USA Boy handcuffed over homemade clock
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Got to love the yanks, carry a glock to school but watch those home-made clocks ha ha
Got to love the yanks, carry a glock to school but watch those home-made clocks ha ha
superkartracer said:
http://news.sky.com/story/1553699/muslim-boy-handc...
Got to love the yanks, carry a glock to school but watch those home-made clocks ha ha
Just read that story. You just cant make it up. Got to love the yanks, carry a glock to school but watch those home-made clocks ha ha
The little boys treatment by police and the school is disgusting.
Poor kid. You would have thought that the engineering teacher could vouch for him.
article said:
Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?'
IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.
Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case.
So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.
IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.
Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case.
So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.
article said:
Ahmed’s clock was hardly his most elaborate creation. He said he threw it together in about 20 minutes before bedtime on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front.
He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped for.
“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”
He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.
“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.
“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”
The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.eceHe showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped for.
“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”
He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.
“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.
“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”
The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.
What a ridiculous over-reaction to an obviously bright and curious kid doing what kids do. You have to wonder at what kind of person would think that calling the police was appropriate and what kind of police officer would think that arresting him was appropriate. Look at all 8 stone of him in his NASA t-shirt, is there really any need to handcuff him?
It's nice to see that astronaut Chris Hadfield has tweeted in support of Ahmed, inviting him to a science fair.
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398...
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398...
skyrover said:
This comment has got me wondering if this kid didn't have a history of wind up pranks/trouble-making?
No no, is because brown.sky said:
Ahmed said he was led into a room where five other police officers were waiting, one of whom remarked: "Yup. That's who I thought it was."
rohrl said:
It's nice to see that astronaut Chris Hadfield has tweeted in support of Ahmed, inviting him to a science fair.
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398...
Very cool, I like his style.https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398...
Zoobeef said:
On his video he mentioned using a cable tie to secure it shut as it looked less suspicious than using a lock.
So he knew it looked dodgy and still took it too school anyway.
Maybe it crossed his mind and maybe he dismissed the thought, 'who would think that it was really a bomb - they'd have to be stupid; mmmm, maybe use a cable tie just in case' and thought nothing more.So he knew it looked dodgy and still took it too school anyway.
He doesn't look a very worldly wise 14; not well known for thinking things through at that age at the best of times.
Still a bit of an over reaction - with the benefit of hindsight.
rohrl said:
It's nice to see that astronaut Chris Hadfield has tweeted in support of Ahmed, inviting him to a science fair.
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398...
One of the planet's coolest people using his influence for something extremely positive. We need more like him. Hopefully meeting Cmdr Hadfield will have more of an impact on the lad than his teachers or the police.https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398...
Vipers said:
Better safe than sorry.
What would you guys do if you found a kids pencil box with a digital clock on it, and wires hanging out?
Me, I would probably break the 4 minute mile before calling plod.
One point. Nobody found the clock. The kid showed it to the teacher. Bloody mad world, getter madder. By the tick-tock minute.What would you guys do if you found a kids pencil box with a digital clock on it, and wires hanging out?
Me, I would probably break the 4 minute mile before calling plod.
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