It's all in the game.

Exactly what tviander said.

Begbie you can't be serious. Have you ever read The New Yorker? Have you ever been to New York City for that matter?

Please no avatars! Please.

I'm sure this is interesting but the way you have it transcribed here makes it really hard to read.

Shades of Phineas Gage.

Being that this took place at Logan Airport I doubt the Boston Police had anything to do with it. More likely it was the Massachusetts State Police that did the gun pointing. Certainly the guy holding up the sweatshirt in the pictures is a statey. But hey, it's more fun to recall all BPDs mistakes. By the way, do people here believe that police in any other airport in the country would have reacted differently?

Despite what people are saying here not everyone knows what a beadboard is when the see one. From the pictures I've seen it's easy to interprete as a chunk of explosives, or a housing for explosives. And those of you who are calling the police idiots, what would you have preferred they do? Ignore her? #33 has it dead right, and made his point much more eloquently than I, I might add.

Funny. My boss and I fly in and out of Rapid City with what are basically homemade electronics (for bio-medical research) all the time. I've had my bag searched but never been hassled like this poor guy.