# Idiot wears fake bomb in Logan Airport **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990 "2007-09-21T14:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/1 "2007-09-21T14:55:06Z")
Story [here](http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14171964/detail.html). She had a circuit board, wiring, and play-doh strapped to her chest “in plain view”. You’d think after the whole Aqua-Teen fiasco in Boston a few months back she’d have figured out this was a bad idea. The state police said they were prepared to use deadly force against her if she resisted arrest. I hope in this case, they throw the book at her. Dangerously excessive stupidity should be punished. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/2 "2007-09-21T14:58:05Z")
The sad thing is how many people would be up in arms if they actually executed deadly force on this nitwit. Put her in a cell and let her rot, that kind of stupid doesn’t deserve free air. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/3 "2007-09-21T14:59:54Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Story [here](http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14171964/detail.html). She had a circuit board, wiring, and play-doh strapped to her chest “in plain view”. You’d think after the whole Aqua-Teen fiasco in Boston a few months back she’d have figured out this was a bad idea. The state police said they were prepared to use deadly force against her if she resisted arrest. I hope in this case, they throw the book at her. Dangerously excessive stupidity should be punished. [/QUOTE] I’m with you. As a Boston resident, I was embarrassed at the ridiculous response to the whole Aqua Teen fiasco. But, if the limited facts in that story are correct, this woman is a complete idiot who _purposely_ faked a bomb scare. 😕 She deserves whatever punishment the law allows. Also, time to review your admission requirements, MIT 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/4 "2007-09-21T15:01:38Z")
Hmmm… She’s a [swimmer](http://mitathletics.cstv.com/sports/w-swim/mtt/simpson_star00.html) on the women’s team. Wonder if this is some horribly misjudged initiation prank. You’d think MIT students would be a little smarter. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/5 "2007-09-21T15:04:27Z")
Let’s hope the reasons behind her motivation will be made public. She a soph ay MIT. There’s got to be something besides stupidity driving such an ill-advised act. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/6 "2007-09-21T15:04:36Z")
What the hell did she think she was doing? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/7 "2007-09-21T15:10:32Z")
From her site: [http://stars.mit.edu/me.html](http://stars.mit.edu/me.html) > [@](#): > > In a sentence, I’m an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas. I’ll say. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/8 "2007-09-21T15:10:54Z")
FWIW, here’s the [law](http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/266-102a.5.htm) against “hoax devices” that they were threatening to use against the Aqua-teen guys. At the time, it seemed unlikely since they didn’t really pass the intent part of the law - they weren’t intending to cause “anxiety, unrest, fear, or personal discomfort.” Hard to see how this moron will be able to argue anything else. Hope she likes Framingham. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/9 "2007-09-21T15:22:10Z")
> [@The Boston Channel](#): > > Simpson is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology sophomore Not for much longer, I’ll guess. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/10 "2007-09-21T15:30:12Z")
According to [this](http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/09/21/woman_enters_logan_with_fake_bomb_police_say/), her “crazy idea” was apparently to put on a fake bomb and then walk up to the Information Booth and ask a trivial question about an incoming flight, then walk out again, and stand around where the shuttle busses come in, and see what happens, I guess. The attendant at the booth called security, and troopers showed up with “submachine guns”. " :eek: " but hardly surprising, considering. Second the “she is _incredibly_ lucky to be alive”. I hope she goes to jail. Really. There’s collegiate dumbassery, and then there’s collegiate dumbassery that gets people killed. How long before some other clueless adolescent thinks it would be cute to razz the Grups with a fake bomb at the local airport, and _those_ security guys shoot first and ask questions later? At least she wasn’t wearing a sign that said “I can has crazy ideas”. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/11 "2007-09-21T15:33:14Z")
Is that the same Logan Airport that American Airlines Flight 11 and United Flight 175 took off from on September 11, 2001? Total assholery at its finest. That’s the second person named Simpson I hope rots in prison. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/12 "2007-09-21T15:37:37Z")
What REALLY sucks is that if she actually did get tasered or shot, you know that the first thing somebody is going to ask is: “Was that an overreaction?” :rolleyes: (This reminds me of the time that one guy got shot at…Miami airport, I believe, when he freaked out and ran out of the plane. The security people chased him down and shot him–and a lot of people expressed cynicism that security had exaggerated how threatning the man looked as to cover their asses.) ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/13 "2007-09-21T15:38:43Z")
I’m a little concerned that her actions go beyond breathtaking stupidity into the territory of a death wish. She’s extremely fortunate she wasn’t killed. I would definitely like to know more about her state of mind because these actions aren’t just dumb, they are borderline suicidal. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/14 "2007-09-21T15:39:27Z")
Her parents must be so proud. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/15 "2007-09-21T15:45:44Z")
Could she have been aiming for “suicide by cop”? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/16 "2007-09-21T15:47:50Z")
Either border line suicidal or border line mentally ill (or both). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/17 "2007-09-21T16:08:52Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Either border line suicidal or border line mentally ill (or both). [/QUOTE] Or totally immature “Oh, the law doesn’t appy to me. Oh, I’m just having a little fun. Oh, lighten up.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/18 "2007-09-21T16:11:58Z")
My WAG: She was operating under the impression that airport security sucked and was intending to show how lax it was as a sort of performance piece. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/19 "2007-09-21T16:18:58Z")
[QUOTE=dotchan] What REALLY sucks is that if she actually did get tasered or shot, you know that the first thing somebody is going to ask is: “Was that an overreaction?” :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Actually, based on the reaction to this thread, I don’t think that would be the first question at all. Imagined reactions by “somebody” is not what what REALLY sucks about this. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990/20 "2007-09-21T16:24:49Z")
What worries me is that she is supposedly smart enough to get into MIT. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-wears-fake-bomb-in-logan-airport/419990.md?page=2)