Heck even Richard Dawkins aint buying this one.
Ahmed Mohamed's clock bomb
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Option #4: Wallow in your ignorance.
I have to admit, the Muzzie barbarians waited a bit long when it came to teaching a 14 year old the "tricks of the Islamic trade", they usually get to them at a much younger age.
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This Charming Manc
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If the clock had large lumps of plastic material attacked to it they would have had a fair point, bombs need an explosive element.
An electronic clock and a bomb timer are very similar devices, so to get the two mistook is an easy thing to do, but the difference is the explosives, clocks don't have explosives attached to them, I would hope a teacher has that level of base intellect.
I think if the teachers had seriously thought it was a bomb they should have acted very differently.
I think if this kid had been white and non muslim, the american right would be arguing for the kid and against the evil commie teachers right now, chrys would blaming the unions as well.
An electronic clock and a bomb timer are very similar devices, so to get the two mistook is an easy thing to do, but the difference is the explosives, clocks don't have explosives attached to them, I would hope a teacher has that level of base intellect.
I think if the teachers had seriously thought it was a bomb they should have acted very differently.
I think if this kid had been white and non muslim, the american right would be arguing for the kid and against the evil commie teachers right now, chrys would blaming the unions as well.
Quetzal
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No better time to come out of retirement I guess...
I am as liberal as they come and when I look at the clock he made, I can see where they might believe it is something malicious. Now, with that said, I believe that it was blown out of proportion. He should not have been detained and I believe the following day everything would have gone back to normal. However, the media decided to have a field day and pad their viewer numbers.
A serious discussion would need to be had why something like this is dangerous. If someone is presented with a metal looking case with a bunch of wires coming out of it with a big red digital display, it can be reasonably expected that someone might think it is something bad. I believe the teacher needed to act on the side of caution, that is their responsibility, after all.
Just my two cents.
I am as liberal as they come and when I look at the clock he made, I can see where they might believe it is something malicious. Now, with that said, I believe that it was blown out of proportion. He should not have been detained and I believe the following day everything would have gone back to normal. However, the media decided to have a field day and pad their viewer numbers.
A serious discussion would need to be had why something like this is dangerous. If someone is presented with a metal looking case with a bunch of wires coming out of it with a big red digital display, it can be reasonably expected that someone might think it is something bad. I believe the teacher needed to act on the side of caution, that is their responsibility, after all.
Just my two cents.
Apparently you haven't seen any suitcase bombs. You don't necessarily see any explosives in a suitcase bomb (as evidenced by my previous attachment).
Furthermore.... it's not very likely that most public school teachers are trained at knowing what a real suitcase bomb looks like.
I completely agree.
Speaking of clocks, This Charming Manc is getting his cleaned today.
School teachers are not trained to separate a real bomb from a fake. I still smell a great big stinking pile of malarky with this story.
HisServant
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The gag order needs to be lifted off of the school administration and teachers before I have any opinion on this.
Took an old clock apart and pasted the pieces in a briefcase.
Ooooo, ahhhhh, wow!
The first response should have been to evacuate the school and call 911.
I am going to close this thread since there is already one in progress. I am also going to remake the other thread so it's more descriptive.
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