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[TonyGosling]

Student wearing fake bomb 'artwork' arrested at US airport amid terror scare
21st September 2007


Star Simpson leaving court in Boston

An American student sparked a major terror scare after walking into an airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest that she claimed was artwork.

Star Simpson, 19, who wore a circuit board and wiring over a black hooded sweat shirt, was arrested at gunpoint by anti-terror police.

Officers said Simpson, who was clasping Play-Doh and wearing a battery-powered gadget that lit up wires, was lucky not to have been killed as she entered Boston's Logan International Airport.

She was charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a hoax device, arraigned and bailed to return to court on October 29.

Major Scott Pare, of Massechusetts State Police, said: "She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day.

"She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it.

"I'm shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport."

Simpson was "extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," Pare added.

"She's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."

Simpson, from Hawaii, is in her second year a Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

A spokeswoman for MIT had no immediate comment.

She was arrested about 8 a.m. outside Terminal C, home to United Airlines, Jet Blue and other carriers.

A Massachusetts Port Authority staffer manning an information booth in the terminal became suspicious when Simpson - wearing the device - approached to ask about an incoming flight.

Simpson then walked outside, and the information booth attendant notified a nearby trooper.

The trooper, joined by others with submachine guns, confronted her at a traffic island in front of the terminal.

Pare said Simpson took a subway to the airport, but he was not sure if she had the device on at that time.

He said: "She was allegedly picking somebody up."

The major praised the booth attendant but said the incident is a reminder of the terrorism threat confronting the civil aviation system.

Two of the four passenger jets hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, took off from Logan.

"In this day and age, the threat continues to be there," said Pare. "She certainly jeopardized her own safety by bringing this to the airport, as well as the safety of everybody around her."

The city was the focus of a major security scare January 31 when dozens of battery-powered devices were discovered in various locations.

Bomb squads were deployed, and highways, bridges and some transit stations were temporarily closed.

They turned out to be a promotion for cable TV's Cartoon Network.

[TruthLeeds]

I can't really dissagree with being arrested for this.

There is no such freedom as the freedom to make fake bomb threats for a joke or for stuff like this.

In actual fact it is terrorism.

Just the same as the governments bogus terror alerts and propaganda are terrorism.