“The employee asked about the plastic circuit board on her chest, and Simpson walked away without responding, Pare said” seems pretty clear. Does some other report contradict it?
"A Massachusetts Port Authority staffer manning an information booth in the terminal became suspicious when Simpson -- wearing the device -- approached to ask about an incoming flight, Pare said. She did not respond when the employee asked her about the device she was wearing, so the employee repeated the question, police said.
Simpson then said the device was artwork and left the counter and walked around the terminal area, causing some employees to leave the building in fear, police said."
...even if the latter article is the correct one, I think it's still perfectly reasonable to identify the device as described and depicted as a possible bomb.
Me too really, and I defo vote "idiot", but you did ask for contraditions.
Personally I think it was absolutely reasonable for an untrained member of staff on a counter to be worried about it and to call the trained guys. And it sounds like they did their job and quickly identified it as safe. I think prosecuting her for a hoax seems a bit much perhaps, but she probably did just cost the airport a lot of money and scared a lot of people, even if it was unintentional.
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Date: 2007-09-24 09:31 am (UTC)http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html
Date: 2007-09-24 09:42 am (UTC)Simpson then said the device was artwork and left the counter and walked around the terminal area, causing some employees to leave the building in fear, police said."
Re: http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html
Date: 2007-09-24 10:06 am (UTC)Re: http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html
Date: 2007-09-24 10:12 am (UTC)Re: http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_264104114.html
Date: 2007-09-24 10:25 am (UTC)Personally I think it was absolutely reasonable for an untrained member of staff on a counter to be worried about it and to call the trained guys. And it sounds like they did their job and quickly identified it as safe. I think prosecuting her for a hoax seems a bit much perhaps, but she probably did just cost the airport a lot of money and scared a lot of people, even if it was unintentional.