If we accept the story about “inventing” an alarm clock is made up, as I think I’ve made a pretty good case for, it’s fair to wonder what other parts of the story might be made up, not reported factually by the media, or at least, exaggerated. **************** Good comments at the actual site.
He plugged it in during English class and the English teacher freaked out when it started to make noise.
He’s wearing a NASA shirt and his dad’s an Islamic activist. It’s a set up.
He wasn’t detained because of his “project.” It was his non-cooperation when asked about it.
When you call the cellphone, the LED display lights up, flashing
Surprise, surprise!!!
BOOM!
Clock vs bomb timer - there’s a difference?
That said, he should be deported back to Crapistan, or wherever he came from. Along with his entire family. And none of them should ever be allowed to come back into this country,
One the narrative is out there, it’s too late. Facts don’t matter. Good article though.
The real news is that our president, and the CEO of Facebook are too stupid to know what true technical creativity is.
It takes very little effort or creativity to deconstruct electronics.
The creativity in this endeavor was all social - knowing the reaction to a collection of electronic parts, knowing how to frame it as a discriminatory event with Muslims as the victim, getting the press to react and knowing our muslim sympathizer president to react were a logical extrapolation.
Which goes to show, Obama doesn’t know a “cool clock” when he sees one, or doesn’t see one. The folks slobbering over this kid show their ignorance.
His father is a known activist that has been pushing his islamophobia crapola for years.
It is not inconceivable this was a set up by dad
I took electronics in high school...from 1980-84. One of our first projects was to build a digital clock....from scratch.
It was easy...everyone went by the same design....a 60 hz processor....power supply...and an led with 4 spaces.
When finished...it was the size of a wallet.
This was no science project.
I suspected the same thing - he removed an old electronic clock from its case and put the circuit board and parts in the pencil box. I bet he didn’t have to solder one connection!
When I was a teenager I did a few real things with electronics. I built an audio filter - just two chips and a few other parts, I drew the circuit board. The audio filter went into my tube-type ham radio transceiver. I tapped the filament voltage and converted it to DC to run the filter. With a turn of the switch the unfiltered audio would either go to the audio amplifier tube unfiltered of it would pass through the audio filter first. I installed it all inside the radio’s case. The filter helped me to hear Morse Code signals better without interference. I have fond memories of getting on my bicycle and going to Radio Shack to get parts for this or that.
In any case the "clock device" looks like the components of some inexpensive alarm clock removed from the case and stuck in a pencil box, not in the manner of a science project, or an invention, or to impress some high school "engineering teacher" (who has yet to be identified), but in a manner to create a suspicious looking device with visible electronics and wiring. This is indicated in part by putting the LED display inside the case along with the wiring and AC-powered transformer.
This kid pulsed the system, and his father used (if not helped plan) the scheme to weaken the terrorist profiling efforts of the school and community.
Now Traitorobama, aided by the fifth-column media, has helped to spread this plot to weaken anti-islamoterrorism efforts nationwide, and to further his aims of bringing even more islamoterrorists into this country.
So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation
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Good enough for an invite to the White House.
I have a background similar to the author of the piece. The guy is absolutely right. The kid didn’t “invent” anything. He took out the guts of an old clock.
I will be surprised if Obama follows through on his plan to bring the kid to the White House. The story will quietly go away.
it’s awful dangerous to have an exposed power transformer sitting near the snooze button
It was a 120V device. This could have gone very badly for the kid mainly because it looks like he was woefully ignorant of the safety rules for electricity. In other words, it was a deliberate, stupid prank by an ignorant, stupid kid.
Begrudgingly I must salute the nefarious genius of his con-artist dad: like a perfect key inserting into a well oiled lock, ALL the elements are there for the American GuiGuilt Narrative.
The really insightful, creative flourish was the NASA t-shirt.
My guess is that careful questioning would show the boy knows NOTHING about either electronics or NASA.
He has NEVER before brought any electonics to school, has never before discussed them with his best friends at school.
This is Bonfire of the Vanities at Romper Room.
The Arab dads daily bread and butter has been guilt manipulation and this is only his latest work, Paliwood come to America.
We need a photo skit:
Obama talking to Mohamed w clock in briefcase sitting there:
“You didn’t build that!”
“somebody gave you those parts”
“somebody gave you those instructions from the bomb making manual.”