Art Student Admits Planting Boxes In Subway Station http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=26573
An art student has confessed to planting dozens of suspicious boxes that led to the evacuation of the Union Square subway station last week,. Clinton Boisvert, 25, a student at the School of Visual Arts, turned himself in to the Manhattan district attorney's office Monday. He admitted he placed the 38 black boxes, labeled with the word "fear," around the busy station last Wednesday. Boisvert said the stunt was part of a assignemnt to study reactions to art in public places. His lawyer said it was "an innocent art project gone awry." Police evacuated the subway station and trains skipped the stop for about five hours as the bomb squad investigated the boxes, which were attached to walls, benches and floors. The boxes, some painted black and others wrapped in electrical tape, were determined to be empty and the station was reopened. Boisvert was charged with aggravated harassment and reckless endangerment.
