14 year old arrested for bringing in homemade clock
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The kid now has a truck load of money coming his way, most likely an MIT scholarship, a tour of the White House, meet the President, a show with Chris Hadfield, will probably get his name on a plaque put into Space thanks to that and numerous other stuff.
And all the while the school teachers and head master looking more and more like mugs.
Fair one!
And all the while the school teachers and head master looking more and more like mugs.
Fair one!
lol if you think that "he's called Mohammed and he's brown" should feature anywhere on the list of assessing whether a school kid with an electronics project is a risk or not.
I'm amazed that once it had been verified that this item that had been left in a school office for the best part of a day wasn't in fact a bomb, but was a functional clock, that the decision was taken not to apologise and try and smooth the incident out, but to double-down on stupid and suspend the kid. Maybe amazed is the wrong word, it is Texas after all. Despair maybe?
Kids getting tonnes of offers to him now, Whitehouse with Obama, Google, Nasa Mars Rover, Facebook.
I imagine his family will get a pretty pay out from the state too for the Islamophobia. ****** ordeal to put him through but i get the impression the kids going to come out WAY on top. Good on him.
I imagine his family will get a pretty pay out from the state too for the Islamophobia. ****** ordeal to put him through but i get the impression the kids going to come out WAY on top. Good on him.
You mean he built something with wires?
Sory kids, DT has now been removed from the curriculum as your designs could be mistaken as a bomb. Food tech for all of you instead!
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The 'bomb'
tbh i'd have run a ****** mile.
Hello my name is Ahmed, would you like to see my "home made clock" , I dont think so.
Seriously though if it was a bomb and the teacher did nothing "oh I thought it was a home made clock" you'd all be berating her for being stupid.
You would have to be pretty dim to see explosives in that case, of which it's blindingly obvious there are none.
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I'd call letting the child back into class and not calling the bomb squad doing nothing.
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The whole thing was handled very poorly. Shouldn't have been accused in the first place.
Whilst I'm an engineer and have a rough idea about various things, I can say that if someone (anyone) waved that at me I'd be a bit concerned. You can't spend minutes analysing something close up and conclude it may or may not be dangerous when (according to the movies at least) it looks like something that could go pop in your face at first glance, and your initial reaction would (probably should) be to assume the worst and hopefully end up with the best, not the other way round.
However, confiscating it and not really doing anything about it is pretty silly.
However, confiscating it and not really doing anything about it is pretty silly.
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I think it looks very suspect- I would be wondering what it was if that was brought in to school when I was at school!
I think it is slightly hypocritical of the White House to be saying "its a cool clock, bring it in to show us"- if he had turned up at twh without prior warning (basically what happened at the school) with that thing in a suitcase the whole joint would be under lockdown and he'd be on the floor or shot in seconds!
Big over reaction from the school though- asking the kid to immediately disassemble it and a few quiet words with the head and a friendly police officer would have been alright...
I think it is slightly hypocritical of the White House to be saying "its a cool clock, bring it in to show us"- if he had turned up at twh without prior warning (basically what happened at the school) with that thing in a suitcase the whole joint would be under lockdown and he'd be on the floor or shot in seconds!
Big over reaction from the school though- asking the kid to immediately disassemble it and a few quiet words with the head and a friendly police officer would have been alright...
Are you serious?
Concealed in the lining perhaps? Teacher saw the electrical workings of what to her looked like a bomb and that was most likely enough. Which is probably the same for the vast majority of folks, as opposed to the bomb squad specialists here on GD.
I still think he was trying to be a smart ass and its went wrong (although the media hype seems to have set him up for some nice kick backs) and maybe that is why the school handled it the way they did. Would explain them holding on to it and not evacuating the school.
They initially suspect a bomb, after a minor heart attack by his teacher its discovered to be a clock. They have a chat and decide he's tried to be a smart ass and thus suspend him.
All guess work on my part of course but just trying to find logic in the schools actions.
So the teacher immediately called the bomb squad and the school was evacuated?
That's the usual response to someone suspecting it was a bomb.
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I remember in high school I made a baby monitor it was so rubbish that it only worked when you yelled at it. So Ahmed's clock is rubbish compared to what I created. Digital clock in a brief case what a stupid idea. I'd arrest him for crimes against innovation.
To completely lose the plot like this simply exposes the intensity of the mind control these teachers, and everybody else, are subjected to constantly.
Not only that, this media article, and many others, simply publicise terrible ideas to potential terrorists.
Furthermore this media article imposes a feeling of "worry" on an extremely large number of students. I know many engineering students who carry devices to and fro university. Seeing a kid getting done for something like this is going to force innocent people to worry more, putting more people in the ideal state for further mind control.
Not only that, this media article, and many others, simply publicise terrible ideas to potential terrorists.
Furthermore this media article imposes a feeling of "worry" on an extremely large number of students. I know many engineering students who carry devices to and fro university. Seeing a kid getting done for something like this is going to force innocent people to worry more, putting more people in the ideal state for further mind control.
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