Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears the administration has weighed in with an invite to bring the cool clock to the WH for a visit. Query whether it will be screened on arrival.

Everything at the White House is screened on arrival.

You seem dumb.

You seem angry about something.

I can calm down a lot more easily than you can get smarter.

Apparently not.

Anonymous wrote:One thing that's fascinating about this story is apparently no one believed that a kid could be so excited about robotics that he made a clock all on his own and wanted to show it to a teacher. I know I'm way overstating this but it really makes schools sound like labor camps rather than places were kids get excited about learning.

That's pretty much what they are.

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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.

One thing that's fascinating about this story is apparently no one believed that a kid could be so excited about robotics that he made a clock all on his own and wanted to show it to a teacher. I know I'm way overstating this but it really makes schools sound like labor camps rather than places were kids get excited about learning.

Anonymous wrote:I did see pictures of the clock on NPR. Not excusing the school, but it did look like a bomb. I think they could have asked the kid more about it in detail thought instead of arresting him.

It looked like a timer. It was lacking the key component of any bomb... the thing that makes it a bomb -- nothing to go boom.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's this thing called law enforcement discretion. From where I sit--and I don't have the facts--it appears that it was not reasonably exercised here, and/or the reaction was heavy handed.

As is happening everywhere around our nation. Same story again and again and again.

I will echo the administration line that most cops are brave folks doing good jobs. But why do so many seem so...dumb?

No decent training?
No college or other training requirements?
An Islamaphobic mayor?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears the administration has weighed in with an invite to bring the cool clock to the WH for a visit. Query whether it will be screened on arrival.

Everything at the White House is screened on arrival.

You seem dumb.

You seem angry about something.

I can calm down a lot more easily than you can get smarter.

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 did see pictures of the clock on NPR. Not excusing the school, but it did look like a bomb. I think they could have asked the kid more about it in detail thought instead of arresting him.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's this thing called law enforcement discretion. From where I sit--and I don't have the facts--it appears that it was not reasonably exercised here, and/or the reaction was heavy handed.

As is happening everywhere around our nation. Same story again and again and again.

I will echo the administration line that most cops are brave folks doing good jobs. But why do so many seem so...dumb?

Obama will not help the poptart child maybe because it's unhealthy food

Anonymous wrote:There's this thing called law enforcement discretion. From where I sit--and I don't have the facts--it appears that it was not reasonably exercised here, and/or the reaction was heavy handed.

As is happening everywhere around our nation. Same story again and again and again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It appears the administration has weighed in with an invite to bring the cool clock to the WH for a visit. Query whether it will be screened on arrival.

Everything at the White House is screened on arrival.

You seem dumb.

You seem angry about something.

Anonymous wrote:This is the result we get when the collective IQ of four Texas police officers is surpassed by that of one 14-year old.

I love you pp.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there more to this story?

Like what? It was a clock.

Maybe the student brought it in as a prank?

Yeah. That's what the school system admin is trying to make everyone believe now. But, um, no. They are just idiots. Bigoted, racist idiots.