Comments on: Boston LED sweatshirt arrestee interviewed

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:55:37 +0000

@roboguy

Terrorists are many things. Dangerous, yes. Violent, yes. Frightening, yes. But dumb? No, with the possible exception of that shoe bomber.

There are no conceivable reasons to have blinkenlights on a bomb. None. If it were me, I’d just wire up a mechanical alarm clock and a D cell battery. And in today’s climate that would be less suspicious than this LED blinky, even though it’s probably the technologically simplest way to make a timed detonator. Hell, most of today’s terrorists use suicide bombers, so you don’t even need a timer.

You may disagree with their ideology, and you may prefer that they don’t kill you, and you may wish them all a painful death. But asking them to fight a conventional war would be like asking the U.S. army to stand in a staggered line three men deep wearing brightly colored uniforms and shoot in the general direction of the opposing side.

By: Túlio F.

Túlio F. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:00:59 +0000

Airport security training advanced class -
Identifying bombs:
– Look for big red tubes
– Beard
– Lights in form of a heart
– Display counting down from 10
– Flowers

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:36:35 +0000

Did you all read this article?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/06/03/mit_student_apologizes_for_shirt_that_led_to_logan_disturbance/

She apologized. They reacted as they could. They don’t have time to ask the person, “Is that weird thing with wires and stuff in your shirt a bomb? Oh it’s not? Well then go ahead.” They stopped her to make sure. They dropped the charges because she was co-operating.

Everything isn’t a conspiracy or paranoid behavior!

By: Horses Die

Horses Die — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:49:44 +0000

Your life should not be ruined because you act within your rights in an airport. It doesn’t matter about common sense here, nothing she did was unlawful. You should be all be ashamed of yourselves throwing away the rule of law.

By: McSquid

McSquid — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:52:15 +0000

@elfin sux
No offense, but you are proving him right.

Americans are not stupid by themselves. But we are stupid in groups. Why? because we are kept that way by people in charge.

This IS insane, I understand the fact that they need to be cautious in this day and age, but CHARGING her after it was proved that it was a harmless device? That’s crap. Also, if it isn’t the police’s job to identify what is a threat and what isn’t then who’s job IS it? I cant think of any person who needs to know this kind of thing MORE than the people in charge of keeping us safe.

By: Elfin Slade Sux ASS

Elfin Slade Sux ASS — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:01:55 +0000

first of all, she was a bitch in high school and probably still is…

second, elfin slade can just suck my ass, I’m sick listening to these stupid piece of shit people who obviously have never been to the US just complain about how we are all “stupid Americans” well fuck you elfin shade you are a piece of shit and I hope you get runover by a volkswagon… What super special country are you from huh? I bet it sucks just as hard as you do dumb ass…

By: Mic

Mic — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:51 +0000

so why did you read her instructable, Sean?

By: Elfin Slade

Elfin Slade — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:32:49 +0000

USA is full of dumb people. No wonder they work for the government ;-)

By: Roboguy

Roboguy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:00:18 +0000

@ a lot of people here.

What she had on her shirt was a device, yes? An
I mprovised
D evice

add a little bit of E and you get an… IED.

terrorists especially are dumb as @#$@, so why shouldn’t the police react to something as dumb as this?

By: sean

sean — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:29:05 +0000

all this woman is is an attention whore.
she walked in and, “trolled”, if you will, the airport and all of us. her instructable of how to make this sweatshirt proves it.
and were giving her the attention. god.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:54:12 +0000

This is ridiculous. When has there EVER been a terrorist attack with a blinking bomb, except in Hollywood? Can I assume that this is where police are getting their training from?

By: Captainscorpio

Captainscorpio — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:09:16 +0000

She was stupid, in the same way someone is stupid for jogging in a dangerous park after dark; she should have known people would do bad things to her, but it doesn’t give those people the right to do them.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:06:09 +0000

To agree with all who have stated this already, I think this is clearly an overreaction on the part of airport security. They fucked up, and did not admit their mistake. It should have been a simple misunderstanding in which everyone walks away. It can be argued that she was not showing proper judgment, but I think that being afraid to NOT commit a crime is symptomatic of a sick society.

I flew from Chicago to Boston with an entire tube amp, in parts, in my carry-on. I also had a maglite and a microphone. The TSA was very thorough with me, but respectful and understanding. But hey, I’m white.

By: kaj

kaj — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:29:57 +0000

I can excuse the overreaction to the “electronic menace” on her shirt (barely excuse…), but I cannot excuse the complete B.S. response that followed up by delaying the case because the media is paying too much attention, and charging her with SOMETHING just so they could justify the wasted tax dollars.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:19:44 +0000

@Emtu: She wasn’t even *trying* to get on a plane!

Today it’s DIY electronics in airports. What’s next? Everybody who owns a van is suspected of having a huge bomb in the back? How about everybody who buys fertilizer and drives a van, that ought to be enough to lock someone up!

Freedom is chipped away a small piece at a time. If you do anything in your spare time besides eating, sleeping, and watching stupid TV programs, you’re dangerous, because you are *different*.