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The 'bomb'
Looks like a bomb to me, watching all the seasons of 24 has taught me well.
Timer - check
Circuit board - check
Lots of wires - check
dodgy enclosure - check
14 year old arrested for bringing in homemade clock
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Looks like a bomb to me, watching all the seasons of 24 has taught me well.
Timer - check
Circuit board - check
Lots of wires - check
dodgy enclosure - check
Obamas aide more like, but it would be hilarious if they didnt check it before going into the oval office... basically a free pass to lop off the president ( If it could be jury rigged obviously).
Same attitude the police had, absolutely no tact whatsoever.
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If they thought it was a bomb surely the bomb squad would have been on scene.
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I can already see a load of people resigning over this.
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It looks very much like how Hollywood portrays briefcase bombs in movies and TV shows.
Oddly enough, the majority of teachers and police officers are not EOD experts.
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Because he's knowingly built something that looks not unlike a bomb and brought it into school?
That's not what bombs look like.
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I would have thought this too, evacuated to a 6 block radius and the bomb squad making it safe before anymore civilians touched the "device".
Something smells a little fishy
Without knowing all the details, perhaps they believed he was trying to pull a prank - dodgy looking clock mounted in a briefcase?! Given his apparent intelligence I'm surprised he didn't realise what his technology project might look like to some. So perhaps his suspension was punishment for this prank? I'm guessing looking at it he was trying to pull a prank and its blown up in his face (excuse the pun) so he backs tracks and claims no prank!
Reminds me on the idiot a few years back while checking through an American airport thought it would be funny to say 'be careful with my rucksack, it's got 3 bombs in it!'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3412123.stm
From what I can make out the response in this case wouldn't have helped.
They let him go on with classes before the police arrived.
I'm not sure what world letting someone you think has a bomb or bomb like device continue with classes until the police arrive would be good (after you've already confronted them), I would expect if they thought it was a bomb or similar for them to do the "evacuate the building and keep everyone away from the suspect device" routine that most organisations tend to have when there is a suspicious device.
But then the whole thing sounds very much like a stupid over reaction and covering of posteriors when they realised what had really happened..
Something that probably happens on a regular basis in IT and practical classes all across the country.
We were doing "choose your own" projects back when I was in school and things like clocks were fairly common,
It seems that by their description pretty much anything you made in IT that had a circuit board or clock face would count as a "bomb like device" (a lovely vague description), and very hard if not impossible to prove that it wasn't meant to be taken that way.
A home made temperature probe and display for a computer would count as such (digital display, wires, probably a box to house it and let it fit into the front of the computer case neatly), and IIRC going back about 10-15 years people on these boards were making them on a regular basis as ready built ones were rare/expensive and typically had to be imported (I had a go using parts from maplins, including a relay to start fans when the temp reached a set limit).
