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Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?

An MIT student wanted to stand out on career day by wearing a jacket that lights up. Airport cops nearly killed her for it.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Friday, September 21, 2007 02:26 PM

    Simpson is "extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used."

    Yeah.. she's lucky. We should all thank our lucky fucking stars that we are not all subject to unreasonable search and seizure, that there are laws guiding the surveillance of our citizens, that we have a document that is the law of the land, above all other laws in the form of constitutional rights and that.... oh... wait a minute... never mind.... I forgot.

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