BS.
Most people toss a busted clock out and buy a new one.
And if you want to build a clock, there’s always Edmund’s Scientific.
AND you don’t put it in a suitcase, bring it to school, plug it in, AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT AS IT BUZZES.
People do. But they shouldn’t. Both the times I fixed that clock not only did it save me money, but time. Taking it apart and fixing it and putting it back together took less time than driving to Target and buying a new one. And it means I got to see how a clock works and can clearly identify everything in the pencil case as standard digital clock parts.
Edmunds Scientific is nice. But WAY more expensive. This was at most a $20 clock and $10 pencil case. And it’s more fun to work it out yourself from scratch.
If you were "prepping" your school to accept something as "normal", then you certainly would:
1. Setup such a device.
2. Bring it to school.
3. Plug it in and "Show" it to the Teacher, and assure Him/Her that you were sensitive to the fact that you didn't want to make it look like a bomb.
4. Don't answer queries about it because your Daddy didn't/couldn't prepare you for an Adult's queries, so suggested to just be "evasive".
5. Disregard directions to put it away until you could take it home, and instead, show it around school so as may people as possible would see you and your "clock" as just a part of school "scenery".
6. Once normalcy of you carrying around your "clock" was reached, it would be simple to actually carry a fully armed "clock" anywhere into the school (say the quad during lunchtime).
If anyone doesn't believe that a 14 year old Moslem wouldn't blow himself (and as many others as possible) up, hasn't been paying attention.
He would be an instant Martyr in the Moslem world.
I fear something very bad is coming to America, and a school full of kids is one of the likely places where it will arrive.
I give discostu the benefit of the doubt, but I don't believe he fully realizes that America's enemies are within our border, that they are relentless, and that they will fully take advantage of our laws and good nature, and sacrifice their children, to destroy us.