
    • nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3"way to throw your student under the bus, MIT"

      out of respect for the rest of the students - the ones with live neurons in their skulls
      • acceleriter, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3That girl has more "live neurons" than any of the statist sympathizers posting trash about her on Digg ever will. In any case, it is highly inappropriate for a school PR flack to comment in such a way as to cast her in a negative light while at the same time admitting an investigation is still in progress.
  • Zorkon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Let's see. MIT person wanders around with electronic devices and bare wire in airport. Where have I heard this one before?
    Oh yeah. Steve Mann did it, and not too long after the Sept 11 attacks. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940 ...
    You'd think that tensions would be higher then instead of now... Dr. Mann was searched and had to explain the functioning of his device (which had wires coming out of his glasses into a "control box")... but he wasn't charged with anything and I'm sure he didn't have someone show up carrying a submachine gun either.
    Glad I live here instead of there. What happened to you, America?
  • parasitewasp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Maybe she wouldn't look so suspicious if the wires were attached to a silver pen inserted into the play-doh. Along with blinky lights would look kind of cool.
  • JerodSlay, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2the BPD overreacted to the Aqua Teen lightbrights, however those were not in an airport and on a person. I would have been way freaked out if I saw her in the airport.
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