--On Saturday, some alleged whack-job trying to get a piece of Star Simpson glory told an AirTran employee at Logan Airport, "I'm with al-Qaeda. I'm with them and I'm here to blow up things." Hardy har. Those words earned 27-year-old Ermiyas Asfaw, from DC, a one-way trip to jail.

Attention, world: You may be able to do whatever you want in other cities, but Boston is sensitive. We may not agree with their hypersensitivity, but don't say we didn't warn you.

--The Natick Collection may be an upscale mall, but that's not going to stop people from wigging out there. Yesterday afternoon, according to the MetroWest Daily News, a woman told a clerk at Victoria's Secret that she was going to cut the clerk into pieces.

The clerk thought that the woman may have been shoplifting and did the whole "Can I help you?" (Subliminal message: Put the bra back!) routine, and the shopper served up the threat. But the woman was long gone by the time police got there because the clerk called the Vickie's home office for instructions. We're not sure what instructions would be required. If someone threatened to cut you "into pieces," would you have to call your boss before calling police?

--A man was arrested for driving off after striking a pedestrian at the intersection of Morrissey Boulevard and Victory Road early Sunday morning. Bobby Renteria, 22, of Dedham, tried to abandon his station wagon, which had a smashed front windshield, but he later went to an officer and 'fessed up. The pedestrian's injuries were non-life-threatening. Also on the Blotter: Police arrested a man wielding a knife downtown.

--A woman reported that she was raped in a bathroom in Warren Towers on the Boston University campus early Sunday morning. The attacker is described as a white man with shoulder-length brown hair.

--A lab explosion at Boston College prompted an evacuation yesterday and sent a grad student to the hospital. The BC Heights called the explosion in Higgins Hall "minor," but the evacuation happened because officials thought there might be a chemical leak.

--Uh-oh. Looks like Northeastern might have a rival when it comes to collegiate Blotter supremacy. Somerville is angry with the behavior of Tufts fraternity ATO. Alderman Bob Trane said that residents were sick and tired of the "drinking, urinating in public, and vomiting on people's doorsteps." (Subliminal message to ATO: Vomit on your own damn doorsteps!) Another Alderman suggested that Tufts chip in on paying the local police.