...and apparently there were a lot of those hanging around Logan today.

Still I suppose we must remember that these guys aren't exactly hired for their brains and not exactly paid to think.

Give me a break--she should have shot for stupidity or arrogance alone.

After my 3 year-old was searched before a flight to Florida, I started thinking about what it would take to actually provoke a search. So I created a line of t-shirts that virtually guarantee the TSA will interrogate you. I mean, if you're going to get arrested and threatened with a machine gun, do it on purpose, right?

http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=139039

I would think that people who were planning on blowing something up would 1) be a bit more subtle and 2) BE A BIT MORE SUBTLE. This scares me, not because of the civil rights implications, but because it shows that guards are apparently stupid enough to be distracted by a bit of dazzle. All a terrorist would have to do to get by security would be to send a decoy in with a nite brite so that security would be too busy to notice them.

Here's what I love, the phrase "I don't know, but..."

We don't know what a bomb is supposed to look like so we should just assume that everything that doesn't look like the image we have from movies and TV is not a bomb. Is that about right? Did everyone forget the guy who tried to use his shoe as a bomb, planting the explosive in the heel?

Guess what people, a bomb could be just about anything. So, if it looks even the slightest out of the ordinary someone has to check into it. If there's even a hint it's dangerous then you have to treat it seriously.

Everyone in the airport reacted rightly to this situation. That they don't always react rightly with other issues is not the point.

And for everyone who says anything with a 9-volt battery can't be a bomb just do a simple search on the keywords and you will be shown otherwise.

At least we are providing belligerent morons with some make work which I suppose is better than keeping them at an institution, but arming these idiots is the height of stupidity. Barney Fife looks like Andy Taylor compared to these dullards. Portable game systems, cell phones, and mp3 players are also DANGEROUS objects that have FLASHING LIGHTS but they don't get flagged.

They saw someone who was different and creative instead of a consumer so they ATTACK.

If you aren't perfectly "NORMAL" then you are a target.

So terrorists, put your C4 in ordinary common consumer items and have an accomplice dressed like an art school student to distract and waylay "security" and no one will stop you.

As if there were any real terrorists that weren't paid for and controlled by big brother anyway.

Scare them and take their money, all of their money - the whole point to the hysteria. It also helps to sells a lot of drugs.

Picture Michealangelo and the greats sitting at a round table and picture them weighing in on the topic of art in its modern state...

Art although perception has changed. I am tired of people using the word art to justify foolishness. Although there are alot of variables here i.e. she wore the jacket constantly and forgot about it.

It does not change the fact that we are not mind readers and enter a person at an airport with a device which is no doubt crafted to look like an explosive and even has wording on it to indicate this.

Art was Michealangelo and many of the masters. Now people put an egg on top of a trash bin and call it art. Hmmm, I don't think so. I call this laziness or get a life.

Well then artist - you get what you put out. You have your moment of fame and you know there is some punk out there who will formalize a jacket out of this somewhere and sell it for a price.

You almost were exploded into oblivion over the makeshift device. That is not art, that is irony.

"Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty for Security Deserve Neither." -Franklin

I'll concede that Ms. Simpson choice of airport apparel was wildly ill-advised and naive (especially at Logan). I have to say that, IMHO, her head was at least partially concealed in her nether region.

But I sympathize to a degree with her because I've been so stupid myself...... I once wore SHOES to an airport..... What was I thinking!!!!

I work with those little white protoboards almost every day in my profession, and I could not guarantee that I've never walked into the local airport to shuttle a colleague without a couple of them in a fanny-pack. Seeing something so familiar displayed by some grim gendarme like a seized cache of plutonium gives me pause.

Might another part of this story be the lack of professional circumspection by barely-trained, underpaid TSA agents? I can't help but laugh ruefully at this image of TSA gumshoes elbowing one another to get in the trophy shot of their 'big bust'. Thus sending a clear rebuke to the real terrorists; 'Don't wear something that resembles a detonator on the OUTside of your hoodies.'

It may shock the folks at 'Homeland' but I really don't feel safer as a result. Quite the contrary, in fact, now I have good cause to fear the TSA.

The terrorists have won when we turn on one another.

Do you remember a few month ago, a passenger's sprinkler caused a major airport (LA?) be shutdown - because the inspectors just didn't recognize what that is.

The problem didn't stop at what the cops did there, but how the media and the nation respond to this. Look at the title of this report, "Is Star Simpson's 'fake bomb' just an art jacket". This is the most moderate one I saw so far - no one has any problem calling any thing a 'fake bomb'! Could such stupid cops possibly catch a real terrorist?