Only in America Can You Get Arrested for Wearing Bad T-Shirts at the Airport
 

Absolutely disgusting. This country really has gone mad. Lets face it, the fucking terrorists have already won.

"Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art."

""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."

"She was immediately told to stop, to raise her hands and not to make any movement, so we could observe all her movements to see if she was trying to trip any type of device," Pare said. "Had she not followed the protocol, we might have used deadly force."

He added, "She's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...939539,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...u3KXghmCB32tCw

Are you retarded? Seriously.

Some dumb ass makes something that looks like it could possibly be a bomb and gets caught while doing it, and you act as this is the crazy act of a police state.

There are things you just cannot do, like yell fire in a crowded movie theater. Not being able to do these things have nothing to do with losing any freedoms, however have everything to do with using some common fucking sense, which to me is a skill most people born past 1972 just don't have.

Get your head out of your ass, and find something else more important to focus on. Seriously, this is not a battle worth fighting. If you want to fight this asshat administration we have here, do it on a real issue like the war.

rhetorical question I guess

She should just be happy a random citizen at the airport didn't tackle and beat the living shit out of her. Had she been Arab, they would have...

Don't want attention? Don't draw it.

:thumbsup

i'm pretty liberal but this is plain stupidity.

I saw the shirt on the news and she is lucky she wasnt shot.

What an idiot... art, yes.

Guess they dont do common sense testing to get into mit.

My thoughts exactly.

Smart != Wise.

she knew what she was doing....she was holding playdoh in her hand

she wanted to get on the news & she did

although as a member of the ACLU i am inclined to call bullshit on the 8 storm troopers putting sub machine guns in her face

they should have just smacked the bitch & told her to go home

"for wearing bad t-shirts" ??

That's not a bad t-shirt, that's hardware.

As a co-member of the ACLU, I dunno.

There's a limit to freedom of speech... right at the moment it affects another person's rights to life, liberty, or property.

You can't yell fire in a crowded room.

What she did here was akin to brandishing a toy gun in the audience of a political speaker, I think.

The authorities acted as if it was a real threat - and I have no problem with that.

I think she did want the attention and succeeded in getting tons of it. Smart chick :)

Ahhhh... and that is true freedom isn't it? :thumbsup


I agree, the terrorist have already won. And with comments like the one above, it's for the best anyway.

she's an electrical engineering student
she made some "electric name-tag" that lit up her name.
made for some career day or something.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/0...udent-arr.html

nice hair

Um, no. She wasn't making a statement. She wasn't displaying art. She was trying to cause a problem. She wanted attention, she got it.

It has nothing to do with being a terrorist. It is no more okay to yell fire in a movie theater than it does when she did. Is that bowing before terrorism too? Because people have actual safety standards?

Puhleaze.

If I went to a Boy Scout meeting with a T-shirt that said "I touch little boys" I would expect to wake up in the hospital the next morning.

How many bombers do you know that just walk around stopping at information desks and asking about flights with their bombs strapped around themselves? The 9/11 guys did not wear their box cutters on their outsides, did they? Or wait, well, they might have, since 9/11 was orchestrated by government agents including Bush himself.

This was way overkill. Every laptop in the airport could be a bomb. Lets stop and arrest everyone.

Having lived on both sides of the badge, I have to agree that they had to take every precaution necessary, and did not over-react. Aside from being arrested at gunpoint, if they now slap her on the wrist in court, THEN the terrorists win. It opens the door for people to do stupid shit and endanger everyones safety. What she did is a real crime (whether she meant it or not).

We live in a society, with other people, not on our own deserted Islands. You cannot recklessly endanger the welfare of other people for art. That's not free expression that is saying it's OK to do stupid shit. You know what happens when people are allowed to do stupid shit? The rest of us lose focus and someone takes box cutters on an airplane and kills a couple thousand people.

We live in a world with fucking sickos. Unfortunately we have to give up some freedom in order to keep our kids from being blown the fuck to hell. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

I may draw some fire for agreeing with the authorities on this, but I don't really care, as long as I can get on a plane without getting blown to kingdom come.:2 cents:

Art my ass :1orglaugh

She knew she would be arrested & put on the news..
Now she's being talked about all over the net, wired magazine & more..

She just wanted the attention to herself..

Oh christ, I had no idea she was black.

I WAS gonna say the authorities acted as they should. Because she's black however, they no doubt overreacted.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/graphics/simpson-1.jpg

She doesn't look too unhappy with the attention there, no.

agreed :2 cents:

if she had gotten arrested for a shirt that said "FUCK BUSH" I would have been pissed... however; she's a fucking retard for wearing that TO THE AIRPORT... I kinda wish they shot the dipshit... christ knows the gene pool doesn't need idiots like that reproducing :/

Voice of experience?








:winkwink:

That was in regards to your statement, "Don't want attention? Don't draw it."

When I managed for Taco Bell we had a similar incident occur. A guy drives up to the drive in window and pulls out a toy gun.

As my assistant manager and I drop to the floor away from the window, I notice the orange cap in the barrel and realize it's only a toy.

However, the guy was still arrested and charged with the same crime as if he were brandishing a real gun.

He was only kidding, but how were we supposed to know that, and what if he only said it was a joke just because it turned out badly for him?

Another point. You have a right to travel freely through this country from state to state...however you do not have the right to do it via airplane, or car of that matter.

Flying in a plane and getting across country in a matter of hours is a privilege, just like driving.

This girl should lose that privilege, along with spend a bit of time in jail.

Yes you do have a right to do it in a car or by plane. Regardless of what the pamphlets at the tag agent say, it became a right when they started using tax dollars to build airports and roads. The taxes are not optional so the government delivering the right they sold us is not optional, either.

The thread title is very damn correct. Only in America can you get arrested for wearing bad t-shirts at the airport.

In most every other country they wouldnt of chanced it and poped a few caps in your skull then figured it all out. She is damn lucky she even got arrested.

Your situation is different. The person who had the toy gun passed it off as being real. He wanted you to think it was and you did. And thus he was arrested, etc.

This girl did not threaten to detonate the shirt or give any hint that it would be possible to do so. No one in their right mind thought this was actually a bomb. This is even demonstrated by the fact that they didn't evacuate anyone or cancel any flights. If they really thought someone was walking around the airport with a bomb on their shirt, the whole damn place would have been locked down tighter than a virgin's twat.

Hi! I am an MIT attention whore!

Sounds like she was looking for a fight to me.

"...made this observation, immediately became concerned, asking her about the item was located on her chest.

With No response, the female began to walk away"

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/21/bom...ml#cnnSTCVideo

"Simpson then ?roamed briefly around the terminal,? Wark said. Margolis said this caused several Logan employees to flee the building."

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html

So the people who fled weren't in their right mind? If someone passed me in an airport wearing a device like that, I'm guessing I wouldn't stand there and analyze whether or not the "bomb" might be real or might be ART.

What HINT should anyone have expected that she was gonna blow something up? Did the 9/11 hijackers HINT that they had knives and were going to hijack planes before they did? The HINT in this case was her walking through an airport terminal with an electronic device strapped to her and play doh in her hands.

You are consistently wrong.

How do you manage that?

It has nothing to do with any pamphlet, it's basic common sense, something you can't seem to show any evidence of in this thread.

Continue to exercise your right to drive...LOL

American security at airports sucks, it's a fucking farce. Stop over night in New York on your way to LA and you're subjected to an extra search because the rules say so.

Your ages are 56, 28, 5. You're white obviously a family, blonde wife, blonde daughter and a greying balding English guy. But still they NEED to search your luggage.

You're a Iranian student changing planes at JFK and they don't say squat because to target you would be racial.

They have lines backed up for hours doing a cursory search of everyone, 99% are obviously not terrorist but have to be search so as to be Politically Correct. So they don't look at the luggage of the most likely.

If you want to fight this asshat administration we have here, do it on a real issue like the war.

what about the hooters girl

There shouldn't be laws to stop this kind of thing. There should be beefy black men with itchy fists to knock sense into people like this though. The person who shouts 'fire' in a crowded room should get his ass kicked, not go to jail.

that shit is no art.

Yeah, like the brazilian dude who got shot in london because they thought he was a terrorist.

Now wearing this?
http://boingboing.net/images/cfa4827...921device3.jpg

I would shot her myself if I was on an airport and she passed by.

How fucking funny is that???

http://rschosting.com/temp/stupid.jpg

You'd just be wandering around in an airport with a gun, would you?

YOU ARE A TERRORIST!

See how easy it is to point the finger...

don't let the news spread, I am flying soon, it would cause me problems :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I see your point, but what I really wanted to say was more like, I would run like fuck, or pray for baby jesus.
Just wanted to look badass, but I failed :\

Lol :) This reply made me hate GFY slightly less. :thumbsup

Looks suspicious enough to me that I would of cracked open her gray matter with whatever was near by.

On another note, has MIT lowered their standards? that is some crappy looking electronics even if it is supposed to be "art".

19 years ? she knew what she was doing, 100% !

a true attention whore, I would beat the shit out of her!!

Why do most female engineering students look like men?

I know what you are talking about. The single reason I have in mind now is that the engineering work is made mainly for men.

wearing such thing is looking for trouble

:eyecrazy Holy shit! She wore this to a fucking AIRPORT!? I would have started yelling and running for cover if I saw someone walking around an airport wearing this with a handful of play-doh. She is lucky security didn't shoot her.

If the cops are morons.

Sorry I forgot terrorists draw as much attention to themselves as possible and it's very likely they will wear a big sign saying "I'm a terrorist". Bad taste yes, stupid certainly, but neither are crimes.

Still how safer do you feel now she's locked up?