{"id":179,"date":"2007-09-21T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/1190383985456.html"},"modified":"2007-09-21T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:13:05","slug":"blogentry-and-now-a-dip-from-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] And Now, &#034;A Dip from MIT&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had not heard about, as my dad put it, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/city_region\/breaking_news\/2007\/09\/mit_student_arr.html&#034;>the dip from MIT<\/a> who walked into Logan airport with a fake bomb.  So apparently she&#039;s both an electrical engineering student as well as an &#034;artist&#034; who wanted to &#034;stand out on career day.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Thoughts:  Ok, she&#039;s an idiot.  That&#039;s obvious.  Anybody who walks into an airport with a fake bomb is asking to get shot.  She&#039;s probably disappointed that she didn&#039;t get injured, she would have gotten more press that way.<\/p>\n<p\/>Thought #2, does anybody besides me think that the quotes from the police actually sound <em>disappointed<\/em> that they didn&#039;t get to shoot her.  The officers are like, &#034;Yeah, well, good thing she totally cooperated with what we said to do, you know, otherwise, we would have had to shoot her&#8230;.yeah&#8230;.&#034;  I get the feeling there&#039;s an airport full of guards this morning who were hoping to get their own tasering video posted on YouTube.  I find that even scarier.  There will always be stupid college kids (particularly those that wish to push the boundaries of &#034;art&#034;), but trigger happy police are worrisome.  Those taser videos are coming out of the woodwork now.<\/p>\n<p\/><b>Update:<\/b> As people that know this person check in, they&#039;re basically saying that the sweatshirt in question (with the circuit board and wires attached to it) is indeed an art project that she wears all the time.  And that, &#034;since MIT students don&#039;t do mornings, and don&#039;t particularly care what they wear&#034;, she made a mistake.  Does it bother anyone else that kids who are supposedly the smartest people on the planet make such stupid decisions?  A few years back an alarming number of MIT kids were drinking themselves to death.  Now we&#039;ve got one who is so clueless that she almost got gunned down for failing to realize that her sweatshirt, deliberately made to look like a bomb, would not go over well at the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not heard about, as my dad put it, the dip from MIT who walked into Logan airport with a fake bomb. So apparently she&#039;s both an electrical engineering student as well as an &#034;artist&#034; who wanted to &#034;stand out on career day.&#034; Thoughts: Ok, she&#039;s an idiot. That&#039;s obvious. Anybody who walks into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}