USA Boy handcuffed over homemade clock
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A good friend of mine has a brother who has some behavioural issues.
He phoned in a bomb threat to a local polling station round the corner from where he stayed.
When the police took down the door of is mum's flat, they found a "rudimentary explosive device". This later turned out to be an analogue alarm clock with some wires twisted around its feet, running into a shoe box through some holes he'd poked with a pencil, and inside the box was a box of matches and a can of Lynx.
This was in Scotland, and the brother was over 30 years old. So its not just the Americans who can over sell things a bit.
(NOTE - obviously, because of his bomb threat, the police were right to storm the place. But to actually classify his box of bits as a "device" was giving him far too much credit)
He phoned in a bomb threat to a local polling station round the corner from where he stayed.
When the police took down the door of is mum's flat, they found a "rudimentary explosive device". This later turned out to be an analogue alarm clock with some wires twisted around its feet, running into a shoe box through some holes he'd poked with a pencil, and inside the box was a box of matches and a can of Lynx.
This was in Scotland, and the brother was over 30 years old. So its not just the Americans who can over sell things a bit.
(NOTE - obviously, because of his bomb threat, the police were right to storm the place. But to actually classify his box of bits as a "device" was giving him far too much credit)
Hackney said:
Colonial said:
otolith said:
You know, for all the comments about "what does a Muslim/Asian kid expect taking that to school" if they had been racially profiling the kids who shoot up schools, they wouldn't have looked twice at a brown kid.
Quite. 
Geeky, bullied white kids should all be frisked before they ever set foot anywhere near a US school or campus. How's that for racial profiling?
Impasse said:
He's off to live in Qatar. BBC clciky
Confirms my suspicion that his dad put him up to it ..Impasse said:
He's off to live in Qatar. BBC clciky
Where he'll be free to continue his work into making bombs... I mean clocks...jjlynn27 said:
Kid is a genius. Certainly didn't miss out on making full use of opportunities presented.
Are you serious....a genius..? Because he took apart a tandy clock radio and resoldered it into a briefcase..? FFS.
He's a keen inquisitive and mechanically minded kid, and that's great, but a "genius"....well not on the basis of his briefcase clock he aint.
s3fella said:
jjlynn27 said:
Kid is a genius. Certainly didn't miss out on making full use of opportunities presented.
Are you serious....a genius..? Because he took apart a tandy clock radio and resoldered it into a briefcase..? FFS.
He's a keen inquisitive and mechanically minded kid, and that's great, but a "genius"....well not on the basis of his briefcase clock he aint.
Opportunity to do something - kid gets into white house, meets SV people, makes absolute most out of it = genius.
Opportunity to do something - b
hes on internet about hard luck and being unfairly treated and makes fa out of it = not so much.thelawnet1 said:
jjlynn27 said:
Kid is a genius. Certainly didn't miss out on making full use of opportunities presented.
The kid? He disassembled a clock from Radio Shack. He didn't do st.The Dad is the genius here.
jjlynn27 said:
Eh, if you calm down a bit, you'd realize that 'genius' was about part of using available opportunities, not of disassembling 70's clock and putting it into a briefcase.
Opportunity to do something - kid gets into white house, meets SV people, makes absolute most out of it = genius.
Opportunity to do something - bhes on internet about hard luck and being unfairly treated and makes fa out of it = not so much.
That's a fair point. I got nothing but a smack when I was this kid's age for disassembling a sewing machine to construct a rudimentary mains powered helicopter. Apparently it was "dangerous". Parents. Opportunity to do something - kid gets into white house, meets SV people, makes absolute most out of it = genius.
Opportunity to do something - b
hes on internet about hard luck and being unfairly treated and makes fa out of it = not so much.
Impasse said:
He's off to live in Qatar. BBC clciky
His family complained about racism in the US and then they announce they are moving to Qatar of all places, a nation which treats South Asian workers as state-sponsored slaves - nice one. Oh well after reading about some of his political views I think Ahmed's father will fit in well in Qatar.
Impasse said:
That's a fair point. I got nothing but a smack when I was this kid's age for disassembling a sewing machine to construct a rudimentary mains powered helicopter. Apparently it was "dangerous". Parents.
I was given some old telephones to disassemble. Didn't manage to make anything useful out of them.
98elise said:
Oakey said:
I see he wants $15million in damages or he's going to sue the school and his city
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