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

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:46AM 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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On the flight there... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-16 08:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...the kid will still have to endure the humiliation of the nude body scanners or enhanced grope-down. Kinda takes some of the "nice" out of the gesture, IMO.
Anyone who believes the government does not have a database of the useful biometric identification data (pics) harvested by these nude body scanners, in a post-Snowden world, is being deliberately naive.