USA Boy handcuffed over homemade clock

[maxxy5]

http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/rev...

linked also posted above, sorry

Edited by maxxy5 on Tuesday 24th November 12:57

[superkartracer]

FFS , do people really think bombs have huge digi clock displays on the front? , maybe in Bond films

[maxxy5]

14 year old boys probably do

[BL Fanboy]

Totally ridiculous - what was he thinking?

He's taken a double insulated class 2 clock radio and put it in a metal case with no protective earth.

Lets hope he re-instated the insulation and took creepage and clearance into account.

Now that is dangerous.

Thank goodness its 110V over there.

The mind boggles.

[otolith]

superkartracer said:

FFS , do people really think bombs have huge digi clock displays on the front? , maybe in Bond films

THE RED WIRE, CUT THE RED WIRE!

[0000]

montymoo said:

0000 said:

budfox said:

It's blatantly obvious to all and sundry that the kid built a clock to resemble a bomb.

Eh? What about it makes it look more like a bomb than a clock made by a kid?

Do you really think it looks like a Clock? I mean seriously?

Well, yeah, given the massive digital clock face, some very consumer-looking electronics, a wall plug and a lack of any obvious explosive. Do you really think it looks like a bomb? I mean seriously?

[maxxy5]

I don't think anyone actually thought it was a bomb, he was arrested for a bomb hoax.

[Butter Face]

superkartracer said:

budfox said:

It's blatantly obvious to all and sundry that the kid built a clock to resemble a bomb. No ifs or buts.

It looks like a 'hollywood' style briefcase bomb type thing to me.

You can imagine Tom Cruise to be trying to press the correct combination of red/green buttons to defuse it as it counts down.

[montymoo]

0000 said:

montymoo said:

0000 said:

budfox said:

It's blatantly obvious to all and sundry that the kid built a clock to resemble a bomb.

Eh? What about it makes it look more like a bomb than a clock made by a kid?

Do you really think it looks like a Clock? I mean seriously?

Well, yeah, given the massive digital clock face, some very consumer-looking electronics, a wall plug and a lack of any obvious explosive. Do you really think it looks like a bomb? I mean seriously?

I'm not saying it looks like a bomb, what i am saying is it does not look like a fking clock. It looks like a fking mess and an electric shock waiting to happen.

[0000]

I've got news for you then. It is a clock.

[Ganglandboss]

Butter Face said:

superkartracer said:

budfox said:

It's blatantly obvious to all and sundry that the kid built a clock to resemble a bomb. No ifs or buts.

It looks like a 'hollywood' style briefcase bomb type thing to me.

You can imagine Tom Cruise to be trying to press the correct combination of red/green buttons to defuse it as it counts down.

This!

I do believe he was trying to make something that resembled a 'Hollywood bomb'. I do not however believe there was any mischief intended as a)he showed it to the teacher as already pointed out, and b) you would have to be a complete retard to think real bombs actually look like that.

If you were making a bomb for real, you would bear in mind that it needs to be discrete, and it's going to get destroyed. With that in mind, would you a) package together the detonator, explosives and a discrete timer from Radio Shack, or a re-appropriated alarm clock, or would you spend hours constructing a flashy digital timer with huge bright numbers, highly polished perspex and rows of decorative LED strips?

The kid did not make a dummy bomb - he made a film prop.

[AJS-]

The way you've got to look at it is that if Ahmed Mohammed, son of a Sudanese political activist had gone into school with a suitcase 'clock' and blown a class of 30 kids up, that picture had emerged, and it turned out that the teacher just said 'oh that's just eccentric Ahmed who had a crystal set radio last week and funky lights on his bike, then people would be thinking WTF went wrong there?

[0000]

I think it's ok for people to think that. Once in a blue moon, if ever.

Otherwise we end up arresting everyone (and their children) walking round with a fizzy drinks can, or whatever people next think a bomb looks like.

[otolith]

As previously pointed out, if you wanted to racially profile the perpetrators of school massacres, you would be more interested in white kids than brown ones.

[BoRED S2upid]

I just hope he didn't have Mondaine in mind for a future employer as that clock isn't going to fit well with their current range.

[Mr GrimNasty]

otolith said:

As previously pointed out, if you wanted to racially profile the perpetrators of school massacres, you would be more interested in white kids than brown ones.

If a scrawny loner white kid had taken the same contraption into school, the result would have been the same.

Except....... he and his parents would have just meekly accepted that they had acted just a little bit stupidly, given the worries of the day.

Instead of running off to another country and attempting to claim enough wonga to live out the rest of their existence in luxury.

This story is nothing to do with racial profiling or racism, it is about society surrendering to the cult of victimocracy.

[irocfan]

Ganglandboss said:

Butter Face said:

superkartracer said:

budfox said:

It's blatantly obvious to all and sundry that the kid built a clock to resemble a bomb. No ifs or buts.

It looks like a 'hollywood' style briefcase bomb type thing to me.

You can imagine Tom Cruise to be trying to press the correct combination of red/green buttons to defuse it as it counts down.

This!

I do believe he was trying to make something that resembled a 'Hollywood bomb'. I do not however believe there was any mischief intended as a)he showed it to the teacher as already pointed out, and b) you would have to be a complete retard to think real bombs actually look like that.

If you were making a bomb for real, you would bear in mind that it needs to be discrete, and it's going to get destroyed. With that in mind, would you a) package together the detonator, explosives and a discrete timer from Radio Shack, or a re-appropriated alarm clock, or would you spend hours constructing a flashy digital timer with huge bright numbers, highly polished perspex and rows of decorative LED strips?

The kid did not make a dummy bomb - he made a film prop.

a cynic might argue what better place to hide a bomb than in plain sight....

[otolith]

Mr GrimNasty said:

otolith said:

As previously pointed out, if you wanted to racially profile the perpetrators of school massacres, you would be more interested in white kids than brown ones.

If a scrawny loner white kid had taken the same contraption into school, the result would have been the same.

Except....... he and his parents would have just meekly accepted that they had acted just a little bit stupidly, given the worries of the day.

Instead of running off to another country and attempting to claim enough wonga to live out the rest of their existence in luxury.

This story is nothing to do with racial profiling or racism, it is about society surrendering to the cult of victimocracy.

I'm not convinced that it would, but that's by the by - the suggestion was that his race made him more of a risk.

[AJS-]

otolith said:

As previously pointed out, if you wanted to racially profile the perpetrators of school massacres, you would be more interested in white kids than brown ones.

Right. So if Bufford McCormick Jr had brought his packed lunch and his maths homework in in a rifle case and a teacher called the police would he have met the President and claimed $15 million when it turned out to be all innocent?

[otolith]

No. Rather that Ahmed Mohammed, son of a Sudanese political activist is less likely than Bufford McCormick Jr to start murdering schoolmates, so the electronics project belonging to Ahmed Mohammed, son of a Sudanese political activist is not more reason to react than the electronics project belonging to Bufford McCormick Jr.