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

[Anonymous]

What part of this is dangerous? (Hint -- not the clock)

[Anonymous]

Which part of this bomb should be banned from schools?

(Hint -- not the cell phone)

[Anonymous]

I won't go to sporting events which have large timing clocks. In fact, I nearly shit myself every time they show the NFL play clock counting down to 0:01 on the TV. Who knows what it might be hooked up to?

[Anonymous]

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



http://nypost.com/2013/01/30/cops-handcuff-and-interrogate-boy-7-for-hours-over-missing-5-family/

He can't invite ALL the victims of bizarre police overreaction. What happened to that little boy was horrible!

[Anonymous]

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



http://nypost.com/2013/01/30/cops-handcuff-and-interrogate-boy-7-for-hours-over-missing-5-family/

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Karma. The boy who was taken into custody was part of a group who repeatedly bullied a classmate because he was overweight and then stole a $5 bill the victim had dropped. I have trouble mustering much sympathy for predators-in-training. Also, it's spelled Barack. You're hopeless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

A little boy got in serious trouble for bringing in a Lego gun from one of those TINY action Lego figures. The gun was maybe the size of a man's thumbnail. How on earth could anyone mistake that as a real gun? The school went WAY over the top on this, yes. The engineering teacher's word should have held. But to justify the idea of a tiny little toy gun or a pop tart gun, while panning this incident exposes the real reason why pop-tart guns matter - indoctrination.

[Anonymous]

I wonder what happened to all his other classmates who brought in their homework projects?

[Anonymous]

Could he have brought the same device through airport security without being stopped and questioned?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

A little boy got in serious trouble for bringing in a Lego gun from one of those TINY action Lego figures. The gun was maybe the size of a man's thumbnail. How on earth could anyone mistake that as a real gun? The school went WAY over the top on this, yes. The engineering teacher's word should have held. But to justify the idea of a tiny little toy gun or a pop tart gun, while panning this incident exposes the real reason why pop-tart guns matter - indoctrination.

#poptartgunsmatter? Good luck with that incoherent nonsense.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Could he have brought the same device through airport security without being stopped and questioned?

How would we know? I can say that my son was recently stopped and questioned by the TSA about his toothpaste, which was then confiscated.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could he have brought the same device through airport security without being stopped and questioned?

How would we know? I can say that my son was recently stopped and questioned by the TSA about his toothpaste, which was then confiscated.

So yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

A little boy got in serious trouble for bringing in a Lego gun from one of those TINY action Lego figures. The gun was maybe the size of a man's thumbnail. How on earth could anyone mistake that as a real gun? The school went WAY over the top on this, yes. The engineering teacher's word should have held. But to justify the idea of a tiny little toy gun or a pop tart gun, while panning this incident exposes the real reason why pop-tart guns matter - indoctrination.

#poptartgunsmatter? Good luck with that incoherent nonsense.

So you admit this is all about 'the feels'?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
A little boy got in serious trouble for bringing in a Lego gun from one of those TINY action Lego figures. The gun was maybe the size of a man's thumbnail. How on earth could anyone mistake that as a real gun? The school went WAY over the top on this, yes. The engineering teacher's word should have held. But to justify the idea of a tiny little toy gun or a pop tart gun, while panning this incident exposes the real reason why pop-tart guns matter - indoctrination.

I don't know about the Lego gun incident. I do know that the boy who got in trouble because of the poptart gun didn't get in trouble because people thought he had a real gun.

"As much as the parents want this case to be about a 'gun,' it is, rather, a case about classroom disruption from a student who has had a long history of disruptive behavior," Nussbaum wrote in his opinion, which was dated June 26, the Washington Post reported. He asserted that the suspension came as a result of disciplinary problems the boy had, and not just because of what he did with the breakfast pastry.

"Had the student chewed his cereal bar into the shape of a cat and ran around the room, disrupting the classroom and making 'meow' cat sounds, the result would have been exactly the same," Nussbaum wrote, according to the Post.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/examiner-recommends-school-board-uphold-pop-tart-suspension/

I just read about the Lego gun incident and agree, that reaction by the school was outrageous and I don't support it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

A little boy got in serious trouble for bringing in a Lego gun from one of those TINY action Lego figures. The gun was maybe the size of a man's thumbnail. How on earth could anyone mistake that as a real gun? The school went WAY over the top on this, yes. The engineering teacher's word should have held. But to justify the idea of a tiny little toy gun or a pop tart gun, while panning this incident exposes the real reason why pop-tart guns matter - indoctrination.

#poptartgunsmatter? Good luck with that incoherent nonsense.

So you admit this is all about 'the feels'?

Apparently you feel like circuit boards look like bombs.

Even the biggest idiot in America knows that a bomb needs explosive. Where is the explosive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

A little boy got in serious trouble for bringing in a Lego gun from one of those TINY action Lego figures. The gun was maybe the size of a man's thumbnail. How on earth could anyone mistake that as a real gun? The school went WAY over the top on this, yes. The engineering teacher's word should have held. But to justify the idea of a tiny little toy gun or a pop tart gun, while panning this incident exposes the real reason why pop-tart guns matter - indoctrination.

#poptartgunsmatter? Good luck with that incoherent nonsense.

So you admit this is all about 'the feels'?

Apparently you feel like circuit boards look like bombs.

Even the biggest idiot in America knows that a bomb needs explosive. Where is the explosive?

I think it was a set up in the part of the boy and his dad. His interviews have been interesting