Teen creates clock, shows teacher who think it's a bomb, teen gets arrested

[SheHateMe]

"Tell us how the bomb works, kid"

"It's just a clock!"

"How does it work?"

"It tells time!"

"How does the bomb work...?"

 

[Pipeline 1010]

Who would you have blamed if it had been a bomb and gone off?

The boy who made the bomb sounds like a good blame candidate.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

And it could have been worse, he could have bitten a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.

Who would you have blamed when he shot someone with that Pop-Tart?

 

[waggy]

"Tell us how the bomb works, kid"

"It's just a clock!"

"How does it work?"

"It tells time!"

"How does the bomb work...?"

LOL

then they bitched all he would say is "it's a clock!"

 

[Newell Steamer]

Texas showed considerable restrain here, I was honestly expecting they would have gunned down this kid,... before they even saw the clock.

 

[1prophet]

Kinda funny, considering that in that neck of the woods (in neighboring Oklahoma), the largest terrorist attack prior to 9/11 was committed by a white, right-wing nut case.

Even funnier is how certain individuals only count terrorist attacks after 9/11, they should include that right-wing nut case Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma city and everything afterwards.

As for this kid it has nothing to do with him being Muslim, even though that probably doesn't help him any, but the zero tolerance mentality present in this country today.

Absolute rules can be defended, Common sense and rational judgement is a lot more difficult to defend in a court of law in a sue happy society.

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2. Sunscreen not allowed on field trip—kids might drink it
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3. Kindergarten cancels its year-end show to allow more time for college prep
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4. Teacher suspended on weapons charge for demonstrating carpentry tools
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5. School bus driver loses job for keeping kids warm when bus breaks down
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6. 79-year-old substitute teacher fired for having student-friends on Facebook
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7. Student suspended for slicing apple with knife during health food demonstration
Da'von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio, high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a "healthy eating" presentation. When he took out a knife to slice an apple, his teacher told him he was not allowed to use it. He immediately handed it over to her. Case closed? Nope. Later that day he was suspended for a week because he brought a weapon to school.


8. School goes on lockdown when mom fails to sign-in
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9. Girl in wet bathing suit forced to stand outside... in February... in Minnesota... due to school policy
After the fire alarm went off in Como Park High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, everyone evacuated, including Kayona Hagen-Tietza, 14, who had been swimming in the gym pool and didn't have time to change. School policy forbids teachers from having students in the car, so she stood outside, barefoot, for 10 minutes in 5-degree weather until a teacher obtained "permission" to let her sit in her car just this once.


10. Student suspended for twirling pencil, subjected to five-hour evaluation
Ethan Chaplin, 13, was twirling his pencil, which made the child sitting behind him feel "threatened or uncomfortable." That's all it took for the Vernon, New Jersey, school to send Chaplin for a 5-hour physical and psych evaluation. His urine was tested and blood drawn. “We never know what’s percolating in the mind of children, okay?" the superintendent, Charles Maranzano, said. "When they demonstrate behaviors that raise red flags, we must do our duty.”

 

[boomerang]

As for this kid it has nothing to do with him being Muslim, even though that probably doesn't help him any, but the zero tolerance mentality present in this country today.

Whoop, whoop! Somebody else gets it and was willing to take the time to provide articles to back it up. :thumbsup:

 

[trenchfoot]

Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and all of those other conservative fear and hate mongering talking heads that are making obscene profits from it:

GREAT JOB. :thumbsup:

 

[mizzou]

You know...this could be an ingenious plan. What if the kid actually brings the real bomb to Obama during the visit and splode's him? :sarcasm:

:sneaky:

 

[feralkid]

Going to be a hilarious lawsuit against the police there. And the school district.

"Hilarious" doesn't mean what you think it does.

 

[Darwin333]

yeah in one article the cop was upset that is all he would say. Well what else do you want him to say? IT's a fucking clock!

Total over reaction by the school calling the cops is slightly understandable. but suspension? way over reaction.

This should have ended when professionals looked at it (they did have professionals look right?). The kid said it was a clock. they admit it looked like a dismantled clock. yet they arrest him? and may charge him latter?

Are you kidding?!?! You saw his name and his picture, they are right here in this thread! It's obvious that the kid built a timer for a bomb and thought he could get his teachers to help perfect it so he could then build the bomb and blow up a Nascar event! He was even building his credibility by wearing a Nascar T-shirt!

I just bought my kid a Raspberry Pi kit to teach her electronics and hopefully get her interested in electronics and computers. Now I have to worry about her being arrested as a terrorist if she succeeds at building something as innocuous as a device that tells time. What kind of fucked up crazy ass twilight zone bullshit is this?

 

[spacejamz]

"Tell us how the bomb works, kid"

"It's just a clock!"

"How does it work?"

"It tells time!"

"How does the bomb work...?"

Jack Bauer would have made him talk....

 

[waggy]

Are you kidding?!?! You saw his name and his picture, they are right here in this thread! It's obvious that the kid built a timer for a bomb and thought he could get his teachers to help perfect it so he could then build the bomb and blow up a Nascar event! He was even building his credibility by wearing a Nascar T-shirt!

I just bought my kid a Raspberry Pi kit to teach her electronics and hopefully get her interested in electronics and computers. Now I have to worry about her being arrested as a terrorist if she succeeds at building something as innocuous as a device that tells time. What kind of fucked up crazy ass twilight zone bullshit is this?

I am not sure..but i think he had a NASA shirt...

 

[Darwin333]

Except rational heads should have prevailed once they knew it wasn't a bomb. The english teacher knew it wasn't a bomb. Every adult involved knew it wasn't a bomb. If they thought it was a bomb, the bomb squad would have been called.

That's a great point that I didn't think of. If the school wasn't evacuated then at no time did a single person in charge actually think it was a real bomb.

 

[waggy]

That's a great point that I didn't think of. If the school wasn't evacuated then at no time did a single person in charge actually think it was a real bomb.

nope. even the police admitted it looked like a dismantled clock..

 

[Darwin333]

10. Student suspended for twirling pencil, subjected to five-hour evaluation
Ethan Chaplin, 13, was twirling his pencil, which made the child sitting behind him feel "threatened or uncomfortable." That's all it took for the Vernon, New Jersey, school to send Chaplin for a 5-hour physical and psych evaluation. His urine was tested and blood drawn. “We never know what’s percolating in the mind of children, okay?" the superintendent, Charles Maranzano, said. "When they demonstrate behaviors that raise red flags, we must do our duty.”

Holy shit, they have the authority to do that???

 

[bozack]

I don't really care about this other than I find it somewhat ridiculous that both the white house and facebook invite this kid for a visit over the arrest and presumably because he is muslim teenager but why build the clock in a suitcase if that is in fact a picture of it?

 

[Darwin333]

I am not sure..but i think he had a NASA shirt...

Oh shit, that's even worse! He's going after NASA obviously for the secondary explosions from all the fuel they store there!!!!

 

[Triumph]

Hmm...

"Time, Newsweek, the Lifesavers, and the second time bomb from the right..."

 

[Darwin333]

I don't really care about this other than I find it somewhat ridiculous that both the white house and facebook invite this kid for a visit over the arrest and presumably because he is muslim teenager but why build the clock in a suitcase if that is in fact a picture of it?

Because he is a kid trying to show off his knowledge of electronics? I dunno, maybe?

 

[bozack]

Because he is a kid trying to show off his knowledge of electronics? I dunno, maybe?

what does knowledge of electronics have to do with building it in a suitcase.

Also I thought the article said the teacher thought it was something that resembled a bomb, honestly if what is pictured is in fact his clock I could kind of see it...reminds me of the device on the bottom of the bus in speed

whatever, who cares.

 

[Victorian Gray]

what does knowledge of electronics have to do with building it in a suitcase.

Also I thought the article said the teacher thought it was something that resembled a bomb, honestly if what is pictured is in fact his clock I could kind of see it...reminds me of the device on the bottom of the bus in speed

whatever, who cares.

You obviously do or you wouldn't have bothered to comment.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I don't really care about this other than I find it somewhat ridiculous that both the white house and facebook invite this kid for a visit over the arrest and presumably because he is muslim teenager but why build the clock in a suitcase if that is in fact a picture of it?

It's a pencil box. Not a suitcase. Look at the plug on the top right. It's no wider than a pencil length.

 

[CPA]

Who would you have blamed if it had been a bomb and gone off? The same people you're blaming now?

Who came up with, "If you see something, say something."

http://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something

C'mon Boom. I generally agree with you, but the actions of the teacher and police were outright moronic.

Back in the 80's as a teenager, I was involved with an organization that took kids, built something, then sold it (can't remember the name of the program). Know what we built? Clocks! Should we have been arrested?

 

[MrPickins]

It's a pencil box. Not a suitcase. Look at the plug on the top right. It's no wider than a pencil length.

This.

I keep hearing "suitcase", but that's about the same size as an electronic project box, which is what he was using it as.