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MIT computer whiz arrested with fake bomb at Logan airport

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=201808203

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By Paul McDougallInformationWeek
September 21, 2007 12:50 PM

A woman arrested Friday for carrying a fake bomb into Boston's Logan airport is an MIT computer whiz who loves "crazy ideas" and "saving the planet from evil villains," according to her blog on a Web site http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adT...lass_10x10.gif hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In her blog http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adT...lass_10x10.gif, MIT student Star Simpson says she is "currently studying computers and how they work." Simpson also participates in MIT's MITER project, a student run electronics engineering workshop.
Cops arrested Simpson, 19, on Friday after she reportedly walked into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb made of lights, wires, and putty strapped to her chest. She was charged with disturbing the peace and perpetrating a hoax.
An MIT spokeswoman on Friday confirmed that Simpson is currently enrolled in the school's famed computer science program. The spokeswoman could not say whether the school is contemplating any disciplinary action against Simpson. "It's too early to say," she said. The spokeswoman said MIT is planning to release a formal statement on the matter.
Simpson's blog indicates she previously lived in Hawaii. It reveals a personality that could be described as quirky. She writes that she previously spent time "traveling the world and saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets." Two of the flights that were hijacked as part of the September 11 terror attacks originated at Logan. As a result, Boston city officials have little tolerance for terror-related hoaxes. Earlier this year, two men were arrested for planting bomb-like devices around Boston in an effort to drum up publicity for the cable show Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

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Originally Posted by AlethiaSi (Post 1524642)

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=201808203

1. She must have been hididng under a rock since 2001

2. She is lucky she wasn't killed on the spot....

**sidebar** remember the guy who didn't take his meds on the plane and flipped out only to be killed by the cops...?

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1524651)

seriously! i know!

um... NO?! when did this happen?? :confused::confused: Doesn't surprise me though.... :(

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Originally Posted by AlethiaSi (Post 1524660)

seriously! i know!

um... NO?! when did this happen?? :confused::confused: Doesn't surprise me though.... :(

back in 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4508432.stm

I would not have felt sorry for her if she was killed. Honestly. What an ass.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/da...7580287953.jpg

She went to HPA.

'Nuff said. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by OTW (Post 1524677)

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/da...7580287953.jpg

She went to HPA.

'Nuff said. :rolleyes:

sorry call me slow....what is HPA?

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1524682)

sorry call me slow....what is HPA?

you aren't slow i'm like :confused::confused: too.
OTW is always down with the lingo, yo. :p

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1524682)

sorry call me slow....what is HPA?

Sorry, that was just an inside joke for me.

The local newspapers here say she's from Maui, but she attended Hawaii Preparatory Academy in Kamuela on the Big Island. HPA's the most expensive boarding school in the state, and they're known for breeding eccentrics.

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Originally Posted by OTW (Post 1524691)

somehow I knew a high school was involved...LOL

I gotta hold her parents slightly responsible for this one...
Star Simpson? Really? Poor thing - bless her heart.

But yeah, fake bomb = bad idea. Especially if your name is Star.

"traveling the world and saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets."

Hmmmm...does this sound like a TV show to you...hehe

I will not call her Hiro

There's obviously a difference between being intelligent enough to go to MIT and being smart.

Stupid move on her part.

Did she think she is smart enough to "beat" the security system?

That could have been "terminal" dumb -with no pun intended.

At MIT, we used the acronym SPAMIT - Stupid People At MIT. There used to be a group that sold t-shirts with the acronym and a doctored version of the MIT seal - one of the men on the seal is wearing fuzzy bunny slippers, for example.

If anyone deserves the label SPAMIT, it's this chick.

Apparently, when the police approached her, she did exactly what they told her to do - and if she hadn't, they could have used deadly force.

Cut me a break. It was a circuit board. Open up any computer, your walkman, your tv...anything and there's a circuitboard inside. That's not a bomb. It looks nothing like a bomb. In fact, why don't you list the number of instances where someone wore an object that looked nothing like a bomb on a shirt and walked around an airport? Oh wait, that's never/rarely happened and hence lends nothing to precedence?

She should have been shot for that? That's the appropriate thing to do? Why not also shoot every person that's not carrying a bible and a Republican membership card in their hand?

Are you people that stupid? Wow.

-Rudey