On Sep 22, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Who would be denying that, even if it wasn't there? F

Her friends.  Did you look at the link I provided?

>
> Suspicious is fine, but arrest?

I think once you call out the goons with the submachine guns,
arrest is pretty inevitable.  She was released on $750 bond,
which seems rather reasonable, given the rest of the overreaction.

In fact, I found the press conference (on CNN:
http://tinyurl.com/2dsout or
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/21/ 
sot.ma.airport.bomb.hoax.whdh )
to be rather ... mild and reasonable, in terms of not "demonizing"
student in question.  A sort of "we were suspicious and acted
accordingly.  We were wrong and we'll be really pissed off if we
were intentionally fooled."  I mean, they even managed to figure
out that the shirt was NOT dangerous without having EOD "detonating"
it.  Clearly at some point SOMEONE recognized it for what it was.
(and the CNN video has pictures, so all us EE types can laugh
while the normal folk go "yes, that does look suspicious."

BillW
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