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9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb
New submitter bengoerz writes: 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was led away from MacArthur High School in handcuffs and faces possible charges after teachers, school administrators, and police in Irving, Texas mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. The device — a circuit board, power supply, and digital display wired together inside a pencil box — was confiscated by a teacher after the alarm sounded in class. Despite telling everyone who would listen that his device was just a clock, Ahmed was confronted by four police officers, suspended for three days, and threatened with expulsion unless he made a written statement, before eventually being transported to a juvenile detention center to meet his parents.
Clearly you lack experience with cops.
And if I shoved it up McLellan's ass, we could call it a dildo?
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
The issue is that the police and school don't know whether to believe him. After all, if it had been meant to be a hoax bomb and he got caught, this is exactly what you'd expect him to claim. So they have the unenviable task of figuring out whether this kid really did just bring a clock as he claims, or if he meant to use it as a hoax and got caught early. And for that matter whether they need to be concerned with copycats intent on causing a ruckus (as juveniles are so want to do).
You're typed that as you were making a bomb yourself! Don't bother telling me what you were "really" doing at the time, as I know you'd claim you weren't making a bomb because you were caught!
Land of the free? Nope.
Home of the brave? Haha nope.
Also would have helped if the clock's alarm didn't scream "ALLAHU AKBAR!!!"
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
But ... but ... on CSI...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I dunno, wearing a bear sounds pretty damn manly to me.
I've seen enough Looney Toons in my life to know that is generally a bad idea. What if some rascally rabbit comes by and switches the sticks on me.
Time to offend someone
That's because she, the teacher, probably knows exactly who the kid was, his dad, etc. He's been in the news there plenty. So she didn't want to make a carnival like that right then, I'll bet she knew it was fake. When the principal saw who did this, of course he's going to call the police since the entire town is freaked out from their mayor fighting with mosques over Sharia law courts. I'm betting the police decided to "show this kid what's real" "movie bomb? you want to be in a movie? You ever see Pulp Fiction, you punk?" attitude at him. It's law enforcement MO to "scare everyone straight" and use intimidation on everyone they set their sites on. Many law enforcement officers already think their on the "front lines" against terrorists, rioters, targeted killings, and are turning more and more to a "shoot first" policy, don't bother asking questions. All threats must be eliminated, trust no one that doesn't look like you.