... I'd shop that clock in front of 0's podium.
Posted on 09/17/2015 1:10:54 PM PDT by LSUfan
The latest outrage being used to promote the false narrative about unfair treatment of Muslims is the teenager, Ahmed Mohamed, in Irving Texas arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. If you just skimmed the surface and saw the picture of the skinny nerd in the NASA t-shirt in handcuffs it would be easy to see a problem.
And there is one, but it’s not discrimination against a Muslim kid that wouldn’t have happened to a non-Muslim. It’s nanny state, zero tolerance policies that take away the ability to apply common sense to complicated situations. In this case, whether or not to put cuffs on a 14 year old when he brings something to school that causes questions to be asked..
But as far as the other question, was the clock device he brought to school a legitimate cause for concern, the answer is an unequivocal yes. I have built and taught classes on improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and the clock he brought to school is a dead ringer for the trigger used on many of these homemade bombs.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
“President Obama, here is a Muslim student who wants you to check out his clock
I can see it know. Obama is vising this school and this kid approaches with this suitcase and the clock goes off? The Secret Service would have shot him.............
>>This is is an attempt to support the false narrative of Muslims as victims.
Yep. Just like the six praying imams.
Bingo.
tick tock ping
If he wanted to show it off....Why didn't he do it first thing instead of letting it ring.
The kids a damn liar. This whole thing was planned.
A digital clock with a 3 ft cord...yeh, he's brilliant....he's full of cr**.
how come a little white girl was expelled for bringing a small plastic picnic knife in her lunch to spread her peanut butter and jelly? KKK?
I heard a quick quip on MSLSD that the DOJ will open an investigation into the Irving, TX PD.
Same here.
The next school administrator will be less likely to act on a similar device, to avoid the potential for embarrassment.
Love your poster. Here’s what we’re dealing with. There’s an intensive English language instruction program in the building I work in. On any given day, there are 40-50 college aged middle eastern students in the building. A couple times a semester, one of them (never the same one) will, for who knows what reason, leave a backpack on the floor in some hallway or classroom and walk off. No way am I going to pick it up or open it or go anywhere near it. Every time I see one, it gives me a major case of the creeps. I keep going to the people who oversee the program, and they keep telling me it’s a “cultural thing.” I keep saying it’s not healthy to be inured to what looks like an abandoned backpack. I’m sure the people at the Boston Marathon thought it was no big deal either. Until it was.
Makes me wonder if he built it himself, or if someone else in the house built it, or if they were teaching him how to build it.
Makes me wonder if he built it himself, or if someone else in the house built it, or if they were teaching him how to build it.
Ok - I’ve looked at this picture intensely and for the life of me can’t see what time it is.
Yup - the teachers now have the message. If it’s a muslim kid, turn a blind eye, or be hauled over the coals for your hate.
He must have cut a hole in the box.
It would have been less trouble if he had used one of the see-through types of "pencil boxes".
I've never heard of the things until recently. They didn't have those back in the days when the miles long walk to school was all uphill, coming and going, and we had to fight blizzards every day just to get to school and back...
I remember those days! We were too tired to make clocks, or anything else that resembled an explosive devise. But then again, nobody had the desire to blow anyone else off the face of the earth back then.
We will become ‘culturally aware’ of abandoned backpacks eventually. Like the Brits after the IRA bombings a generation ago. My father remarked, having ridden public transport extensively in both countries, that abandoned backpacks in the UK were immediately reported to the authorities and everyone near them moved away. In the US abandoned backpacks were immediately rifled for valuables.
We’ll learn.
The hard way, unfortunately.
Source link to that FR thread has expired, but NBC News link to story covering the burrito boy incident is still accessible;
CLOVIS, N.M. — A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapeños and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," school Principal Diana Russell said.
State police, Clovis police and the Curry County Sheriff's Department arrived at the school shortly after 8:30 a.m. They searched the premises and determined there was no immediate danger.
Looking at that pic, it looks like the guts of a large display alarm clock, and stuck it in a little carrying case.
You can see the power transformer, pc board and ribbon cable to the LED display, and even the battery clip for the 9volt battery memory backup.
Could it be used as a timing device for a bomb? Yes.
What I don’t see is an interface from the alarm output of the clock, and the detonator that would set off a bomb.
... I'd shop that clock in front of 0's podium.
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