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You are missing one key point. RIGHT NOW, the wires are connected to an LED display. Wires can be disconnected and reconnected. It's really not that hard. In fact, it often makes sense to NOT connect something to an "explodey thing" right away as you call it, because...well....ask Bill Ayers....  This is why officers and military types see these things and get concerned - and want to investigate them.

The items you describe above were not taken out of their original cases and put into a pencil case. They are in their original form. [/quote]

Do you know what an IED without an explosive charge and a detonator looks like?  A cell phone.  By your logic, every cell phone in America is a potential "explodey thing" not yet connected up.

This is so stupid I can't even get my head around it.  The boy had a clock. He told everyone it is a clock.  Furthermore, it IS IN FACT A CLOCK!   And your imagination about what it could eventually become based on your knowledge obtained from an extensive DVD collection and/or fear of Muslims does not actually change that.[/quote]

You keep yelling "CLOCK CLOCK CLOCK". Would YOU seriously be able to tell the difference between a homemade clock and a homemade bomb in the heat of the moment? And if you did suspect it was a homemade clock would you play it safe and call the police or deal with the errant clock yourself. If you were a police officer who had a teenage muslin boy accused of bomb making in your custody would you take him at his word or wait for expert opinion?

Btw I already know how you will answer [/quote]

Yes, I absolutely could tell it was a clock from the moment I laid eyes on it.  I expect that his engineering teacher and the cops were able to do the exact same thing.  It's a freaking clock.  I know this is hard for you because obviously you don't know a thing about electronics, but it is a clock.[/quote]

I have never seen the clock in question, except for a grainy photo of what looks like a briefcase bomb.     :oops: 
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I see an LED, a circuit board, another circuit board with a connector for a 9v battery, and a transformer.  All of those parts are in your computer, except the 9 volt battery connector.  It would be a coin-style battery connector.  Sorry if this stuff is confusing to you.  You must get really freaked out going through Best Buy, not knowing for sure what is about to explode.[/quote]

I also see a power cord in the photo. If there was the SAME device Mohamed made sitting randomly in a Best Buy store beeping, that wasn't part of a Best Buy display, you damn well bet someone would investigate it. And police would probably be brought in.[/quote]

Good luck finding someone at Best Buy.  But seriously, even your average Best Buy employee would be able to determine clock circuitry in a pencil box doesn't pose a danger to anyone.  That however is moving the goalpost quite a bit.  Ahmed didn't leave his not-a-bomb-clock sitting randomly somewhere.  He didn't leave it in his locker to beep away.  He carried it around with him because he was excited about his DIY project do he could share it with others and explain what it was.  It's pathetic that he is being shit on because it wasn't quite "homemade" enough for the Islamophobe crowd.[/quote]

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