Circuit boards causing problems in Boston again
Boston police have overreacted again (remember the advertising campaign for the Cartoon Network that caused chaos in Boston in January?) and arrested a student for wearing a circuit board on her sweatshirt at Boston’s Logan Airport. Whether you regard the charges as “paranoid” or think that the student showed “a total disregard to understand the context of the situation she is in, which is an airport of post-9/11”, depends on your point of view. She was apprehended by several State Troopers armed with submachine-guns – luckily she obeyed their orders to freeze:
“She was immediately told to stop, to raise her hands and not to make any movement, so we could observe all her movements to see if she was trying to trip any type of device,” a police spokesman said. “Had she not followed the protocol, we might have used deadly force.”He added, “She’s lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue.”