MIT's non-bomber: mystery of the Play-Doh revealed!

[pnwmom]

Star had shaped a lump of play-doh into a rose, to give to the boyfriend she was picking up at the airport.
If you know any MIT students, that sounds entirely believble.

Time to drop the damn charges.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N41/simpson.html

Simpson had five to six ounces of Play-Doh in her hands, State Police Maj. Scott Pare said in a press conference Friday morning before the arraignment. The Play-Doh, or putty, may have been mistaken for plastic explosives. The putty was a “very small amount in the shape of a rose,” Simpson’s current attorney Tom Dwyer said yesterday. Simpson intended to give the rose to her boyfriend, Dwyer said.

Wark said that there was no mention of the putty in the police reports used to file the charges.