So he didn't want to scare people. Uh...okay.
The Clock Ticks (Ahmed Mohamed's clock bomb)
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So he didn't want to scare people. Uh...okay.
In a youtube video he made, speaking:
https://youtu.be/3mW4w0Y1OXE
He also first showed it to an engineering teacher, who informed him what it looked like also, and told the kid not to show it around to anyone else, and low and behold, he kept showing it off anyway.
He showed it to an english teacher, who called the police.
Clearly he knew what people thought.
Quetzal
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I feel like this could have been avoided with a little bit of planning. There was a kid in my high school who wanted to show a display sword since we were studying King Arthur legends. He asked the teacher and she said it was against school policy. However, the teacher asked the resource officer and he was cool with it so long as he brought it in a case/sheath, was inspected before it was brought into the building, and was escorted out once the lecture for the day was over.
Maybe Ahmed didn't think about it that far ahead, but it would have saved him a lot of trouble.
yep and his daddy is a news hungry muslim activist, this was a set up.
Yeah, imagine that: He acted his age but somehow didn't plan on every single contingency like the little jihadist in training he clearly is. These terrorist tots are just baffling.:think:
Quetzal
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You know that is not what I meant. What I am saying is if he did have genuine reservations about possible misunderstandings, he should have told someone.
And tell them what? That it was a clock? Because that's. What. He. Did.
And he didnt even make that clock, he reassembled an old clock in a new way, how scientific
Theres a great need for clocks that look like bombs...
Quetzal
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I suppose my idea was that this would be a discussion that should happen before be brought it in.
Which did happen after it was brought in (not for any homework, just a look at what i did session, and was immediately told NOT to show it to anyone else, and he kept doing it anyway, till another teacher called police)
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
riiiight
he carried around a "clock" that he knew looked like a bomb and when questioned about why he was carrying around something that looked like a bomb, answered "it's a clock"
and the school officials were supposed to do what? Take him at his word?
ahmed's "clock":
most people's idea of a clock:
most people's idea of a terrorist bomb:
So he should've pointed the obvious out to the faculty--most of whom, to be fair, actually recognized the clock for what it was--counting on their collective ignorance to potentially foul the whole situation up.
I think that's known as the tyranny of low expectations.
Quetzal
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Like it or not, we are in a very "jumpy" or "scared" state of mind. It is what it is. We can't go a few weeks without a school system making the news about a misunderstanding. Hindsight is 20/20, right? Given how it played out my immediate thought is that a simple request "Hey, I built a clock using a pencil case and a battery, can I bring it in tomorrow?" might have avoided it. This is not a illogical train of thought, I don't think.
What other similar misunderstandings do you have in mind?
Quetzal
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I don't have one, but it isn't uncommon to see schools shut down for what they believe to be threats but turn out to be false alarms.
No doubt whatever he has in mind you shall tear it to shreds?
Keeping in mind that he is a liberal but not liberal enough?
Quetzal
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This is part of the critical process. I present an idea, he points out the weak points, I adjust my argument, he presents a counter argument; etc. No hurt feelings here.
It was in an old pencil box and he didn't KNOW it looked like a bomb doser, that's your assertion. The school ENGLISH teacher should have reacted less and used his brain or got another teacher who KNOWS electronics to look at it. Yes I think his own teacher should have known him well enough to take him at his word, of course to a lot of them it is only a job and they feign interest when they actually don't have any. I found most teachers were power trippers, not only in my day but also when my kids went to school. I don't think much has changed.