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NEW YORK - A college student has apologized for causing a scare on a New York city subway train when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack.
Gregory Kats, 29, 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.
The box he was holding had a small battery, wires and a motor.
Kats, who was questioned by police and later released, says next time he'll be much more careful and keep his electronic projects at home.