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

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:It looks more like a bomb than a clock. I think with the atrocities that have happened at elementary, middle, and high schools in America, I believe the school officials were faring on the safer side. If you see something, say something. No pint in taking chances - Muslim or not.

Regardless of what you think it looks like, as we keep posting, nobody thought it was a bomb. Also, there is a big difference between saying something and taking the kid away in handcuffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks more like a bomb than a clock. I think with the atrocities that have happened at elementary, middle, and high schools in America, I believe the school officials were faring on the safer side. If you see something, say something. No pint in taking chances - Muslim or not.

So your response when you think a student has a bomb:

(A) pull the fire alarm and call 911
(B) ask the student what's going on
(C) put it in your desk and tell the student to go to the principal's office and take absolutely no actions to protect other students like, maybe evacuate the students like you would in a bomb threat situation?

[Anonymous]

Ahmed has a clock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks more like a bomb than a clock. I think with the atrocities that have happened at elementary, middle, and high schools in America, I believe the school officials were faring on the safer side. If you see something, say something. No pint in taking chances - Muslim or not.

Have you ever seen electronics learning kits? Are you aware that they are composed of circuit boards and wires and stuff like that?

Here's one:




https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/projects/1020681/photo-original.JPG?v=1405793236&w=1536&h=1152&fit=crop&auto=format&q=92&s=ace1a4261ddc29d6e201dff1bb827f5c

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks more like a bomb than a clock. I think with the atrocities that have happened at elementary, middle, and high schools in America, I believe the school officials were faring on the safer side. If you see something, say something. No pint in taking chances - Muslim or not.

How many actual bombs have you seen?

[Anonymous]

I hope the kid gets a full ride to MIT and, hopefully, his new school has brains above the waist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks more like a bomb than a clock. I think with the atrocities that have happened at elementary, middle, and high schools in America, I believe the school officials were faring on the safer side. If you see something, say something. No pint in taking chances - Muslim or not.

Have you ever seen electronics learning kits? Are you aware that they are composed of circuit boards and wires and stuff like that?

Here's one:




https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/projects/1020681/photo-original.JPG?v=1405793236&w=1536&h=1152&fit=crop&auto=format&q=92&s=ace1a4261ddc29d6e201dff1bb827f5c

"It looks like a bomb" - uh, HOW exactly? Which part of it, in your expert opinion, is supposed to explode? The battery? Nope. The circuit board? Nope. The IC chips? Nope. The LEDs? Nope... Well, what else is there? The air around it? Nope. Your clueless and overactive imagination? Hmmm.... maybe we've found it!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks more like a bomb than a clock. I think with the atrocities that have happened at elementary, middle, and high schools in America, I believe the school officials were faring on the safer side. If you see something, say something. No pint in taking chances - Muslim or not.

Have you ever seen electronics learning kits? Are you aware that they are composed of circuit boards and wires and stuff like that?

Here's one:




https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/projects/1020681/photo-original.JPG?v=1405793236&w=1536&h=1152&fit=crop&auto=format&q=92&s=ace1a4261ddc29d6e201dff1bb827f5c

Here's the picture. Looks like a bomb to you?

[Anonymous]

Look at the stacks and stacks of "briefcases" housing these potential bombs. I mean "electronic learning kits"....

[Anonymous]

If a kid brought a toy gun, or even a pop tart shaped like a gun to school-they get in trouble-the school knows these things are harmless. This kid brought a bomb looking clock into school-even if they knew it was not a bomb-it was against school policy to have it in school. He broke school rules-his engineering teacher told him to keep it hidden-why did he take it out, and plug it in so it beeped? in ENGLISH CLASS? just days after the anniversary of 9/11 I might add-he may be an innocent kid-but he is also an idiot!

[Anonymous]

He was told to hide the clock, but went ahead and showed it off and plugged it in, wtf??? I think he's very smart, him and his family. He came up with a plan and it worked. MIT scholarship, Twitter job, Facebook internship, Silicon Valley attention, a lawsuit that might get him some $$. Yap, very smart. Very well played.

[Anonymous]

He's 14, and a kid taking an engineering class. How was he supposed to know that an electronics project -- a simple act of tinkering, to hook up a battery to an LED display (the numbers of a digital clock) inside a pencil box, would be seen as a bomb??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was told to hide the clock, but went ahead and showed it off and plugged it in, wtf??? I think he's very smart, him and his family. He came up with a plan and it worked. MIT scholarship, Twitter job, Facebook internship, Silicon Valley attention, a lawsuit that might get him some $$. Yap, very smart. Very well played.

It sounds like he put it away in his book bag, but it started beeping, so the teacher asked him what the beeping was. That's when the English teacher saw it and got freaked. It didn't need to be plugged in, it ran on a battery I'm sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a kid brought a toy gun, or even a pop tart shaped like a gun to school-they get in trouble-the school knows these things are harmless. This kid brought a bomb looking clock into school-even if they knew it was not a bomb-it was against school policy to have it in school. He broke school rules-his engineering teacher told him to keep it hidden-why did he take it out, and plug it in so it beeped? in ENGLISH CLASS? just days after the anniversary of 9/11 I might add-he may be an innocent kid-but he is also an idiot!

The pop tart incident was mind numbingly dumb. That aside, toy guns are actually things that look like guns.

It is apparently a matter of some debate as to whether an electronics project involving a battery and some wires, looks like a bomb.

It doesn't look like a bomb to me. It looks like a timer.

Now, timers can be attached to bombs, this is true. But so can a watch. Or a cell phone. Or a laptop. So should all kids who bring a watch, call phone or laptop also be suspended for bringing a Bomb-like object to school?

[Anonymous]

Why was this kid not invited to the White House? Barak seems biased!



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