Fri 21 Sep 2007
Well, I thought MIT students were supposed to be smart, but apparently I am wrong. Generally, I think security at airports is a joke and that TSA officials tend to go overboard, but in this case, I can’t disagree with them.
http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html
September 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Give me a break. She walked up to someone to ask when a flight is coming in… that screams terrorist to me…
The story is out from the cops only on this one, and I’m sure their report justifies overreacting. Waiting for more detail, but to me it looks like the cops completely overreacted.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:30 am
I’m with Sujal. Total over-reaction. The cops were right to be wary, right up until the point where they stopped her. Once they realized the “device” was harmless and she wasn’t waving it around calling it a bomb, they should have sent her on her way. Trying to charge her with having a hoax device is crap…it means that the difinition of a hoax device is in the eye of the beholder and no whether the device is or is not actually meant to look like a weapon. A cell phone charger hanging out of a backpack could be a “device” to someone who is truly paranoid.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:04 am
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