The Clock Ticks (Ahmed Mohamed's clock bomb)

[musterion]

While I do agree to point, let me ask you (and everyone else for that matter), do you think he should have been detained like he was? What would you have done differently (if anything)?

A littler kid was taken to the office for biting a pop tart into something a hysterical lib said resembled a gun. Others for bringing obviously toy weapons. Boils down to school/BOE policy. Not defending it, just reporting it cuz it renders your question moot.

 

[Angel4Truth]

While I do agree to point, let me ask you (and everyone else for that matter), do you think he should have been detained like he was?

yes, bomb hoaxes are against the law too, and if you mean what happened by the school, yes also, he violated school policy, and another teacher told him not to show it to anyone else and he kept on doing it.

What would you have done differently (if anything)?

Wont be able to answer that, untill if and when we know the full facts, the parents are making it so no one can say stating their son is a minor, so we dont get to hear the other side.

 

[bybee]

While I do agree to point, let me ask you (and everyone else for that matter), do you think he should have been detained like he was? What would you have done differently (if anything)?

If we didn't live in a rabidly politically correct world wherein the slightest off sides word or deed is dissected, resected and severely castigated by any number of arm chair quarterbacks this would be a minor incident handled by the principal with minor punishment incurred.

 

[musterion]

Great minds!

 

[StanJ]

Here's what Ahmed brought to school;

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

Here's what a bomb clock looks like;

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-en8obL_FK..._tYiqtIU/s1600/Defusable+Bomb+Alarm+Clock.jpg

Apparently this English teacher needs to get out more?

 

[WizardofOz]

How about a suitcase bomb? Find a pic of one of those...

Spoiler

 

[Nathon Detroit]

Here's what Ahmed brought to school;

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

Here's what a bomb clock looks like;

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-en8obL_FK..._tYiqtIU/s1600/Defusable+Bomb+Alarm+Clock.jpg

Apparently this English teacher needs to get out more?

Stan with all due respect maybe you need to get out more.

Ahmed's "clock" looked very much like a suitcase bomb.

 

[Quetzal]

If we didn't live in a rabidly politically correct world wherein the slightest off sides word or deed is dissected, resected and severely castigated by any number of arm chair quarterbacks this would be a minor incident handled by the principal with minor punishment incurred.

Media certainly didn't help.

 

[Quetzal]

yes, bomb hoaxes are against the law too

Hmm, but what it an intentional bomb hoax? I mean, we may never know his "true intentions". In fact, I know Knight linked to an article talking about that.

Wont be able to answer that, untill if and when we know the full facts, the parents are making it so no one can say stating their son is a minor, so we dont get to hear the other side.

Is there still a gag order on the school staff?

 

[WizardofOz]

And this happens to a 7-year-old. Where's the outrage? Why wasn't he invited to the White House?

 

[Quetzal]

And this happens to a 7-year-old. Where's the outrage? Why wasn't he invited to the White House?

Wait, it this a joke? Or did this actually happen?

 

[Angel4Truth]

And this happens to a 7-year-old. Where's the outrage? Why wasn't he invited to the White House?

Hes not black, or muslim. Yeah i said it.

 

[WizardofOz]

Wait, it this a joke? Or did this actually happen?

story

 

[Quetzal]

story

Wow, looks like something written for the Onion. (For those not familiar, The Onion is a satire news site. Good for some yuks.)

 

[fool]

I'm glad they erred on the side of caution. This kid never should hav brought this to school in the first place without prior permission.

But they didn't.
They treated it like a clock not a bomb so they're wrong both ways.
As wrong as they could possibly get.

 

[fool]

Stan with all due respect maybe you need to get out more.

Ahmed's "clock" looked very much like a suitcase bomb.

OK, then, why didn't they call the bomb squad?

 

[Nathon Detroit]

OK, then, why didn't they call the bomb squad?

Nobody knows what happened.

My guess is they considered it. But we are talking about public school here so they are kinda dumb.

 

[Stripe]

OK, then, why didn't they call the bomb squad?

Schools boot people out for wearing nonconformist T-shirts. This school probably figured the device was something benign and acted according to such a policy, which always gets you in trouble when the lawmakers figure out that their regulations have been used in a way they figure they can make a political buck out of.

 

[Stripe]

Dupe

 

[steko]

Ha! The latest is that he didn't build the clock at all but took apart a ancient Radio Shack clock and used the innerds.