Mar 28, 2008 7:15 am US/Eastern
Student's Electronics Project Sparks Subway Scare
NEW YORK (AP) ―
A college student says he's sorry for causing a scare when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack on a subway train in Brooklyn.
Gregory Kats says the device was just a model of an elevator's inner workings. But it frightened riders on a B train near the Seventh Avenue stop on Thursday. Kats says he tried to reassure his fellow passengers that it was a school project—not a bomb—but people scrambled for the exits nonetheless.
Police responded, but Kats wasn't arrested.
The 29-year-old Kats says he's a computer engineering student at the New York City College of Technology. He says he'll keep his electronics projects at home from now on.
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