Wearable art

For better coverage on the woman arrested today for wearing a fake bomb see this boing boing post.   Boston police-types overreact again!   It wasn't supposed to be a bomb, a hoax, or even a stunt.  She's an MIT student and was just picking someone up at the airport wearing her regular hoodie.  The hoodie happened to have painted wire that lights up built into it, but it's simply wearable art.  That's what people do at MIT.  The AP report says something about how suspicious it is that she had play-doh on her hands.  Play-doh!  The AP also includes an official saying she's lucky she's not dead.  Haven't they heard of Tasers?  It's what everyone else in a uniform is doing.   

Our adventures with TSA include taking itty bitty shoes off a one year old to be scanned.  Having our toy bag (with its plastic dinosaurs and Thomas Trains) searched carefully each and every time we go through security.  And now my laptop always gets tested, turned on, and the like.  I finally figured out that they flag my laptop because last year I took it apart to change the hard drive.   I'm sure that there are little scratches around the laptop's tiny, little screws that give off all kinds of red flags.