This is supposedly an intelligent woman. She was, after all, admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But common sense is apparently not a factor in admission. First, there is her hair and then, she pulls this stunt:
The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.
Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a hoax device. Her attorney described the charge as offbase and “almost paranoid,” arguing at a court hearing that she did not act in a suspicious manner and had told an airport worker that the device was art.
Authorities said they were amazed that someone would wear such a device eight months after a similar scare in Boston, and six years after two of the jets hijacked in the Sept. 11 attacks took off from Logan.
“I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport,” said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the airport’s commanding officer.
Stupidity is too weak a word for this act. She is lucky to be alive. What is more appalling is the words of her lawyer in defending her. Before we get to her defense, let’s understand what exactly she did. According to authorities:
She wore the white circuit board on her chest over a black hooded sweat shirt, Pare said at a news conference. The battery-powered rectangular device had nine flashing lights, and Simpson had Play-Doh in her hands, he said.
Two phrases that looked hand-drawn – “Socket to me” and “Course VI” – were written on the back of Simpson’s sweat shirt, which authorities displayed to the media. Course VI appears to refer to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s major of electrical engineering and computer science.
That’s not to overt and cryptic. So how do you defend wearing this outfit into an airport:
She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day,” Pare said. “She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it.”
Her lawyer condemns the actions of the airport security and called them paranoid. And what would have been said if this “art” was allowed to continue unabated through the airport? What would the security be called then?
This woman had an agenda wearing that and it is being played out in the media. Hooray for the airport security. Good job. Hopefully this woman gets a fitting punishment.
