9th Grade Muslim student arrested for making a homemade clock fro school project

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a related story, I can't believe the goobers at the White House were on lockdown because of an identified package in Lafayette Park.

http://www.ibtimes.com/white-house-placed-lockdown-over-suspicious-package-report-2100328


The White House makes the Texas school look comparatively sane.

I bet you think posting this makes you look smart, right goober?

What an odd remark! Do you think your post makes you look smart?

Anyway, I do understand that paranoia at the White House is justified because Very Important People live there, while it is not justified in Texas because only goobers live there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the kid had brought a toy gun would you be equally outraged?

Uh, bringing a toy gun is completely different from bringing a homemade clock. A toy gun is meant to look like a gun. A clock is meant to look like a clock. He didn't bring a friggin' toy bomb to school. And if he had brought a toy bomb, yes, we would not be outraged.

Outraged enough to call the police for a pop tart gun? How about a tiny little Lego gun? Thumb and index finger gun?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yet no support to this kid for a pop tart http://www.cbsnews.com/news/examiner-recommends-school-board-uphold-pop-tart-suspension/

It was only a matter of time before someone brought this up. Are you seriously this stupid? The pop tart gun case is nothing like this case. In the pop tart case, the kid broke a rule (albeit a very stupid rule) and was suspended according to the school's standard procedure. This child broke no rules, was hauled out of school in handcuffs, questioned in a hostile manner by obviously xenophobic cops, and suspended on top of it. He was not doing something inane like pointing a gun shaped pop tart. He built a clock. He is a future engineer and we need more students like him. With all the emphasis on STEM and the future of the American workforce, it makes perfect sense for Obama to invite him to the White House.

I didn't know there are rules against pop tarts

[Anonymous]

Not to change the subject from the one at hand ... but I think you're a bit confused. Trayvon Martin - who I assume is the person you are referring to as a "black kid in a hoodie" -did nothing other than walk home from s convenience store. The people we need really to be concerned about are the stupid racist assholes with guns like George Zimmerman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kid had brought a toy gun would you be equally outraged?

Weapons and items resembling weapons are known to be prohibited at school. Homemade electronic clocks are not weapons, nor would it resemble a weapon to a reasonable person.

Truthfully it looks like a bomb. It's in a briefcase even.

Details, details....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I must be missing something. How do you go from it's a clock to it's a bomb? WTF?

Can we have the arresting officer summarily executed?

Because the clock looked exactly like the countdown timer you see on bombs on TV.

Never mind that it lacked the actual part of the bomb that causes damage -- the bomb-explody-part.

Authorities figured there was no reason to bring a countdown timer/digital clock to school, except for the purpose of causing mayhem/confusion. Like he was going to put it under a desk or chair and then scream "there's a bomb" or something like that. Hence the "hoax bomb".

The handcuffs that the police put on him were because maybe using his hands, he could somehow set off the fake bomb that didn't have any explosives? The one they confiscated.

I love you for this. I laughed out loud. This is exactly what I would have called it too!

[Anonymous]

At least he wouldn't have been tried according to sharia law had he actually done something wrong.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kid had brought a toy gun would you be equally outraged?

Weapons and items resembling weapons are known to be prohibited at school. Homemade electronic clocks are not weapons, nor would it resemble a weapon to a reasonable person.

Truthfully it looks like a bomb. It's in a briefcase even.

No, it wasn't in a briefcase. The picture you saw does not allow you to determine the scale so it might look like a briefcase. But, it was a pencil box that was only about 8x5 inches.

And a pressure cooker looks like a pressure cooker. Though I agree with you that the administrators at the school went WAY overboard. Surely there was a teacher there who could have figured this out?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a kid brought a small black suitcase looking thing loaded with wires and circuits and even a clock-and plugged it in during English class-and it made a ticking sound-it would alarm me as a parent, teacher or school administrator. It would alarm me regardless of the kids race, religion or ethnicity. The school has to protect hundreds of kids during school hours-the clock or whatever the fuck it was looked suspicious-it did not look like a clock-but a small black leather , steel framed case with crude wiring and electrical tape. I think the school made the right call-perhaps the police could have questioned the kid more, called in his parents, or even bomb experts to inspect the device/clock. Perhaps this kid is a future engineer with lots of good to give back to the world, perhaps he is a future terrorist who will use his skills for evil. None of us know what his future holds-but I know that if my kid was in class with that kid, and brought that "clock" in (this is not the potato clock or a snap circuit kiddie type looking clock)-I would be happy to know the school took all the right steps as a precaution to protect my child. These are scary times we live in-a black kid in a hoodie, a muslim kid with a crude looking electronic homeade device, a skinhead white kid with a gun.....they can all be just innocent kids-or they can all pose a threat and do great damage to others.

You know what is amazing about this post? None of those descriptions fit the kids who have committed most atrocities at schools.

I think it fits the Columbine two quite well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least he wouldn't have been tried according to sharia law had he actually done something wrong.

What kind of circular hypothetically hypothetical of a maybe possibly hypothetical nonsense is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a related story, I can't believe the goobers at the White House were on lockdown because of an identified package in Lafayette Park.

http://www.ibtimes.com/white-house-placed-lockdown-over-suspicious-package-report-2100328


The White House makes the Texas school look comparatively sane.

I bet you think posting this makes you look smart, right goober?

What an odd remark! Do you think your post makes you look smart?

Anyway, I do understand that paranoia at the White House is justified because Very Important People live there, while it is not justified in Texas because only goobers live there.

The package was found somewhere in Lafayette Park, which is quite large and surrounded by a number of federal buildings. Parks and streets are routinely shut down throughout the city because some absent-minded person left their lunch sitting on a park bench or put down a shopping bag and walked away because they became distracted by a phone call or email. A bomb is neither a joking matter or an opportunity to score political points. Congress devolves into a food fight when someone climbs over the White House fence and you think the Secret Serbice should just ignore a potential threat? Guess what, a Texas middle school seems a pretty unlikely target in comparison to the "President's Park." Once a goober always a goober.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to change the subject from the one at hand ... but I think you're a bit confused. Trayvon Martin - who I assume is the person you are referring to as a "black kid in a hoodie" -did nothing other than walk home from s convenience store. The people we need really to be concerned about are the stupid racist assholes with guns like George Zimmerman.

I agree with you. However once he put his hands on Zimmerman, that was that. Unfortunately.

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http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

looks more like a bomb detonator thing than a clock to me.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

looks more like a bomb detonator thing than a clock to me.....

Looks like something my husband would build to fire his camera while he does high-speed photography. I know if he tried to bring that into, say, traffic court, in a backpack, he would be stopped and questioned.