Posted on 09/16/2015 3:14:15 PM PDT by TroutStalker
A high school student in Texas whose hobby is inventing thought he had a great idea for a project: to build his own clock.
The effort landed him in handcuffs and juvenile detention on Monday, accused of making a hoax bomb.
The detention of Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., near Dallas, generated a national furor even after the police said on Wednesday that he would not be charged as questions arose about whether he was targeted because of his religion.
The episode even came to the attention of the nation’s top leaders, who deplored the treatment of the young man. “Cool clock, Ahmed,” President Obama said on Twitter. “Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.”
Mr. Obama’s staff went on to invite Ahmed to come to the White House for Astronomy Night, to be held Oct. 19, an event bringing together scientists, engineers, astronauts, teachers and students to spend an evening stargazing from the South Lawn. The president’s spokesman held out the encounter as a case study in unreasoned prejudice in an era when the country is fighting Islamic terrorism at home and in the Middle East. Continue reading the main story
Shortly before a news conference Wednesday outside his home in Irving, Ahmed — still wearing the NASA shirt he wore when he was detained — waved to a thick crowd of reporters from the doorway as his family brought out pizzas and drinks for the media. Ahmed said he was considering transferring out of MacArthur High and had indeed accepted President Obama’s invitation
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Except of course it does look like a clock:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=digital+clock+internal&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIg__Ribz-xwIVw5mICh309wwe&biw=1138&bih=708#tbm=isch&q=digital+clock+guts
http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_084/index.php
http://www.instructables.com/id/Flayed-Alarm-Clock/
http://home.fnash.com/Photo%20Pages/pcbuild/PCBuild.htm
Lots of other similar pictures. That’s what clocks look like when you take them apart.
I don’t think you’re being mean. I think you’re being deliberately ignorant.
I’d have said it was a nice kit bash, why’d you bring it in?
Schools have gotten fond of zero tolerance, and it makes for dumb decisions.
You're entitled to your opinion. You're not entitled to your own facts.
And the fact is, this was a politically staged encounter.
And you're not going to convince anyone f your opinion (not your "facts") by ad hominem insults.
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ikv3cvEU2eg/hqdefault.jpg
Oh look, another “clock”.
http://www.warcraftgames.ca/images/props/DCP02422.jpg
And another.
http://www.strangedangers.com/images/content/127952.jpg
That’s just a phone, no worries!
http://www.vidisco.com/sites/default/files/suitcase%20bomb.jpg
That one has speakers.
Another “clock”.
Sorry but that’s your OPINION. Right now the only facts available are that it clearly looks like a clock. We have no information at all that it was any kind of deliberate “encounter”, that’s pure supposition. All we know is he kit bashed a clock, and took it to school and people freaked out.
What part of “I work security and have worn the uniform of a soldier” was so hard to understand?
Notice none of those actually look anything like this kid’s clock. You just proved yourself wrong. Congrats.
Post 146, a pic of another grouping of “clocks” plus a phone and a music player.
All of them as bombs.
Uh, they did.
Those had the splodey bits attached.
I saw the pic... if you look up at the top of the case, there is a HUGE digi... but, it still looks dangerous to me.. :p
I also read what/where his pop is.. tells a lot to those of us who actually pay attention (not many of us anymoore, sadly :/) ..
What part of “appeal to unconfirmed authority” is so hard for you to understand? I just linked you to many many pictures of disassembled clocks that look just like what this kid brought. Meanwhile you linked to a bunch of pictures of bombs that don’t look anything like what this kid brought.
Anotehr one, again with the explosives inside.
Note the “clock” bits in there.
....” he is making all of the “mistreated for his color and religion” claims”....
To be expected as then the parents surely are coaching him.....and likely will at some point sue somebody...that’s what Muslim ‘Victim’ Mentality does. Seeks the stage or press so they can use our laws to uphold and sustain their victim hood status.
They are never concerned of the safety of any but their own.
I WORK SECURITY AND IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE SUITCASE BOMBS WE WERE TOLD TO LOOK FOR.
Too bad it wasn't quite real and didn't quite detonate while he was showing it off to his entire jihadist family.
Yeah, his father would have been so proud!
Note the one poster excusing it at post 132, 135, 138...
.....”many pictures of disassembled clocks that look just like what this kid brought”.....
Who cares what they look like disassembled....people don’t sit around home and take apart clocks to see how they run... but they do know that bombs use timers sufficient enough that if one is in a suitcase it should , and was, investigated further.
Thank you for your posts and your work in security.....I agree with what you have written and reasoned approach to this matter.
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