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Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School

Posted by samzenpus on from the making-some-sense-of-the-senseless dept.

The Grim Reefer writes: In a followup to this morning's story about the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, President Obama has invited the teen to the White House via Twitter. The President tweeted: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great." The Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas sent an email to parents about the incident asking students to: "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior."

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  1. Re:I wonder if they're going to use this as "proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know if you noticed, but there's been a war on law enforcement recently.

    This is a lie. You are a liar.

    a certain movement that feels that police arresting inner city thugs is some sort of social justice travesty.

    This is a lie. You are a liar.

  2. Re:That's not a bomb, it's a clock! by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Only if he put his hands up and/or stated "I can't breathe".

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  3. Re:I wonder if they're going to use this as "proof by bobbied · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    t's time for everybody here to grow up and see this for what it was and is, a simple misunderstanding because a kid was doing dangerous looking things.. He needs to take his toy home and grow up a bit...

    Absolutely not.

    He wasn't doing anything dangerous looking.

    Oh yes it was, I've seen the pictures. The kid actually built something that COULD have triggered an explosive device out of an alarm clock. He may not have been building it to trigger a bomb, but that's EXACTLY what it could have done had it functioned as the kid said he intended. Now it wasn't connected to a bomb, but it WAS intended to function as a trigger.

    I'm telling you, the authorities didn't run off half cocked here, there was probable cause as soon as somebody got the idea that this thing might be usable as a bomb trigger. How that happened is the real question.. Looking at the pictures of the device it is easy to see how it could be interpreted as a home made trigger worthy of a low budget Hollywood movie, so I'm not surprised the police reacted like they did...

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