BOSTON—Troopers arrested an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 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.
Via Flutterby [1], “MIT student charged with wearing fake bomb she says was only art [2]”
And upon further reading, she wasn't wearing the circuit board to make a statement about airport security theatrics [3], but to gain attention at a career day at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [4], and was only at the airport to pick up her boyfriend.
Just below the masthead up there, I've written “The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal ‘The Boston Diaries.’” At the time, I didn't like Boston because it's old (you really have to look to find anything in South Florida build prior to the 1960s, and as a result, most every building down here is “modern” in that it was initially designed with bathrooms, decent electrical and more importantly—air conditioning!), cold (water freezes down here at 40°F) and a twisty maze of one-way roads all alike (not to mention the drivers—think we have bad drivers? Hah!).
But this crap? This, along with the Mooninite scare [5], the Traffic Counter scare [6], mandatory health insurance [7] (and if you don't have it, you pay even more in taxes) and hypocritical liberal weenies [8], has dropped my opinion of Boston even further.
[1] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/10505.html
[2] http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/09/21/woma
[3] http://www.google.com/search?q=airport+security+theatrics
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_scare
[6] http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03/01/boston-suspicious-device-was
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_2006_Health_Reform_Statute
[8] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/09/why_liberals_are_turn