14 year old arrested for bringing in homemade clock

Twirlywoos · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:32

He should set up a Youtube channel and watch the donations, technological gifts, scholarships come flooding in as people donate for anything lately.

The Geezer · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:34

Greebo said:
He's clearly not. But until you know that you can see the reasons behind the conservative approach the teachers took.

And yes you need a chassis but a briefcase is not the brightest thing to choose.

He's a child he'll use whatever he can get his hands on, a couple of reports state the family are not well off which will have a bearing on what items he used

asim18 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:35

Greebo said:
He's clearly not. But until you know that you can see the reasons behind the conservative approach the teachers took.

And yes you need a chassis but a briefcase is not the brightest thing to choose.

Really? Tell that to thousands of engineering students who use things like this to build their projects in.

My friend who was an engineering student used to carry his "looks like a bomb to an idiot" ADC converter project to and from uni all the time.

It's an absolutely dreadful state of affairs when people are ignorant as well as under the stresses of mind control.

Greebo · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:38

asim18 said:
Really? Tell that to thousands of engineering students who use things like this to build their projects in.

My friend who was an engineering student used to carry his "looks like a bomb to an idiot" project to and from uni all the time.

It's an absolutely dreadful state of affairs when people are ignorant as well as under the stresses of mind control.

Come on its a different world now. When i was a kid i went to a fancy dress party as a arab with dynamite strapped round me.

You cant go around walking with things that looks like a bomb to the general public now and not expect that somebody will ring the police.

mrk · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:39

OhEsEcks · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:39

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BOI!

Tunney · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:42

nvm, this thread is already too dumb.

Amp34 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:42

Strife212 said:
The reaction by the school and police was ridiculous and terrible, but it does look pretty similar to a real IED.

I hear they have alarms and big count down timers too.

Because in real life you want to draw attention to the bomb AND let everyone know just how much time they have left. That way they can disarm it with one second left and keep the suspense going!

Amp34 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:44

Greebo said:
Kid makes a circuit board, digital display and fits it all inside a briefcase, perhapos with the timer showing on the outside and it beeps?

I suspect he was trying to be smart and did make a pretend looking bomb. Of course hes only saying it was a clock he built and took into school now the **** has hit the fan.

I thought he showed it to an engineering teacher before the incident saying it was a clock he had made.

Doesn't sound like he intended it to be a pretend bomb. But then I'll always give people the benefit of the doubt rather than string them up when there isn't enough evidence either way.

OhEsEcks · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:45

Amp34 said:
I hear they have alarms and big count down timers too.

asim18 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:45

Greebo said:
Come on its a different world now. When i was a kid i went to a fancy dress party as a arab with dynamite strapped round me.

You cant go around walking with things that looks like a bomb to the general public now and not expect that somebody will ring the police.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying. People are under increasing levels of mind control these days and these teachers weren't able to think for themselves or demonstrate any rationality in their train of thought/actions.

When you went dressed as an arab someone must have thought "That's not real dynamite" right? Now people won't think that.

You going to a fancy dress party in fancy dress is the same thing as showing a teacher a project. Neither situation was ever actually meant to be a bomb nor to make people think you're actually a terrorist.

Greebo · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:48

Amp34 said:
I thought he showed it to an engineering teacher before the incident saying it was a clock he had made.

Doesn't sound like he intended it to be a pretend bomb. But then I'll always give people the benefit of the doubt rather than string them up when there isn't enough evidence either way.

No i do think even his engineering teacher thought he had mad it to look like a bomb as he told him "to keep it hidden and not let anybody else see it". If it was just a clock and looked just like a clock why would his engineering teacher tell him to keep it hidden and not show anybody else it?

two more teachers seeing it and reporting it at least warranted the calling fo the police.

I do think things got silly after that and over reaction once it became clear it wasnt a bomb.

Greebo · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:49

asim18 said:
Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying. People are under increasing levels of mind control these days and these teachers weren't able to think for themselves or have any rational train of thought.

When you went dressed as an arab someone must have thought "That's not real dynamite" right? Now people won't think that.

You going to a fancy dress party in fancy dress is the same thing as showing a teacher a project. Neither situation was ever actually meant to be a bomb nor to make people think you're actually a terrorist.

Not mind control but just a different world. Back then people would just assume it was a ll pretend and a laugh. Now they will assume it might be real.

You can call it mind control but a lot of western countries are on high alert and anything suspicious should be reported.

asim18 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:50

Greebo said:
No i do think even his engineering teacher thought he had mad it to look like a bomb as he told him "to keep it hidden and not let anybody else see it". If it was just a clock and looked just like a clock why would his engineering teacher tell him to keep it hidden and not show anybody else it?

That's the nature of a project though. It's never going to look like what it's supposed to look like. An engineered clock is never going to look like a clock you buy in the shop. 80% of all home-brew engineering is going to look the same to most people who are ignorant. And they will therefore refuse to do any further inspection or research to ascertain the person's motives, as well as try to understand the physical components of the item, because they are, ignorant.

Amp34 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:51

Greebo said:
He's clearly not. But until you know that you can see the reasons behind the conservative approach the teachers took.

And yes you need a chassis but a briefcase is not the brightest thing to choose.

It's a pretty good thing to chose if you want to carry it into school to show your engineering teacher.

I guess because he may be a Muslim he should have made a Perspex chassis so everyone could inspect every part of it to make sure he wasn't going to blow everyone up. You know, he may have a bomb in that home made clock...

Alternatively the white student next to him may have a machine gun and 500 rounds of ammunition in his backpack, which given history is probably fairly likely. There seems to be one school shooting every year in the U.S.

That said if the clock was so bomb like how did it get last security at the front door? I assume the school has metal detectors and such like, I thought they were everywhere?

Greebo · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:54

Amp34 said:
It's a pretty good thing to chose if you want to carry it into school to show your engineering teacher.

I guess because he may be a Muslim he should have made a Perspex chassis so everyone could inspect every part of it to make sure he wasn't going to blow everyone up. You know, he may have a bomb in that home made clock...

Alternatively the white student next to him may have a machine gun and 500 rounds of ammunition in his backpack, which given history is probably fairly likely. There seems to be one school shooting every year in the U.S.

That said if the clock was so bomb like how did it get last security at the front door? I assume the school has metal detectors and such like, I thought they were everywhere?

Yes its a sad world and yes im sure been a muslim has been a factor in this whole affair.

No idea why it wasnt stopped at the gates.

But again, if he had made a replica gun for an engineering project and brought it into school, would we be having this conversation?

asim18 · 16 Sep 2015 at 23:57

Greebo said:
But again, if he had made a replica gun for an engineering project and brought it into school, would we be having this conversation?

Again, you've created a completely different scenario.

A replica gun is a replica gun. Is it not? :confused:

Is the replica gun going to have a clock and wires in it so you can call bombsquad for a "Gun that looks like a bomb" or something?

Imagine an emergency call centre getting a call in with someone yelling "This dude has a bomb that looks like a gun!!!"

But anyway all this charade is simply to fill the Minerva initiative's billion dollar mainframe supercomputers with data. Basically all internet discussion featuring "bomb", "teacher", as well as other key words is being analysed to get an understanding of people's stances on the matter and pave the way for more effective mind control techniques and ultimately population control measures.

dowie · 17 Sep 2015 at 00:10

Muslim in Texas.... can see that being an interesting combination

that school now has massive amounts of egg on their faces... both President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg have reached out to the kid to invite him to the White House/facebook HQ...

BlackBat · 17 Sep 2015 at 00:11

Reminds me of the time part of Hanley was cordoned off because one of the salesmen (who used to work for a different part of the same company I used to), left his briefcase in the stairwell behind the Army/Navy recruitment centre, whilst he nipped back to his office because he'd forgotten something. No being led away by the police or handcuffs involved, just a rollicking from the police and a lot of mickey taking from everyone for a week or so.
This was many years ago though, when the IRA still liked to leave bombs around. I guess it was lucky for him he didn't have an Irish accent.

spudbynight · 17 Sep 2015 at 00:11

I'm puzzled. If it had been a bomb, should a teacher have poked around it to check? Do teachers get trained in bomb disposal these days?