There were lights, also apparently...WIRES!Follow

As a piece of artwork, my reaction is "meh".

Um, yeah, that's what he said, moron.

What I found amusing was this chick's bizarrely blonde-dyed frizzy hair. She looks sorta like Mikey from "American Choppers".

She's got dark skin and her hair looks like a turban.

bloody fools in charge of boston.

Easy, I'm related to 50% of those fools.

You're all right. I can't think of any reason why the average rent-a-cops at an airport would think that a wiring block with taped wires and a battery could possibly be a bomb.

She was an idiot to do that. Plain and simple. She couldn't wait to show her boyfriend her crappy "artwork" until they were in the car? What part of "Don't take anything into an airport that looks remotely suspicious or out of the ordinary" is confusing for people? It's just common sense...

Sure. They probably should have. However, if you've paid any attention to the news over the last year or so, there have been numerous occurrences at airports that most experts believe are "trial runs" for terrorist attacks. What's happening is that people will try to go through airport security with common ordinary (and non-dangerous) items configured in such a way as to make them look like they could be dangerous. So a block of cheese with wires sticking out of it taped to a battery. Or modeling clay (also wrapped in wires with a battery).

In most cases these are things that no sane/normal person would do. But since they're not "actually" dangerous, they haven't actually threatened anyone. The assumption by most security experts is that these are attempts to probe airport security and see what they can get through security. A secondary effort appears to be to attempt to apply pressure to security at airports to be cautious about questioning such odd objects unless they are sure it's actually something dangerous. The thinking being that if you cause a ruckus every time those "stupid airport security guys" mistake a block of cheese for an explosive device, some of the morons out there in Americaland will pressure those cops to be more careful, and they'll maybe miss something that's really dangerous.


So yeah. It's not like this is out of the blue. I'll repeat what I said earlier. It's just not that hard. Don't take anything into an airport that could remotely be seen as something dangerous. Don't wrap wires and stuff into a bundle. Don't bring a big battery attached to some odd looking device. Heck. Don't bring anything electronic that isn't clearly a standard commercial product. I just don't see how this is such a hard thing for people to do...

that little piece of plastic garbage got confused as a bomb? wtf if people got this worked up or that then how would they react to a scrolling LED belt buckle without a case

Probably just trying to draw attention to the fact that the BoToxBoSox are in the process of dumping the AL East which they at one point held a 14.5-game lead over the Yank-me's.

They're taking the luxury they have of setting up their rotation for the playoffs. We're a little beyond caring about AL East division banners at this point.

They're both in Cambridge, actually.

Harvard Medical, yes. Harvard University, no.

Harvard Medical, yes. Harvard University, no.

Hi, moron. The Medical School is part of the University. As is the Business School, also in Boston. See, "Universities" have subdivisions often referred to as "Schools". I KNOW it's complicated and difficult to understand. Well at least for anyone who hasn't attended any of them, certainly.

****.

All of my Harvard lectures have been to medical students or Business students studying healthcare management; some in Cambridge, but most in Boston, south of the river from Cambridge (Longwood Avenue rings a bell).


And besides, R-tard, it was a fUcking joke, not a philosophical challenge.