Not all M.I.T. students are smart

Kilarney

Note to self: Don't bring a fake bomb to an airport and call it "art".
Article here.

HMTKSteve

Before she enrolled at MIT, she traveled the world “saving the planet from evil villains with my delivered-just-in-time gadgets,” according to her site.

Nothing more needs to be said.

xenomouse

The fact that her name is "Star" hints that she is of hippie lineage, and she's 19 years old. Coupled with her crime-fighting mission statement, it seems she may have a few screws loose that MIT may need a bit more time to tighten.

I wonder if she understands how fortunate she is to be alive right now.

Viga

Usually I find the good intentions in things. In this case all I find is stupidity of how the world is today. Hell, you could even of gotten away with this 20 years ago!

I wonder if she understands how fortunate she is to be alive right now.

I probably would of shot on site and then later regretted it. I don't think she thought of the consequences or thought anything out thoroughly.

Alan

Yeah I heard on talk radio a interview with one of the arresting officers that she was very lucky and if she had made one slip up when they were arresting her they would have shot her.

Symmetry

There's a lot more information about the topic at boingboing.

I'm aware that the only time most people ever see hand made electronics is when there's a bomb in a Hollywood movie so I guess I'm not too surprised that that would be the conclusion that someone at an airport would jump too, but I still feel a little bit odd about the whole situation. I think I've actually seen her wearing that around the MIT campus once and I didn't really even notice it then except to think "ooh, LEDs." I have a lot of sympathy for how someone could not realize that something that isn't unusual in their normal environment could appear to someone from a very different background.