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	Saying "you should know better than to stand up for your rights" is abhorrent

Lexica

9-25-2008 2:50 PM

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Lexica says:

From a thread on BoingBoing, discussing 9/21/07,

the day on which 19-year-old MIT engineering student Star Simpson walked into Boston's Logan International Airport wearing a home-made light-up sweatshirt, and asked an airport worker for information about a friend's arriving flight.

...in a persisting environment of anxiety over terrorism, a Boston Logan Airport worker mistook Star Simpson's LED-adorned wearable tech garment for a suicide bomb. That airport worker phoned Boston police. A small misunderstanding over a hoodie quickly became a surreal debacle during which police said they came close to killing Ms. Simpson.

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9-25-2008 7:47 PM

carrerinyes

Crazy story! Homeland Security...? Homeland Terrorists.

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