Police nearly shoot girl at Boston today for Electronic Device

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09-27-2007, 02:09 PM

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Slice

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Originally Posted by FlyerJosh

Moose,

After seeing the picture, I tend to agree. While there needs to be some common sense (on both parties), I don't exactly see what she was wearing as threatening. My question is, how would have people reacted if the board and battery were on the inside of the jacket and only the lights (star) showed?

Note to self... don't wear my blinking red nosed rudolph christmas tie to the airport any more!

Put yourself in the cops frame of mind. Someone calls in a threat you show up and see wires and a battery from who knows how far away. My guess is they didn't walk right up to her thinking she had a bomb strapped to her body. Take a picture of that 'art' from 50 feet away and see if it looks the same. They should be commended for not capping her ass.

09-27-2007, 03:57 PM

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8-capt

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need to cull the herd to get rid of the bad genes!

09-27-2007, 04:12 PM

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FlyerJosh

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Originally Posted by Slice

I'm not disagreeing, but I do think that perhaps after they had some words with her about common sense, something less serious than class 1 misdemeanor charges could have been filed. At the end of the day, it really wasn't a hoax device, nor did she intend it to be a threat. Creating a fake bomb and terrorizing people with it is completely different from wiring some lights to a shirt and wearing it ignorantly.

09-27-2007, 05:06 PM

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wow... this is just nuts...

theres already 8 pages to the forum.. i definitely missed this... but i passed through the 7 other pages and read stuff about johnny quail hunting before school, Why did we invade Iraq... A German guy who owns a chocolate shop with David Hasselhoff posters...

I'm really really amused at how far we can chase rabbits... hahaha