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9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stupid-adults-bothering-awesome-kids dept.

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.

6 of 956 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Pirates of the Caribbean? by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly you lack experience with cops.

  2. Re:Reminds you of 2007? by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Funny

    And if I shoved it up McLellan's ass, we could call it a dildo?

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  3. 'Merica by p0p0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Land of the free? Nope.
    Home of the brave? Haha nope.

  4. Re:Stupid people are stupid by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also would have helped if the clock's alarm didn't scream "ALLAHU AKBAR!!!"

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  5. Re:Stupid people are stupid by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    But ... but ... on CSI...

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  6. Re: Stupid people are stupid by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    They wear their bear like a model wears her hair, coiffed and trim

    I dunno, wearing a bear sounds pretty damn manly to me.