Logan hijinks
On one hand, the kid is clearly a dumbass. On the other, I've had some pretty idiotic experiences with the TSA myself, so I can relate to that sense of frustration.
What I take particular issue with is Suffolk County DA spokesman David Procopio's misrepresentation of what happened. He called Socha's action "Putting a false bomb threat in your luggage," and that's not what it was. It was a teenage boy taunting TSA searchers to not finding one. And given that TSA reps have, in the past, stuck their OWN snarky notes in people's luggage when they've found things they don't like, the adage about people in glass houses pops to mind.
As Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing, "If our national security depends on teenagers abstaining from foolishness, we are doomed."
So, the kid exercised poor judgment by sticking a note in his luggage. And the TSA exercised poor judgment by overreacting to it. And now it's a public issue that everyone else can overreact to.
I believe this is what game theorists refer to as a "zero sum game."