Darwin Awards…
Star Simpson was charged with possessing a hoax device today at Logan International Airport for wearing a sweatshirt that had a circuit board affixed to the front with green LED lights and wires running to a 9-volt battery.(…)
Juste pour rire, je suis allé visiter le site des Darwin Awards. Ils ont une section de “mentions honorables” pour les idiots qui ont frôlés la mort mais qui ont survécus.
Eh bien pas de chance, Star Simpson a déjà été mentionné sur leur site mais je ne crois pas qu’elle y soit encore.
Outside the terminal, Simpson was surrounded by police holding machine guns.
“She was immediately told to stop, to raise her hands, and not make any movement so we could observe all her movements to see if she was trying to trip any type of device,” Pare said at a press conference at Logan. “There was obviously a concern that had she not followed the protocol … we may have used deadly force.”
Simpson was arrested, and it was quickly determined that the device was harmless.
“She said it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day,” Pare said. “She was holding what was later found to be playdough.”
Ouais, bref, elle est allé dans un aéroport avec ce qui semblait être une bombe. Une bombe. Aux États Unis. Dans un aeroport. On pourrais croire qu’elle est conne comme la lune, non?
“Thankfully because she followed our instructions, she ended up in our cell instead of a morgue,” Pare said. “Again, this is a serious offense … I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport.”
Les agents de sécurité étaient prêts à l’abattre sur le champ si elle n’avait pas suivi leurs instructions. Vraiment conne, non?
According to the MIT website, Simpson is from Kihei, Hawaii, and is a sprinter on the school’s swim team. On Simpson’s personal website at MIT, she says she is studying computers and enjoys tinkering in a student-run machine shop.
“In a sentence, I’m an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas,” the website says.
En fait, oui, elle est conne. Le fait que MIT (l’institut technologique du Massachusetts) compte des gens aussi stupid que ça fait réfléchir sur leurs critères de sélection, mais le fait qu’elle y soit N’EXCUSE EN RIEN SA STUPIDITÉ.